{"id":15625,"date":"2021-01-29T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=15625"},"modified":"2023-04-01T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T15:35:49","slug":"emancipation-liberation-coverage-of-what-is-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/29\/emancipation-liberation-coverage-of-what-is-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"Emancipation & Liberation – Coverage of What Is Communism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below can be found links to articles published on the E&L website related to ‘What is Communism’?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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1. WHY EMANCIPATION AND LIBERATION –\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Emancipation and Liberation are heady words. Yet it is vital that we give serious consideration to what we stand for, not merely what we are against \u2013 RCN collective statement<\/p>\n

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2. ROADS TO FREEDOM \u2013 OR DID MARX CHANGE HIS MIND? \u2013 Bob Goupillot<\/a><\/p>\n

3. WELL, THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM HAS ARRIVED \u2013 SO, WHAT DO WE DO NOW \u2013 Allan Armstrong for the RCN<\/a><\/p>\n

(This article outlines the immediate relevance of a communist\/republican socialist vision and strategy in the light of the post-2008 crisis of capitalism)<\/p>\n

__________<\/p>\n

Debates within the commune<\/h3>\n

the commune<\/cite> was an openly communist organisation, which included marxist autonomists, dissident trotskyists and republican communists (RCN). Whilst the RCN made a growing impact in the SSP pursuing a socialist republican \u2018internationalism from below policy\u2019, highlighted in two Republican Socialist Conventions, those, particularly from an old Militant background, did not want their understanding of socialism questioned. So, whilst remaining a platform in the SSP to further advance republican socialist politics, the RCN also joined the commune to advance communist politics and hosted three Global Commune conferences in Edinburgh)<\/p>\n

a) THE GLOBAL COMMUNE<\/a><\/p>\n

b) REPORT OF THE FIRST GLOBAL COMMUNE MEETING – Mary McGregor for the RCN <\/a><\/p>\n

c) REPORT OF THE SECOND GLOBAL COMMUNE MEETING<\/a><\/p>\n

d) THE THIRD GLOBAL COMMUNE EVENT \u2013 TRADE UNIONS IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY<\/a><\/p>\n

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DEBATES\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

i) FREEDOM COME ALL YE – WHY WE NEAD A TRULY HUMAN AND DEMOCRATIC COMMUNISM \u00a0 \u2013 Allan Armstrong<\/a><\/p>\n

iI) THE COMMUNIST CASE FOR INTERNATIONALISM FROM BELOW \u2013 Allan Armstrong and Bob Goupillot (RCN), Clifford Biddulph (dissident trotskyist)<\/a><\/p>\n

iiI) THE SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM DEBATE Part 3 \u2013 Allan Armstrong and Bob Goupillot (RCN), Barry Biddulph (dissident trotskysist), Joe Thorne (autonomist marxist)<\/a><\/p>\n

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OTHER ARTICLES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DICTATING TO POWER – Marc Mulholland, Weekly Worker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

TIME, LABOUR AND THE OVERCOMING OF DOMINATION:REFECTIONS ON MARTIN HAGGLAND’S, THIS LIFE, SECULAR FAITH AND SPIRITUAL FREEDOM<\/em> – Peter Hudis\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

DEBATING THE POSSIBILITY OF COMMUNISM, Allan Armstrong, Bob Goupillot and Iain Roberson (RCN)<\/a><\/p>\n

COMMUNISM AND HUMAN NATURE, RCN<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0THE REPUBLICAN COMMUNIST NETWORK (SCOTLAND) \u2013 WHAT WE STAND FOR <\/a><\/p>\n

COMMUNIST RELATIONS TODAY, CAPITALIST RELATIONS TOMORROW Iain Robertson (RCN)<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0EXPLOITATION, OPPRESSION AND ALIENATION: EMANCIPATION, LIBERATION AND SELF-DETERMINATION- Allan Armstrong (RCN)<\/a><\/p>\n

PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE RCN\u2019S \u2018WHAT WE STAND FOR\u2019 – RCN<\/a><\/p>\n

MORE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE RCN\u2019S \u2018WHAT WE STAND FOR\u2019 \u2013 RCN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

NEW RCN STATEMENT<\/a><\/p>\n

WHAT IS SOCIALISM?-ANSWER FROM A HUMANIST MARXIST POINT OF VIEW – Kevin B. Anderson, International Marxist Humanists<\/a><\/p>\n

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The RCN has also published a pamphlet, by Bob Goupillot and Iain Robertson<\/h3>\n

WHY COMMUNISM IS POSSIBLE – \u00a31 including p&p<\/cite><\/p>\n

In addition we have a stock of COMMUNISM – THE EVER PRESENT SPECTRE WITHIN CAPITALISM – The Communist Tendency: Our Analysis and Draft Political Programme\u00a0<\/cite>written by Allan Armstrong and Brian Higgins and published in January 1999 – \u00a31 including p&p<\/p>\n

The two can be bought together for \u00a31.50 including p&p<\/p>\n

These two pamphlets are directly available from the RCF<\/p>\n

see our mail address)
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