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Apr 18 2016

EU AND ‘INTERNATIONALISM FROM BELOW’ – SCOTLAND REMAINS, ENGLAND ABSTAINS

Category: Against Unionism,Capitalism and Communism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,England,How they are organised,How we organise,Independent class organisations,Scotland,The crisis on the Left,The EU,The Socialist Republican Break-up of the UK — RCN @ 8:05 pm

The RCN, like most of the rest of the Left, is having a debate on the EU referendum. This is the second contribution by Steve Freeman of the Republican Socialist Alliance. It has been posted on the RSA blog (http://www.republicansocialists.org.uk). A modified version has also been posted on the bella caledonia blog (http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2016/04/13/scotland-remains-and-england-abstains/)

EU AND ‘INTERNATIONALISM FROM BELOW – SCOTLAND REMAINS AND ENGLAND ABSTAINS

Introduction

The 12 March RSA meeting unanimously adopted the following:
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Tags: Abstain, Author: Steve Freeman, City of London, conservatives, David Cameron, English Question, Eu referendum, Internationalism From Below, Labour, Leave, Popular Front, RCN, Remain, Republican Socialist Alliance, Scotland, SNP, Tory Right, UK, UKIP, United Front

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Aug 20 2015

THE SECRET OF ITS WEAKNESS: RACISM AND THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN

Category: Capitalism and Communism,Combined struggles for Emancipation, Liberation and National Self-Determination,England,For Emancipation: Struggles against Exploitation,For Liberation: Struggles against Oppression,For Self-Determination: Struggles against Alienation,Scotland,UK state/British imperialism,Wales — RCN @ 4:59 pm

We are posting this review by Colin Barker (RS21) of Satnam Virdee‘s book Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider. This book is an important contribution to the debates around race and class. It was first published in the Spring 2015 issue of rs21 magazine. It can also be seen at:– http://rs21.org.uk/2015/03/21/the-secret-of-its-weakness-racism-and-the-working-class-movement-in-britain/

THE SECRET OF ITS WEAKNESS:

RACISM AND THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN

Satnam Virdee has written an important book. It is a history of working-class struggles to win economic and social gains, and to gain access to democracy in Britain, viewed through the prism of ‘race’.

From the start, English and then British capitalism was founded on imperial expansion, drawing under its control large parts of the world, and ‘importing’ into its territory large numbers of people from the lands it conquered, colonised and robbed. Yet many accounts of British working class development are silent on the presence and the impact of migrants, their sufferings and resistance, and the vital ‘racial politics’ that shaped both the major waves of popular resistance and the troughs between them.
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Tags: 'Celtic race', 'Empire Windrush', 'race', 'socialist nationalism', Anti-Nazi League, APEX, Arthur Macmanus, Asians, Author: Colin Barker, British Brothers League, British Socialist Party, British Union of Fascists, Carnival Against the Nazis, Chartism, Chinese, Clyde Workers Committee, Comintern, CPGB, David Bowie, Enoch Powell, Eric Clapton, Henry Hyndman, ILP, Irish Catholics, Irish Home Rule, Islamophobia, James Connolly, Jews, Lenin, Lewisham, London dockers, Manny Shinwell, Mrs Desai, National Front, NationalUnion of Seamen, Notting Hill Riots, Nottingham Riots, Oswald Mosley, Popular Front, Racism Class and the Racialised Outsider, Rock Against Racism, RS21, Satnam Virdee, Scotland, Scottish Labour Party, Social Democratic Federation, Socialist League, South Shields, South Wales, TGWU, Tories, TUC, William Cuffay, William Morris, Willie Gallacher, Yorkshire

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Aug 05 2015

WHAT THE FUK? – Fascist UK, Britannia and the Far Right

Gavin Bowd’s book Fascist Scotland, Caledonia and the Far Right has given succour to unionist opponents of Scottish self-determination. Allan Armstrong (RCN) provides a republican and international socialist critique.

WHAT THE FUK?

Fascist UK, Britannia and the Far Right

1) What is a fascist organisation?

Gavin Bowd’s book, Fascist Scotland, Caledonia and the Far Right, contains a lot of useful material about far right writings, culture and organisation in Scotland since the 1920s. However, Bowd does not define what he means by fascism, nor distinguish it from other forms of reactionary or right populist politics. These often invoke similar chauvinist, ethnic or racist themes. The purpose behind Bowd’s lack of clarity over the political basis of fascism only emerges gradually.
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