(Source: CPGB website) Please note that we cannot take responsbility for the work of any of these organisations. Trade unions The Indonesian forestry workers union has put out an urgent appeal for funds for Aceh and North Sumatra. Money donated will go directly to the union in one of the worst-affected areas. Donations can be…
Upholding socialist principles
Scottish Socialist Party members cannot have failed to be affected and concerned by the events surrounding Tommy Sheridan’s resignation as the party’s convenor, the subsequent speculation and ‘analysis’ in the media and the handling of the events by the SSP Executive Committee. During the internal discussions the question of what socialist principles should be guiding…
The role of platforms in the Scottish Socialist Party – Why are the RCN a platform?
Platforms, tendencies, factions – call them what you will – exist in all organisations, not just in political parties. Sometimes they are suppressed (by the controlling and usually undeclared, leadership faction, of course), sometimes they are tolerated and occasionally they are welcomed. This article argues that not only are platforms inevitable, but that they are…
Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 8, Autumn 2004
Issue 8 of Emancipation & Liberation is out now. If you would like to buy this issue or subscribe, contact us. Comments are open, so until articles are online, feel free to discuss the articles below. When they are online you can discuss the article in it’s comment section. The role of platforms in the…
Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 7, Spring 2004
Issue 19 of Emancipation & Liberation is out now. If you would like to buy this issue or subscribe, contact us. Comments are open, so until articles are online, feel free to discuss the articles below. When they are online you can discuss the article in it’s comment section. Editorial, RCN Occupation is not liberation,…
From Theory To Practice
On page one we have printed our Slogans and Aims, but where do they come from and how are they to be put into practice? As a network we regularly review our tactics and strategy against developments as they unfold. The seven points that follow summarise where we now stand today. In this issue of…
Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 5 and 6, Autumn 2003
Issue 5 and 6 of Emancipation & Liberation is out now. If you would like to buy this issue or subscribe, contact us. Blair, Bush and the Iraqi occupation: reality bites, Nick Clarke Leadership and the anti-war movement, Phil Sharpe Ireland’s Good Friday Agreement the end and no perhaps, John McAnulty Beyond Broadswords and Bayonets,…
Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 4, Winter 2002
Issue 4 of Emancipation & Liberation is out now. If you would like to buy this issue or subscribe, contact us. Fight the imperialist drive to permanent war, RCN The oil and military Industries behind Bush, Matt Siegfried Official Anti Racism – sanitised and useless, Mary Ward David the detainee, Jim Aitken SSP & Socialist…
Scottish Socialist Party – Socialist Unity
The Republican Communist Network has submitted the resolution, reproduced here, to be debated at the SSP’s annual conference being held in February. It attempts to get the SSP to take the lead in building and concretising some practical steps to unity with socialist organisations across England, Wales and Ireland. Unfortunately, the Conference Arrangements Committee has…
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…