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 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,…

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…