by Jim Aitken Each night last week I have caught his eyes pleading for support and understanding Daily detainees for being himself saying the wrong things that he thought were right Speaking out of turn his essential self expressing himself amid hostile glares As they shout him down detain him further for interfering with assessments…
Official Anti Racism – sanitised and useless
As the Scottish Executive launches its official anti-racism poster campaign, Mary Ward provides an alternative, but more effective, way to beat racism. Scotland one nation many cultures! the official message is emblazoned on billboards across Scotland in the attempt to convince the chattering classes that the Scottish Executive is tackling racism. We can hide behind…
The oil and military Industries behind Bush
Matt Siegfried, a socialist and trade unionist activist from Detroit, examines the motivation behind the US government’s obsession with war against Iraq. This article originally appeared in Fourthwrite. The United States is on the verge of war with Iraq. A section of the Bush administration, reflecting a section of the US ruling class, has long…
Fight the imperialist drive for permanent war
The Republican Communist Network is proud to be part of the SSP, which has consistently upheld the line of opposition to the threatened war on Iraq. It has led the anti-war movement in Scotland on a principled basis. The SSP and the RCN are completely opposed to any war against Iraq regardless of any subsequent…
Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 3, Autumn 2002
Issue 3 of Emancipation & Liberation is out now. If you would like to buy this issue or subscribe, contact us. Unfinished Business: 11 September 1 Year on, Nick Clarke Columbia, the IRA, the US and Manifest Destiny, Matt Siegfried Which route for political, working class unity in Britain, Bob Goupillot Cymru Goch’s Resignation Letter,…
Letters
Bob Goupillot’s article on progress in E&L 2 was illuminating. The nature of the communist society of the future is not a matter of crystal ball gazing but, for materialists, should be a matter of some urgency. It will not develop organically if we just let it grow but is there to be determined and…
No nationalist road to socialism in Scotland
Phil Sharpe (Movement for a Socialist Future) reviews Imagine by Tommy Sheridan and Alan McCombes (Rebel Inc. Edinburgh, £7.99) This article first appeared in Socialist Future magazine This book, by Scottish Socialist Party leaders Tommy Sheridan and Alan McCombes, argues for a nationalist road to socialism. As thousands of Scottish workers face the sack as…
Bookshop Libel Fund
A two-day High Court case was the culmination of an action brought nearly two years ago against Housmans Bookshop in London by a right wing anti-gay litigant who had been referred to as a plagiarist in one sentence in a 136-page pamphlet stocked in the shop. He chose to only sue the shop, not the…
You are the weakest link! SSP Special Conference, the Left and No to the Euro Campaign
Allan Armstrong (RCN), mover of the active boycott motion assesses the SSP Special Conference How the debate was handled The SSP SC on June 22nd, voted by a 4-1 margin to campaign for a no vote when Tony Blair finally decides to set the date for the Euro referendum. An extended morning session was given…
A Healthy Constitution?
Duncan Rowan, the SSP’s North East Organiser, raises concerns at the outcome of the SSP’s Special Conference on the party’s constitution Conferences, special or otherwise, have always struck me as slightly pointless affairs. All that passion, preparation and rhetoric spent upon an audience, 90% of whom arrived that morning knowing exactly how they were going…