{"id":24526,"date":"2023-05-08T13:19:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=24526"},"modified":"2023-05-09T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T18:47:17","slug":"we-are-citizens-not-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2023\/05\/08\/we-are-citizens-not-subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"We are citizens not subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Radical Independence Campaign<\/a> issued the following statement for the Calton Hill republican rally on May 6th. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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WE ARE CITIZENS NOT SUBJECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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RIC banner at Calton Hill rally<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Radical Independence Campaign initiated the 2023 Declaration of Calton Hill, signed by nearly 3000 people.\u00a0 We welcome those attending today\u2019s rally organised by Our Republic.\u00a0 We are here to challenge Charles\u2019 coronation – a UK state-orchestrated \u2018Britfest\u2019.<\/p>\n

We are expected to give homage to Charles and all his heirs as if we still lived under a feudal monarchy. \u00a0Under feudalism the state was ruled directly from above by kings and queens, backed by whatever level of force they thought necessary.\u00a0 Lords, ready to swear homage, were licensed to oppress their feudal \u2018inferiors\u2019.\u00a0 In return they provided military backing for the monarchy whenever required.<\/p>\n

There have been significant changes since those days, but is it is revealing that the British ruling class still wants to impose a servile subject status upon us.\u00a0 We are not citizens but live in a state where sovereignty lies with the Crown-in-Westminster.\u00a0 This means Charles exerts little power in his own right.\u00a0 <\/em>The Windsors enjoy obscene privileges in terms of property, income and status, but these are rewards given for their \u00a0role in supporting and promoting the interests of today\u2019s wider British ruling class.<\/p>\n

So, anybody declaring their homage to the dysfunctional Windsor family, is also being asked by Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer to give sanction to the City of London (with its special UK constitutional protection) and the greed-driven corporate CEOs (hiding their cronyism behind a screen of Westminster-backed market confidentiality). \u00a0Together they helped bring about the 2008 Financial Crash and have made massive profits during Covid. \u00a0Meanwhile, any security of employment and domicile, access to health and social care are being decimated.\u00a0 We are also being asked to approve major attacks on our democratic rights, whether as striking workers, environmental demonstrators, asylum seekers, potential voters or critics of the BBC.\u00a0 And that now extends to the Proclaimers\u2019 I\u2019m Gonna Be<\/em> – 500 miles from that anti-democratic cesspit in Westminster and Buckingham Palace. \u00a0Nobody elected Sunak to be UK PM.\u00a0 And nobody voted for Charles Windsor.<\/p>\n

And in Scotland, we now have another deeply anti-democratic Crown institution, the Supreme Court, denying our right to hold IndyRef2. \u00a0Exercising this right was voted for by the Scottish people in the 2021 Holyrood election.\u00a0 But the Tories, with active complicity or little opposition from Labour, has gone further.\u00a0 They are now rolling back the powers of Scottish parliament voted for by 74% in 1998. \u00a0Power is being transferred from Holyrood to the UK hub just off the Royal Mile. \u00a0This is BOSS – British Occupied Subject Scotland.<\/p>\n

We no longer have the constitutional means to achieve Scottish independence. \u00a0Our protest today anticipates the organised withdrawal of participation in the UK state\u2019s directly imposed institutions. And beyond that we look to extra-constitutional, non-violent, direct action until we have completed Scotland\u2019s unfinished Democratic Revolution.<\/p>\n

Nae tae BOSS \u2013 British Occupied Subject Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aye tae a Scottish Democratic Republic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Freedom come all ye<\/strong><\/p>\n

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also see:<\/p>\n

James Connolly and the coronation of Edward VII – James Connolly, Marxist Internet Archive<\/a><\/p>\n

What does republicanism mean? \u2013 Allan Armstrong, bella caledonia<\/a><\/p>\n

Announcing the 2023 Declaration of Calton Hill \u2013 Allan Armstrong, bella caledonia<\/a><\/p>\n

RIC reconstituted and the 2023 Declaration of Calton Hill \u2013 Allan Armstrong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Radical Independence Campaign issued the following statement for the Calton Hill republican rally on May 6th. \u00a0   WE ARE CITIZENS NOT SUBJECTS The Radical Independence Campaign initiated the 2023 Declaration of Calton Hill, signed by nearly 3000 people.\u00a0 We welcome those attending today\u2019s rally organised by Our Republic.\u00a0 We are here to challenge…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1855,1858,1861,1867,1873,1846,1874,1868,8829,1863,1878,1876,1875,1877],"tags":[9203],"class_list":["post-24526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploitation-and-emancipation","category-oppression-liberation","category-alienation-self-determination","category-emancipation-liberation-and-self-determination","category-against-unionism","category-british-imperialism","category-republicanism","category-against-imperialism","category-national-liberation","category-cultural-celebration","category-england-against-unionism","category-ireland-against-unionism","category-scotland-against-unionism","category-wales-against-unionism","tag-author-radical-independence-campaign"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.scot\/@rcfscotland\/110333263891022293","error":""},"views":1236,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24656,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24526\/revisions\/24656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}