by Jim Aitken Do not call me Ishmael or anything quite as grand but call me instead a radge or a schemie or a scaff a bam, a ned, yob or chav extend the vocabulary and label me as other poke fun at my accent and clothes blame me for all that goes missing for…
Equal partners in the struggle
Catriona Grant explains why the fight for liberation must include the struggle against our emotional internalisation of constraints and beliefs Linda Gibson’s article in the first Emancipation and Liberation enthralled me. She was able to eloquently express many of my thoughts and feelings. It has often perplexed and confused me why Marxists are meant to…
Juvenilization, the family, and the capitalist state
Kathy Perlo argues that young people must be genuinely valued by society, and should neither be used as scapegoats, nor defined as non-citizens. To accustom children (those below puberty) to subordination beyond the natural needs of care and protection, they must be defined as non-citizens; to prepare young people (those above puberty but still requiring…
British Nationalism and the rise of Fascism
While the Anti Nazi League concentrates its effort on fighting German Nazis, fascism has very British roots. In a shortened version of an article he wrote while in the Republican Workers’ Tendency, Chris Ford shows the link between loyalism and fascism. Chris is currently on the Editorial Board of Hobgoblin. The British roots of fascism…
Northern Ireland – Is the peace process under threat? No, but the working class is!
Reprinted from Class Struggle Jul/Aug 2002 (bi-monthly – Workers’ Fight – Britain) In Mid-May, almost exactly one year after the Catholic Holy Cross girls’ school in North Belfast’s Ardoyne was singled out as a target by UDA–UFF gangs, the mostly Catholic Short Strand area, in East Belfast, came under attack from the UVF. This time,…
Republicans ‘celebrate’ the jubilee
Allan Armstrong reports on how republicans around the UK expressed their disloyalty to the Crown So how did the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations go from a republican perspective? A quick survey of the three and a bit nations making up the UK shows quite a wide variation in response. Undoubtedly the best protest and republican celebration…
Which route for political, working class unity in Britain?
We are publishing the statement by Cymru Goch because it highlights some of the problems hampering the struggle for working class unity in Britain. Bob Goupillot outlines his personal reflections on these problems and suggests a possible way forward. My view is that all individual socialists and socialist organisations should be inside the SSP or…
Cymru Goch’s Resignation Letter
To Julian Goss, Welsh Socialist Alliance Secretary Despite being a founder member of the Welsh Socialist Alliance, Cymru Goch will not be re-affiliating to the WSA for a number of reasons. Firstly, the WSA has failed to develop as an alliance in terms of attracting non-aligned members who put the alliance before party affiliation. For…
Successful republican festival and victory at free speech trial
The following report comes for Y Faner Goch, issues no 134 and 135 More than 300 people attended the three day Stuff the Monarchy festival organised by Cymru Goch in Pontypridd’s Clwb y Bont over the Jubilee bank holiday. Those attending were a broad mix of republican, socialists and greens from across Wales and enjoyed…
Colombia, the IRA, US and Manifest Destiny
Matt Siegfried, a socialist and trade unionist activist from Detroit, looks at the implications for the US government’s Plan Colombia This article first appeared in Fourthwrite No. 10, Summer 2002. The ruling class of the United States has long viewed everything south of the Rio Grande as its exclusive domain. The United States became a…