{"id":23859,"date":"2023-04-21T21:15:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T21:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=23859"},"modified":"2023-05-16T17:14:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:14:56","slug":"papering-over-the-cracks-covering-up-the-tracks-a-review-of-scotland-after-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/21\/papering-over-the-cracks-covering-up-the-tracks-a-review-of-scotland-after-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Papering over the cracks, covering up the tracks : a review of Scotland after Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Allan Armstrong has written an extended review<\/a> <\/strong>of \u2018<\/strong>Scotland After Britain\u2019, written by James Foley and Ben Wray, with Neil Davidson, entitled Papering over the Cracks, Covering up the Tracks.\u00a0 The Contents, the last chapter and Conclusion can be read here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PAPERING OVER THE CRACKS COVERING UP THE TRACKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

A review of Scotland after Britain\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by James Foley and Ben Wray with Neil Davidson<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

a) Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

b) A review of Scotland After Britain <\/em>(SaB<\/em>) compared to Breaking up of the British State <\/em>(ButBDS<\/em>) <\/strong><\/p>\n

c) SaB <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Chapter 3, The Emergence of a Movement for Scottish Independence 2012-14<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

d) The emergence of openly Right accommodationist forces, their attempt to terminate RIC and further moves to the Right<\/strong><\/p>\n

e) Examining the theoretical underpinnings of SaB<\/em>\u2019s politics <\/strong><\/p>\n

f) \u2018Brexit\u2019 – papering over the cracks <\/strong><\/p>\n

g) Republicanism – covering up the tracks<\/strong><\/p>\n

h) Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Republicanism – covering up the tracks<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is considerable dishonesty in the author\u2019s Conclusion: The Two Souls of Nationalism.<\/em>[1]<\/a> Using Hal Draper\u2019s, The Two Souls of Socialism <\/em>as a basis, the authors announce their support for Popular Sovereignty.[2]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Now this concept was first introduced to the November 30th<\/sup>, 2012, RIC conference by socialist republicans.\u00a0 A debate was organised between myself (from the affiliated RCN), a member of Republic and Neil Davison, then a dissident SWP member. \u00a0He was chosen by ISG-S to promote their viewpoint.<\/p>\n

Allan argued for republicanism as the sovereignty of the people up against the UK\u2019s sovereignty of the Crown-in-Westminster and all its anti-democratic Crown powers. \u00a0This was widely publicised on the Left by bella caledonia<\/em>.[3]<\/a>\u00a0 The Republic speaker argued for a much more limited concept of republicanism as opposition to the monarchy in favour of an elected head of state (whether that be the UK or Britain – a distinction he and many others on the Left, often do not appreciate). \u00a0Neil however, argued that promoting republicanism was a diversion from the need to build support for a socialist revolution, following which the queen would be removed.\u00a0 Like Republic his view of republicanism was anti-monarchist.\u00a0 Although, in true SWP style, \u2018Down with the Royalty\u2019 could be raised at particular royal jamborees, to emphasise their highly privileged lifestyles compared to the working class facing austerity. \u00a0But after that, on to the next campaign.<\/p>\n

At this point, the republican socialist concept of the \u2018sovereignty of the people\u2019 was largely that – a concept.\u00a0 However, as the \u2018IndyRef1\u2019 campaign took off, with RIC and other autonomous \u2018Yes\u2019 campaigns organising the length and breadth of Scotland and beyond, the sovereignty of the people became a reality counterposed not only to the sovereignty of the UK, but the SNP leadership of \u2018Yes Scotland\u2019. \u00a0This practical exercise of the sovereignty of the people contributed to the Edinburgh RIC motion which was overwhelmingly passed at the well-attended National Forum held in Glasgow on May 17th<\/sup>, 2014.<\/p>\n

AFTER A \u2018YES\u2019 VOTE ON SEPTEMBER 18th<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organisation after September 18th<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. A \u2018Yes\u2019 vote on September 18th<\/sup>represents an expression of \u2018the sovereignty of the people\u2019. \u00a0Political arrangements based under the Westminster principle of the sovereignty of the Crown in Parliament are no longer valid.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. The official \u2018Yes\u2019 campaign will be ended after September 18th<\/sup>. RIC should aim to bring people together soon as possible after this date. The aim would be a bigger convention than the last two RIC conferences.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Suggested organisations to be involved could include existing local \u2018Yes\u2019 groups, other \u2018Yes\u2019 campaigning organisations, organisations which had not been able to take a \u2018Yes\u2019 position but may now want to become involved in the making of a new Scotland, e.g. trade unions, community organisations, specific campaigns, e.g. disability.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. On this basis regular wider forums (people\u2019s assemblies) would be held in as many areas as possible to influence the negotiating and constitution-making processes.<\/strong>[4]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    From this point, republicanism as the sovereignty of the Scottish people overtook the rather milk-and-water, anti-royalist RIC principle, which had been conceded by the ISG-S to bring the SSP on board \u2013 A modern republic for real democracy<\/strong>. \u00a0Both the ISG-S and SSP were quite happy to have this relegated to a third principle, behind the first principle:- For a social alternative to austerity and privatization<\/strong>.\u00a0 This was seen to be the heart of the Left social democratic approach, which inspired those from an SWP or ex-SWP background or an old Militant background (but now in the SSP). \u00a0The second principle, Green and environmentally sustainable,<\/strong> was designed to win the support of the Scottish Greens.<\/p>\n

    However, as more and more RIC members, and indeed many others in the wider \u2018Yes\u2019 movement, became increasingly aware of the dirty tricks of the UK state, then the need to prioritise a constitutional challenge became much more widely appreciated.\u00a0 And after May 17th<\/sup>, 2014, National Forum, this was no longer the thinking of just one RIC affiliated organisation, the RCN, or indeed other republican socialists in RIC, but of the RIC nationally.<\/p>\n

    But it appears as if ISG-S members were just carried along on the wave of Scotland\u2019s rising Democratic Revolution. \u00a0This was shown when they side-lined RIC to make their own electoral challenge in the form of RISE in 2016.\u00a0 At a preparatory Scottish Left Project meeting, the RCN argued for the \u2018R\u2019 in the proposed new organisation\u2019s name, RISE, to stand for Republicanism. \u00a0Instead, the ISG members argued that it should stand for Respect (a name with an inauspicious background in Galloway\u2019s vanity party).\u00a0 The SSP delegate said he thought \u2018R\u2019 should stand for Republicanism too. \u00a0But he wasn\u2019t prepared to push it, since his role at the meeting was to ensure that Colin Fox became RISE\u2019s lead candidate for Holyrood\u2019s Lothian list.<\/p>\n

    So, with regard to republicanism, ISG-S had retreated back not only from the May 14th<\/sup> RIC s National Forum \u2018sovereignty of the people\u2019 principle, but even from the SSP\u2019s milk-and water, anti-monarchist principle.\u00a0 This was a return to Neil Davidson\u2019s \u2018abolish the monarchy after the socialist revolution\u2019.\u00a0 But ISG-S clearly understood this was not going to happen in any immediate future.\u00a0 In effect, such thinking acted as a Left cover for a constitutional tailing of the SNP in the here and now.<\/p>\n

    But following Brexit and the complete refusal of the Tory government to make any concessions acknowledging Scotland\u2019s decisive rejection (as they initially made for Northern Ireland with a lower \u2018Remain\u2019 vote), the clamour for a new referendum grew again in Scotland. \u00a0Massive AUOB marches gave expression to this pent-up feeling. \u00a0As has already been shown, many people, including a younger generation, wanted to provide this with a political focus by reviving RIC.\u00a0 When RIC was eventually reformed on January 29th<\/sup>, 2022,[5]<\/a> its first two linked principles were based on the May 14th<\/sup>, 2014, National Forum decision – For a democratic, secular, socially just and environmentally sustainable, Scottish Republic<\/strong> and Action based on the sovereignty of the people not the UK Crown, leading to the setting up of a Constituent Assembly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Another of RIC\u2019s new Six Principles is worth considering.\u00a0 Principle 4 is Equality and opposition to discrimination on grounds of sex, gender, sexuality<\/u>, race, ethnicity, religion, disability or age.\u00a0 <\/strong>The issue of discrimination against transgendered people hardly arose in the rainbow alliance of \u2018IndyRef1\u2019.\u00a0 And when ISG-S opted to set up RISE, the opportunity existed to be ahead of the game over trans rights.\u00a0 Even Cameron\u2019s Conservative government was prepared to consider moves in this direction, so it wasn\u2019t seen as too controversial for the forthcoming election.\u00a0 Furthermore, the SNP hadn\u2019t yet openly adopted such a position.<\/p>\n

    So, at RISE\u2019s pre-election conference, Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) was invited to propose support for transgender rights in the Holyrood 2016 manifesto.\u00a0 This was seconded by a transgender RCN member. \u00a0However, later the SNP government was to take TIE on board. \u00a0But as politics slipped to the Right, some of the original ISG-S became critical of what they now termed \u2018identity politics.\u2019\u00a0 They refused to fight \u2018culture wars\u2019, leaving this arena of struggle to the Hard and Far Right.\u00a0 They also adopted \u2018anti-woke\u2019 language, with its origins on the US AltRight.\u00a0 Thus, with 20 European (including the Republic of Ireland), Asian and Latin American states having adopted gender recognition reform, conter <\/em>decided instead to adapt to the political trajectory of Johnson\/Sunaks\u2019 \u2018Brexit Britain\u2019, Trump\u2019s USA and Putin\u2019s Russian Federal Republic.<\/p>\n

    The fifth new RIC principle is Solidarity with the struggles for workers\u2019 rights, democracy and self-determination, based on internationalism from below<\/strong>. \u00a0This acknowledges the need for \u2018internationalism from below\u2019, also something that had become deeply embedded in RIC during \u2018IndyRef1\u2019. The RCN has been given responsibility for organising the \u20184 nations under the UK\u2019 session at the 2013 RIC conference. [6]<\/a>\u00a0 But RIC\u2019s \u2018internationalism from below\u2019 solidarity organisation involved the ISG-S, Neil Davidson and RCN. Speakers were sent to, or invited from, England,[7]<\/a> Wales,[8]<\/a> Ireland (\u2018North\u2019 and \u2018South\u2019)[9]<\/a>, Catalunya, Euskadi, Quebec and Greece. Edinburgh RIC hosted a Welsh delegation in the last days of the \u2018IndyRef1\u2019 campaign. \u00a0Local RIC groups also provided solidarity to Palestine, Kurdistan and Catalunya.[10]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0Indeed, RIC made such an impact, that the STUC joined its rally in Glasgow on July 2nd<\/sup>, 2015, in Solidarity with Greece facing the draconian EU imposes Austerity.[11]<\/a>\u00a0 This was the largest demo in the UK over this issue.<\/p>\n

    The SaB <\/em>authors\u2019 approach to \u2018Internationalism from below\u2019[12]<\/a> is similar to their attempt to appropriate \u2018Popular Sovereignty\u2019.\u00a0 They write as if they alone had suddenly come up with the concept.\u00a0 This is particularly sad, since (unlike the republican sovereignty of the people) ISG-S members did very much contribute to RIC\u2019s \u2018internationalism from below\u2019 practice. \u00a0So, although \u2018internationalism from below\u2019 began as an RCN concept, it was taken up by others, including the ISG-S.\u00a0 It became the shared practice of RIC. \u00a0But this wider history is ignored in SaB<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    SaB<\/em> makes some supportable economic proposals in Popular economic sovereignty[13]<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0 Commonweal has also done a lot of work and has produced Sorted. \u00a0<\/em>Adam Ramsay(openDemocracy<\/em>) has made some good policy proposals in a recent article for bella caledonia<\/em>.[14]<\/a> The real issue here, though, is the question of agency.\u00a0 Are these proposals directed at the SNP or Alba leaderships to take up and implement in their own bureaucratic fashion, or does their implementation involve and give power to wider democratic forces?<\/p>\n

    Back in 2015, when the public face of the Scottish Left Project encouraged wider debate, the RCN too made some economic, social and political proposals.[15]<\/a> \u00a0But these economic and social proposals were just that, a contribution to a wider debate.\u00a0 Furthermore, other widely based organisations, which had developed considerable experience in particular fields, e.g. over land reform and environmental degradation, were seen to be vital in policy formation.\u00a0 However, a linked RCN contribution also emphasised the centrality of democratic involvement in economic and social reforms, but just as important, within the campaigning organisations and parties promoting them[16]<\/a><\/p>\n

    So, what are we to make of SaB<\/em>\u2019s proposal of \u201cestablishing a republican constitution\u2026 maximising citizen involvement in the construction of the state through a democratic constitutional convention\u201d? – a constituent assembly – RIC\u2019s May 17th<\/sup>, 2014, proposal.\u00a0 Once again, the overriding thing is that the organisations (e.g. RIC) and principal political organisations involved must themselves be models of democratic practice.\u00a0 \u00a0But in this, as we have seen, the old ISG-S, RISE and now conter<\/em> have been glaringly lacking. \u00a0You may need to break a few eggs to make an omelette, but you\u2019ll never make an omelette out of hot air.<\/p>\n

    SaB<\/em>\u2019s attempt to rewrite history amounts to \u2018covering up the tracks.\u2019\u00a0 This is just part of a wider attempt to roll back Scotland\u2019s 2014 Democratic Revolution. \u00a0However, with the authors still young enough to advance their careers, and looking to political forces from above, rather than from below, they could well become the latest wave of \u2018young fogeys\u2019.\u00a0 However, it is not Jacob Reese-Mogg\u2019s earlier \u2018new fogey\u2019 dress style and nostalgia for the \u2018great days of Empire\u2019 they want to take on. \u00a0That is passe. \u00a0Adopting the edgy Alt-Right use of language and a nostalgia for the post-1945 Social democracy and Campist politics are for today\u2019s \u2018young fogeys\u2019.<\/p>\n

    But such a makeover means airbrushing from history, the ISG-S\u2019s own earlier positive contributions, as well as those of many others in RIC. An upturn in class struggle, beyond the control of social democracy (the Labour Party and the SNP) and trade union bureaucracy, could still pull some back, just as Scotland\u2019s Democratic Revolution did.\u00a0 But for that to be consolidated, this will mean looking again at the past record of parties, autonomous organisations and international organisation.\u00a0 Such renewal needs to be on a very different basis, based on genuinely democratic methods.[17]<\/a>\u00a0 But, just as important is the creation of a wider democratic culture.<\/p>\n

    This will mean assessing our struggles, as they develop, not by how they measure up to some externally imposed \u2018internationalism\u2019, whether that be British Labourism, the official Communist Third International, or the various sect-internationals. \u00a0It also means challenging Scottish nationalism.\u00a0 Scotland has its own deeply rooted \u2018Internationalism from Below\u2019 traditions, shown by the United Scotsmen in the 1790s, the 1820 general strike and insurrection, the Highland Land League\/Scottish Land Restoration League in the 1880s, John Maclean\u2019s Scottish workers\u2019 republicanism from 1920, and indeed the \u2018IndyRef1\u2019 campaign, which could be seen as part of wider international challenge, with its focus in the Arab Spring, the Indignados in Greece and Spain, and the demands for the exercise of national self-determination in Catalunya and Euskadi.<\/p>\n

    Such resistance goes along with an accompanying vibrant cultural expression. \u00a0And this can also become a significant arena for retaining and retrieving the memory of struggles, which get marginalised after political setbacks and defeats. \u00a0Artists and creatives have contributed to the revived RIC\u2019s new sixth principle. \u00a0Support for Scotland\u2019s artistic and cultural revival and all its languages<\/strong>. \u00a0This builds on the National Collective and its \u2018Yestival\u2019 tour during `IndyRef1\u2019 and on such cultural figures such as Hamish Henderson (OBE declined).<\/p>\n

    Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

    This review has not been shoehorned into something acceptable to Left academia and is unlikely to be acknowledged there.\u00a0 But it is hoped that others outside academia\u2019s closed walls, and some who, needing a job, know they are trapped there but seek a life and politics beyond, could engage with the arguments raised in this review. \u00a0Neil Davidson provided a good example of this method of working. \u00a0The other SaB <\/em>authors invoke his name but not his practice.\u00a0 Meanwhile, as well as providing solidarity to all those resisting every aspect of exploitation and oppression, we can also take part in the cultural celebration which challenges the doom mongers on the Left.<\/p>\n

    Freedom Come All Ye!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    References<\/strong><\/p>\n

    [1] \u00a0 \u00a0 SaB<\/em>, p. 209-33.<\/span><\/p>\n

    [2] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SaB,<\/em> p.217<\/a><\/p>\n

    [3] \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0htt<\/u>ps:\/\/bellacaledonia.org.uk\/2012\/11\/20\/radical-indy-conference-10-genuine-self-determination-means-acting-like-republicans-now\/<\/u><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

    [4]<\/a><\/u>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0http\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/01\/a-republican-perspective-is-important-for-sco<\/a>tlands-future<\/a>\u00a0<\/u>– Appendix<\/span><\/p>\n

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    [5] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 https:\/\/bellacaledonia.org.uk\/2022\/02\/05\/ric-revived\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

    [6]<\/u>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 https\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/25\/2nd-ric-conference-after-the-uk-the-future<\/a>\u00a0of 4 nations<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

    [7] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0https\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/to-scotland-with-love-a-report-from-the-london-says-yes-rally-on-september-6th\/<\/u><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

    [8] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 https\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/wales-and-scottish-independence-leanne-wood-president-of-plaid-cymru\/<\/u><\/a> and<\/strong> http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/19\/messagr-from-edinburgh-ric-to-the-go-for-it-rally-at-cardiff-on-september-13th<\/a>\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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    [9] \u00a0 \u00a0https:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/ireland-and-scotland-mutual- solidarity\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    [10] \u00a0 see <\/strong>https:\/\/edinburghric.org\/archive\/<\/a> which has a comprehensive coverage of Edinburgh RIC activities, including international solidarity.<\/a><\/p>\n

    [11] \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/tfn.scot\/news\/scots-to-stand-with-greece-at-glasgow-anti-austerity-rally<\/a><\/p>\n

    [12]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0SaB<\/em>, pp. 218-20<\/p>\n

    [13]<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0SaB <\/em>p p.225-27<\/a><\/p>\n

    [14] \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a>https:\/\/bellacaledonia.org.uk\/2023\/03\/30\/heres-how-humza-yousaf-can-deliver-a-fairer-greener-scotland<\/a>\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    <\/a>[15] \u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/support-the-struggle-for-meaningful-self-determination-in-a-scottish-democratic-and-secular-republic\/<\/a> – RCN<\/a><\/p>\n

    [16] \u00a0 https:\/\/repiblicancomunistblog.org\/2015\/09\/13<\/a>\/9328<\/a>\u00a0<\/u>– 4. Why a republican perspective is important \u2013 Bob Goupillot and Iain Robertson<\/p>\n

    [17] \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/11\/a-critique-of-jeremy-corbyn-and-british-left-social-democracy-part-2\/<\/a> – c) To party or not to party? d) autonomous organisations, e) International organisation \u2013 Allan Armstrong<\/p>\n

    \u00a019.4.23<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    also see:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The SWP and Scottish independence – Part 1, \u201cBreakin up is so hard to do\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

    The SWP and Scottish independence, -Part 2, To party or not to party<\/a><\/p>\n

    \u2018Britain must break\u2019 to defend \u2018Real Labour\u2019 or \u2018The \u2018Break-up of the UK to advance Republican Socialism<\/a><\/p>\n

    Riding two horses at once – the SWP and Scottish independence<\/a><\/p>\n

    From Grey to Red Granite: Viewing the Left. the Scottish Question and the nature of the UK stare through the lens of Neil Davidson\u2019s writings and political work<\/a><\/p>\n

    From pre-Brit to ex-Brit: The Forging and the break-up of the UK and Britishness<\/a><\/p>\n

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