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Jul 18 2018

LEFT UNITY CONFERENCE, 20.6.18

Category: Capitalism and Communism,How they are organised,How we organise,Independent class organisations,The crisis on the Left,UK state/British imperialism — RCN @ 6:38 pm

Emancipation & Liberation has been chronicling developments in the Left Unity Party in England and Wales. Steve Freeman reports on the LUP’s recent conference.

LEFT UNITY CONFERENCE, 20.6.18

Left Unity and the crisis of democracy

On 16 June Left Unity held its annual conference. The party has been steadily shrinking since 2016 but it still has over five hundred members. Over twenty five activists attended which tells its own story. It was a significant conference after last year’s nervous breakdown. The demand LU liquidates into the Labour Party was no longer evident in resolutions or speeches.

The main question before conference was the ‘crisis of democracy’ which grew from the politics of austerity. The EU referendum has taken this to a whole new level. It has divided England between the Anglo-British and Anglo-Europeans. An emergency resolution was tabled about the recent Anglo-British mass mobilisation in London by the supporters of Tommy Robinson, the BNP and UKIP etc. Continue reading “LEFT UNITY CONFERENCE, 20.6.18”

Tags: 'Spirit of 45', Anglo-British, Anglo-Europeans, Author: Steve Freeman, BNP, Brexit, British Labour Party, British Trotskyism, CPGB - Weekly Worker, Grenfell Towers, Jeremy Corbyn, Jeremy Cotbyn, Ken Loach, Left Unity Party, Militant Tendency, Republicanism, social monarchism, Socialist Party, Socialist Resistance, SWP, Tommy Robinson, UKIP, Unionism, Workers Power, WRP

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Feb 25 2018

THE END OF THE ROAD – THE COLLAPSE OF THE NORTHERN IRELAND EXECUTIVE

Category: Against Unionism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,How they are organised,Ireland,UK state/British imperialism — RCN @ 10:35 pm

Socialist Democracy (Ireland) have posted two articles the following the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive. These were first posted at:-

http://socialistdemocracy.org/RecentArticles/RecentIrishSettlementFoundersOnTheRockOfLanguageRights.html http://socialistdemocracy.org/RecentArticles/RecentClassPoliticsVersusModernity.html

1. THE END OF THE ROAD

THE IRISH SETTLEMENT FOUNDERS ON THE ROCK OF LANGUAGE RIGHTS

When Sinn Fein collapsed the Stormont executive in early 2017 they put forward a very simple case. The Irish peace process was based on legal documents and international treaties and on a series of agreements and promises that had constantly been broken. If the process and the institutions were to survive it was time to live up to the existing agreements before moving on. This involved resolving state killings, reducing sectarian provocations, and accepting a level of gay rights such as gay marriage and an Irish Language Act. Continue reading “THE END OF THE ROAD – THE COLLAPSE OF THE NORTHERN IRELAND EXECUTIVE”

Tags: 'Hard Brexit', Arlene Foster, Author: Gerry Fitzpatrick, Belfast Agreement, British Labour Party, Cash for Ash, Clause 28, DUP, Fresh Start, gay marriage, gay rights, Gay Rights At Work, Good Friday Agreement, Ian Paisley, Irish government, Irish language, Irish Language Act, Leo Varadkar, Northern Ireland Executive, Peace Process, Save Ulster from Sodomy, sectarian veto, Sinn Fein, Socialist Democracy (Ireland), St. Andrews Agreement, state killings, Stormont, Theresa May, Ulsrer Scots

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Jul 03 2016

AN OPEN LETTER TO LEXITERS

Category: Against Unionism,England,How they are organised,How we organise,Independent class organisations,Ireland,Radical Independence Campaign,Scotland,The crisis on the Left,The EU,The Socialist Republican Break-up of the UK,UK state/British imperialism,Wales — RCN @ 6:50 pm

AN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE LEXITERS* OPPOSED TO A SECOND EU REFERENDUM, BUT TOO NERVOUS TO CALL A DEMO FOR A ‘FREE UK’ TO IMMEDIATELY BREAK WITH THE EU, WORRIED WHO MIGHT TURN UP!

Dear comrades,

June 24th hasn’t quite panned out as you Lexiters claimed it would. All those workers “justified” in supporting Brexit have not followed up their crushing victory over Cameron by taking to the streets or striking against the Tories’ austerity drive; nor does a Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party look particularly likely to replace the Tories in any immediate general election.
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Tags: 'Brit Left', Another Europe Is Possible, Author: Allan Armstrong, Brexit, British Labour Party, Catalunya, David Cameron, European democratic revolution, European Union, Greece, Jeremy Corbyn, Lexiters, London, Northern Ireland, Podemos, Radical Independence Campaign, Red/Brown alliances, Remain, Scotland, Spain, STUC, SYRIZA, the civic nation, the ethnic nation, Ukraine

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May 22 2013

OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR AND THE INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM

Category: Against Unionism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,For Liberation: Struggles against Oppression,For Self-Determination: Struggles against Alienation,How they are organised,Ideology and Religion: Science and Secularism,Ireland,Other Social Struggles,Scotland,UK state/British imperialism — RCN @ 9:50 am

In the following two articles, Jim Slaven of the James Connolly Society shows that SNP government’s Offensive Behaviour Act represents the latest attempt to create a ‘sectarian’ smokescreen to avoid tacking anti-Irish racism in Scotland, whilst the Labour Party’s ‘opposition’ is nothing but the rankest opportunism from a party that has long upheld the UK state’s divisive role in Ireland.

Celtic fans in Glasgow protest against the Offensive Behaviour Act

As another football season draws to a close it is fair to say this one will not be remembered for much of the action on the pitch. While off the field the increasingly shambolic nature of the administration of the national game continues to infuriate and amuse in about equal measure. However as we ponder the 2012-2103 SPL season one thing does stand out as requiring further consideration, namely the way in which football fans are policed in Scotland. This issue has been brought into sharp focus with the consistent and ongoing harassment of the Green Brigade and the excellent job the Fans Against Criminalisation group has done to highlight much that is wrong with the treatment of supporters at the hands or the police and the clubs.

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Tags: Author: Jim Slaven, British Labour Party, Fans Against Criminalisation, Green Brigade, Offensive Behaviour Act, SNP

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