Allan Armstrong has produced his third online pamphlet, following The Continuing Shift from Neo-Liberalism to Right Populism. This follows the last update which looked at the impact of Right Populism and reactionary unionism on the politics of the these islands after the December 12th UK and February 8th Irish general elections. The contents of the…
GLASGOW AND READING KILLINGS RAISE MAJOR QUESTIONS ABOUT TREATMENT OF ASYLUM SEEKERS
E&L is posting an article on the attacks and killing in Glasgow and a letter about the killings in Reading. Both address the issues raised by the treatment of asylum seekers. The article written by Mike Picken (Socialist Resistance, SSP and Renfrewshire RIC) addresses the stabbing of six people and the police killing of the attacker,…
IRELAND: PROGRAMME FOR GOVERNMENT – AUSTERITY WITH A GREEN TINGE
We are posting this article from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) about the delayed formation of a new Irish government involving Find Gael, Fianna Fail and the Irish Green Party. And this is only a couple of months after some o the Irish left were considering the Irish Greens as forming part of a wider Sinn Fein,…
THE CRISIS OF THE LABOUR PARTY
Steve Freeman takes a different view if the crisis in the British Labour Party from the views taken by the British Left. Steve relates the crisis in the Labour Party to the ongoing collapse of the post-1945 UK’s social monarchist welfare state. THE CRISIS IN THE LABOUR PARTY …
STORMONT PUSHES BACK AGAINST ABORTION REGULATIONS
This article, first posted by Socialist Democracy (Ireland), examines a socially reactionary role of Stormont over women’s abortion rights. STORMONT PUSHES BACK AGAINST ABORTION REGULATIONS On the 2nd June Stormont Assembly passed a DUP motion calling for the rejection of abortion law enacted at Westminster. A Sinn Fein amendment which solely dealt with abortions…
THE GEORGE FLOYD DEMONSTRATIONS IN IRELAND
These two articles from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) look at the response in Ireland (south and north) to the killing of George Floyd and then the response of the PSNI and the Garda to these demonstrations. The first article argues for the power of solidarity in the face of shared exploitation and oppression rather the ‘allyship’…
ONE MAN’S TERRORIST
Connor Beaton reviews One Man’s Terrorist by Dan Finn. This first appeared in Red Pepper. ONE MAN’S TERRORIST – A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE IRA When the Irish government announced plans earlier this year to host a special commemorative event for members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) who were killed in the…
FANTASY FOOTBALL – THE IRISH LEFT AND FORMING A ‘LEFT GOVERNMENT’
This article, originally posted by Socialist Democracy (Ireland) looks at the attempts by People before Profit and RISE to form a ‘Left government’ in Ireland with Sinn Fein. FANTASY FOOTBALL – THE IRISH LEFT AND FORMING A ‘LEFT GOVERNMENT’ Recently People before Profit reopened talks with Sinn Fein about building an alternative…
BREXIT HASN’T GONE AWAY – THE VIEW FROM IRELAND
This article first posted by Socialist Democracy (Ireland) highlights the continuing relevance of Brexit to the British ruling class national populist strategy to attack the working class, and to continued inability of the the British Labour leadership now under Sir Keith Starmer to counter this. BREXIT HASN’T GONE AWAY – A pandemic of repression is…
THE GREENS IN GOVERNMENT? – Ireland has seen this movie before
The formation of a new government in Ireland is proving to be a tortuous process. Following Sinn Fein’s electoral surge to first place, even a Fine Gael/Fianna Fail coalition can not provide a new government. Their Framework for Government document was designed to act as a bait for other parties. This article from Socialist Democracy…