Mike Davies reports on Welsh Republicans’ preparations for the Royal Visit: Jiwbili ych a fi! Welsh Socialist Republicans have been at the forefront in building a coalition against the Queen’s Jubilee Jamboree in June. Cymru Goch, Earth First! activists, leading trade unionists and socialists have come together to form an ad hoc group called Stuff…
Hamish Henderson (OBE declined) 1919-2002
Hamish Henderson, folklorist, poet, Scottish internationalist and socialist died on March 3rd this year. In the year of the golden jubilee, it is worth remembering that Hamish turned down an OBE in 1983. Whilst Scotland’s semi-official nationalist anthem, Flower of Scotland, is sung by Princess Anne at Scottish rugby matches, Hamish’s internationalist anthem, Freedom Come…
Jubilee: Ireland
John McAnulty remembers the Silver Jubilee celebrations, 25 years ago One of the unfortunate things about being long in the tooth is that you occasionally have to confess to being present at historical events. I have to confess to being a political activist at the time of the last jubilee, 25 years ago. In fact,…
How republicans around Britain and Ireland are the ‘celebrating’ jubilee
Socialist Alliance in England It is the queen’s jubilee time and the Socialist Alliance in England supports all republican activities which seek to expose the lack of democracy at the heart of British society. The jubilee does not end on June 4. That is just the beginning of the monarchist jamboree up to the 50th…
Jenin
by Jim Aitken Jenin, o Jenin dust, all over the camp, has settled like a shroud and this was supposed to fight the terror and deliver whatever with Apache helicopters themselves recalling an earlier ethnic cleansing raining down missile and flame what havoc was wrought here in refugee impoverishment insults the whole of humanity but…
Hooray for Hollywood
Steve Kaczynski looks at September 11, Hollywood and the portrayal of war and terrorism The cinema, like other forms of entertainment and the media, is a powerful means of reflecting what goes on in society. It, like other forms of entertainment and the media, is also used by the powers that be to shape public…
Palestine: After Jenin – Ethnic Cleansing?
Hanna Khamis the myths of the Oslo Process and why it has failed to deliver peace or economic and social gains to the Palestinians As Israeli tanks and bulldozers bury any lingering hopes of an early peace settlement in the rubble of West bank towns, it is legitimate to ask, why? What can the Israeli…
How the civilised US treats prisoners of war
Matt Siegfried, a socialist and trade unionist activist from Detroit, looks at the fate of prisoners of war held at Guantanamo Bay. This article first appeared in Fourthwrite No. 9. The United States is the country with more people locked up, both as a percentage and in absolute numbers, than any other country in the…
Resolution passed at Scottish Socialist Party Conference March 2002
European Socialist Alliance The SSP supports the creation of a broad-based European Socialist Alliance. Therefore, it calls upon the incoming national office-bearers to contact all those independent socialist parties/alliances in Europe to organise a joint conference, putting forward the following proposals for discussion: a) joint work and mobilisations directed against the EU leaders’ support for…
Another World Is Possible
Resistance to neo liberalism, war and militarism For peace and social justice Call of social movements at the second World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jan 31st – Feb 5th, 2002 Profor Progress 1. In the face of continuing deterioration in the living conditions of people, we, social movements from all over the…