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…
Unfinished Business: 11 September, one year on
Twelve months after the attacks on New York & Washington, Nick Clarke examines what their impact has been internationally It is now one year since two passenger jets were piloted into the World Trade Centre’s Twin Towers, while another was diverted into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. The images of the attack…
Irish Socialists appeal for support in stand against sectarianism
This is a statement issued by Belfast International Socialists and Socialist Democracy We, the undersigned, wish to declare our absolute opposition to the growing bigotry and sectarianism within society in the North of Ireland as shown by events at Holy Cross, the Short Strand and countless other incidents. Far from being the dying gasp of…
Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 2, Summer 2002
Comments are open, so feel free to discuss the articles. The Euro Referendum: The case for an active boycott, Allan Armstrong Statement from the Conference of the European Anti-Capitalist Left, European Anti-Capitalist Left Another World Is Possible, World Social Forum Resolution passed at Scottish Socialist Party Conference March 2002 Palestine: After Jenin – Ethnic Cleansing?,…
Correspondence Red
Allegiance In this year of Jubilee and celebration of monarchy, a lot will be said about allegiance – allegiance to Queen and country. It slips off the tongue quite readily but carries a heavy message. Allegiance is a powerful emotional attachment to a cause or person or place and experiencing and expressing this deeply felt…
Roads to Freedom or did Marx change his mind?
Karl Marx Favourite maxim – Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (Nothing human is alien to me) Favourite motto – De omnibus dubitandum (Doubt everything) Bob Goupillot examines Marx’s search for new paths to social transformation Who will mend the hole in the ozone layer? Who will reverse global warming? It is quite clear that…
Women’s Liberation and Socialism
Mary Ward reviews Women’s Liberation and Socialism by Gill Hubbard and Angela McCormick published by the Socialist Workers’ Platform, part of the Scottish Socialist Party. £1.50 I started reading the above pamphlet with some trepidation. It was produced in the midst of a heated, divisive and misleading debate on whether or not to adopt a…
The Socialist Alliance in England
Dave Spencer has been a committee member of Coventry Socialist Alliance since 1992. Before its abolition in 1986, he was a Labour Councillor on West Midlands County Council. Here he assesses the way forward for the SAs in England. The SA in England is a hybrid organisation – neither a party nor a federation. On…
Republican Forum: A way forward for republicanism
This article appeared in The Starry Plough (Dec. 2001/Jan. 2002) the paper of the Irish Republican Socialist Party It was a momentous day for Republicanism in Ireland. Tuesday the 23rd of September 2001- the day the Provisional IRA decommissioned weapons in order to save not only the Good Friday Agreement but also the Stormont Assembly.…
Empress Brown’s Jingo Jubilee
Terry Liddle (South London Republican Forum) describes the opposition to Victoria’s Golden Jubilee celebrations The year 1887 opened with rioting by the unemployed in Norwich. Two members of the Socialist League were arrested and later imprisoned. The Socialist League was a split by members including Eleanor Marx, from the Social Democratic Federation, Britain’s first Marxist…