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,…
In memory of Neil Davidson: The West – No Better Than All the Rest
Allan Armstrong was reading How the West Came to Rule – The geopolitical origins of capitalism, by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglum, as he learned of the tragic death of Neil Davidson. This book was influenced by Neil’s work on Uneven and Combined Development at a world scale. Allan has engaged in several debates with Neil…
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…
ON LOOTING AND STATUE TOPPLING
These two short pieces have been taken from the Scottish Left Forum ON LOOTING AND STATUE TOPPLING __________ The initial US BLM protests were accompanied by looting and statue toppling. This amounted to oppositional ‘shock and awe’ tactics. These which were mainly responsible for breaking through the usual media silence and downplaying of constitutional…
RACISM – CALLING A DIFFERENT TONE
The Emancipation & Liberation Editorial Board (EB) is posting this article by Will Stratford of the Platypus Affiliated Society (PAS) in the USA about the Left’s response to the BLM protests. PAS is a Left propagandist think-tank. The EB is taking up Stratford’s challenge to the Left to publish his arguments. We invite others to…
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’…
RACISM, CAPITALISM AND CLASS STRUGGLE
Thus article, written by Josefina L. Martinez, in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, was first posted by Left Voice in the USA. RACISM, CAPITALISM AND CLASS STRUGGLE The anti-racist uprising in the United States over the brutal murder of George Floyd reopens a strategic question: How do we link 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…