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Report of Meeting, Edinburgh, October 2016
REPORT OF MEETING TO SET UP THE CAMPAIGN FOR A EUROPEAN REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY OUT OF THE BLUE CENTRE, DALMENY STREET, LEITH, EDINBURGH, 15th OCTOBER 2016 12 people attended the meeting, called by the RSA (Scotland), to set up the … Continue reading
BEING A REPUBLICAN MEANS MORE
BEING A REPUBLICAN MEANS MORE THAN BEING ANTI-MONARCHIST Betty Windsor’s extended 90th birthday celebrations have led some socialists to proclaim their anti-monarchist credentials. Criticism is usually focused on the antiquated class structure, which the monarchy upholds, and its high cost, … Continue reading
CPGB resigns from LU
CPGB resigns from LU Jack Conrad and Yassamine Mather of the CPGB and Left Unity Communist Platform proposed a motion at the Left Unity National Council calling for “an emergency national conference…..as a matter of extreme urgency. The emergency national … Continue reading
Levellers and Diggers meeting
Comrades Forty one people packed in to the meeting room at Wakefield’s Red Shed on Saturday 13 February to hear three speakers talk about two 17th century radical movements, THE LEVELLERS AND THE DIGGERS. Ian Brooke, author of “England’s Lost … Continue reading
Response to Left Unity Disputes Committee
Response to Left Unity Disputes Committee Background In early 2015 Republican Socialists decided to stand a candidate in the general election in England. It was agreed I would stand in Bermondsey. Although we did not know this until much later, … Continue reading
Economics of riots
Riots have major economic costs. It is not only police pay, insurance premiums, hospital bills, rebuilding costs, and extra prison places that go up as buildings fall down. What about the tourist trade and the huge profits to be made … Continue reading
Market Riot: 8 August 2011
This week has seen the ‘markets’ rioting. They burnt property worth £150bn from the UK’s top 100 companies. World wide the rioters destroyed £2.8 trillion worth of share values. Some think this is simply a crime against property. But many … Continue reading