The campaign for Scottish Freedom is likely to take many forms in the near future. This requires many of us to operate openly and others more discreetly or even in secret. Why? Because there are many laws in this country that even prohibit handy artwork and unionists that cringe when faced with someones artistic craftsmanship.
This weblog would like to pay tribute to the artistic work and new website of the Scottish Patriots.
Links to other activists who support the campaign for Scottish Freedom:
http://www.scottishpatriotsne.org/21.html
Suas Le Alba! (up with Scotland!)
Larry
Showing posts with label Scottish Republicanism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scottish Republicanism. Show all posts
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Saturday, 30 October 2010
SAORSA - FOUNDING STATEMENT
A new republican grouping has emerged in Scotland so I publish their founding statement below:
SAORSA - FOUNDING STATEMENT
Saorsa is a SCOTTISH REPUBLICAN organisation.
However, the Republic we envisage does not mean simply rejecting
Britain’s feudal crown and Union. An “independent” Scotland
established on this basis will still be governed by British
Imperialism and its ally, Scottish capitalism.
Under capitalist rule society has been divided into two classes
with opposing interests; on the one side, the great mass of people
who create everything of value – the wealth producing class; and,
on the other, those few who control the wealth and power - the
ruling class.
This ‘contradiction’ not only robs the workers of the true value of
their labour, but it is central to the maintenance of the neo-
Imperialist system. Taking our place in the global ANTI-IMPERIALIST
struggle we recognise that we cannot talk of a 'free Scotland'
whilst we leave this conflict untouched.
For this reason Republicanism must mean WORKERS’ REPUBLICANISM.
Only by uniting the NATIONAL LIBERATION struggle of the Scottish
people with the workers’ struggle for SOCIALISM will we 'free
Scotland'.
In Scotland today the Government, police, army and other tools of
the British state exist to defend the power of the few. We believe
the time is ripe to overthrow these conditions and establish the
rule of the majority, in a Republic based on the principles of
collective ownership and mutual solidarity. A Republic whose land
and resources are under the democratic control of the people, for
the benefit of all. Such a Republic can only be won through a
campaign of resistance, direct action & REVOLUTION!
Suas an Poblachd Shoisealach na h-Alba!
Victory to the Working Class!
*******************************
http://saorsa.weebly.com/founding-statement.html
Saturday, 3 July 2010
Scottish Republicanism-and What it Means Today
I was emailed about an excellent article by the 32 County Sovereignty Movement on Scottish Republicanism which appeared in the Sovereign Nation An Náisiun Ceannasach.
For over 300 years the nation of Scotland has been shackled
to the political union of unequals that is the British
state. For centuries prior to this forced union Scotland
fought a gallant series of wars of independence against
English attempts at subjugation and annexation. That her
Sovereignty was betrayed by the parcel of rogues in a
nation which were a supine section of the Scottish landed
nobility cannot be disputed, but the British revisionist
historians who claim that this union was popular in anyway
shape or form couldn't be more wrong.
Riots broke out against the signing of the Act of
union the length and breadth of Scotland, indeed the very signatories
to the union had to meet in secret in a cellar in
Edinburgh - such was their fear of the Scottish peoples reaction.
England achieved its union by bribery and coercion
("the rough wooing" as it was called). The signing of the treaty
was conducted with an English Fleet off the Scottish coast and
an English Army massed at the border - the threat to Scotland
should the traitors not sign the Act of Union could not have
been more explicit.
Since the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320 (which
made the point that ultimately Scottish sovereignty resided
with the people who had the right to overthrow any King of
Scotland should they bargain away or sell Scottish independence)
there has been a thread running through Scottish politics
that Republicans of today can relate to.
Like all subjugated peoples the Scottish have had
imposed upon them an official history of the victors that has
sought to obscure any understanding of resistance and rebellion
and that has sought to give them a historical amnesia that
prevents them from challenging the myths of the British state.
Religious sectarianism and all manner of divide and rule has
been used by the Anglo/British state and its mis-educators to
weaken and avoid a united Scottish challenge to their rule.
In such a way the Jacobite Rebellions have been
portrayed as doomed romanticism on behalf of a foppish and
effete King when in fact they had as their foundation a sincere
desire on behalf of their clansmen and others for Scottish
independence. Many a Jacobite sword had inscribed on its
blade for Scotland and no union, in English and in Gaelic.
Even more denied and obscured by the Brits and
their academic mouthpieces is the later struggle of Thomas
Muir, a radical Scottish republican and contemporary of Wolfe
Tone, who led the United Scotsmen and had excellent fraternal
relations and practical solidarity with the United Irishmen.
Just as Wolfe Tone can be said to be the Father of Irish
Republicanism so too can Muir be called the Father of
Scottish Republicanism. The British and their lackeys in the
Scottish establishment worked ceaselessly through lies, force
and spies to defeat the plans of the United Scotsmen for revolution
and the re-establishment of Scottish independence
and a Republic in the late 1790s. Muir himself had to flee to
France where he became the first non Frenchman given citizenship
in the French Republic.
The Scottish Radicals of 1820 attempted armed
rebellion and a detachment were captured on route to Carron
where they hoped to seize the cannons of the Brits at the
major cannon producing ironworks there. Hardie and Baird
died on the scaffold and the rest of the leaders were rounded
up and deported to Australia as convicts. In Greenock the
British militia opened fire on the crowd, killing many unarmed
civilians, who had risen in support of the rebellion. In the
Highlands and Gaeltacht resistance broke out sporadically
against the near genocide of the clearances and the latter
parts of the 19th century saw land grabs and the simmering
Crofters War. Michael Davitt was instrumental in helping
organise the Highland Land League. By the late 19th Century
following An Gorta Mor, Scotland saw an influx of Irishmen
and women as a direct result of the genocidal policies of the
Anglo/British state. Combining with the hundreds of thousands
of cleared from their land, Gaels of the Highlands who
had been forced into the urban industrial central belt, particularly
around Glasgow, fired an angry working class with rightful
grievance and a sense of injustice against the British state
and its ruling class. Thus they emerged with an innate dslike,
distrust and hatred for the Anglo/British state and a strong
desire for Irish and indeed Scottish independence. Out of this
working class came two of the greatest Republican socialists.
In Edinburgh was James Connolly and in Glasgow John
MacLean. They took the fight for independence and the
republic of the workers to a new plane of struggle.
Whilst Connolly was organising Irish workers and small farmers
for revolution in Ireland, MacLean was developing the
forces for revolution in Glasgow and on Clydeside. MacLean
broke with the British left due to their supine acceptance of the
imperialist slaughter of WW1 and came out for a Scottish
Workers Republic. In 1919 English soldiers and tanks were
placed in Glasgow in order to quell the growing rebellion that
was known as a Red Clydeside. He himself was jailed for
“Despite the best efforts of the unionist Labour
quislings in Scotland and their masters in
London, the question of independence runs
throughout modern Scottish history. It truly is
the elephant in the room on all political matters
in Scotland. Recently the twin tectonic plates of
independence and unionism have collided and
the attempt by the Brits to "kill independence
stone dead through devolution" has done
nothing of the sort.”
sedition on a number of occasions and his popularity
amongst the workers of Glasgow and Scotland can be
gauged by the 200,000 who came out to meet him from the
train on his release from Peterhead Gaol.
Despite the best efforts of the unionist Labour quislings
in Scotland and their masters in London, the question of
independence runs throughout modern Scottish history. It
truly is the elephant in the room on all political matters in
Scotland. Recently the twin tectonic plates of independence
and unionism have collided and the attempt by the Brits to
"kill independence stone dead through devolution" has done
nothing of the sort. In fact devolution has merely whetted the
appetite for independence in Scotland and the one party state
hegemony of the unionist Labour Party, which stretches over
50 years, has been broken with the election in 2007 of the
first Scottish National Party Government. As republicans we
can confidently say that the SNP whilst being a constitutional
nationalist party, has at its base thousands of republican separatist
members and supporters and indeed even amongst its
elected representatives a good few solid republicans and
republican socialists. Salmond himself was once a member
of the expelled republican socialist 79 Group.
From our perspective and given the political terrain
and conditions the SNP is the credible democratic electoral
challenge to unionism and the British state. Whilst we maintain
a revolutionary republican perspective towards independence
we should urge all Scots and Irish Republicans living
in Scotland to support the SNP in elections and campaign
and vote in any upcoming referendum put forward by the
SNP for full Scottish independence.
The anti colonial and anti imperialism of the struggle
for Irish independence and Scottish independence and
the fact that both struggles and nations have so much commonality
against English dominion mean that the 32 CSM in
Scotland and our Vol Charles Carrigan Cumann have not
neglected to fully engage in the struggle for Scottish independence
alongside our support and solidarity for our comrades
and their struggle for Irish sovereignty, independence
and the 32 County Republic.
The 32CSM have worked alongside and supported
efforts by the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement including
attending the John MacLean March and Rally in Glasgow
and the Anti Sectarianism march and rally at Glencoe. We will
continue this work for a Scottish Republic which we believe
could be the closest ally for the 32 County Irish Republic.
Whichever nation first gains a victory against Anglo/British
imperialism and their continued denial of our national sovereignties
will have a profound effect on the struggle in the
other. Not least because of the crisis it will create in the false
identity of British unionism that exists in both Ireland and
Scotland.
For over 300 years the nation of Scotland has been shackled
to the political union of unequals that is the British
state. For centuries prior to this forced union Scotland
fought a gallant series of wars of independence against
English attempts at subjugation and annexation. That her
Sovereignty was betrayed by the parcel of rogues in a
nation which were a supine section of the Scottish landed
nobility cannot be disputed, but the British revisionist
historians who claim that this union was popular in anyway
shape or form couldn't be more wrong.
Riots broke out against the signing of the Act of
union the length and breadth of Scotland, indeed the very signatories
to the union had to meet in secret in a cellar in
Edinburgh - such was their fear of the Scottish peoples reaction.
England achieved its union by bribery and coercion
("the rough wooing" as it was called). The signing of the treaty
was conducted with an English Fleet off the Scottish coast and
an English Army massed at the border - the threat to Scotland
should the traitors not sign the Act of Union could not have
been more explicit.
Since the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320 (which
made the point that ultimately Scottish sovereignty resided
with the people who had the right to overthrow any King of
Scotland should they bargain away or sell Scottish independence)
there has been a thread running through Scottish politics
that Republicans of today can relate to.
Like all subjugated peoples the Scottish have had
imposed upon them an official history of the victors that has
sought to obscure any understanding of resistance and rebellion
and that has sought to give them a historical amnesia that
prevents them from challenging the myths of the British state.
Religious sectarianism and all manner of divide and rule has
been used by the Anglo/British state and its mis-educators to
weaken and avoid a united Scottish challenge to their rule.
In such a way the Jacobite Rebellions have been
portrayed as doomed romanticism on behalf of a foppish and
effete King when in fact they had as their foundation a sincere
desire on behalf of their clansmen and others for Scottish
independence. Many a Jacobite sword had inscribed on its
blade for Scotland and no union, in English and in Gaelic.
Even more denied and obscured by the Brits and
their academic mouthpieces is the later struggle of Thomas
Muir, a radical Scottish republican and contemporary of Wolfe
Tone, who led the United Scotsmen and had excellent fraternal
relations and practical solidarity with the United Irishmen.
Just as Wolfe Tone can be said to be the Father of Irish
Republicanism so too can Muir be called the Father of
Scottish Republicanism. The British and their lackeys in the
Scottish establishment worked ceaselessly through lies, force
and spies to defeat the plans of the United Scotsmen for revolution
and the re-establishment of Scottish independence
and a Republic in the late 1790s. Muir himself had to flee to
France where he became the first non Frenchman given citizenship
in the French Republic.
The Scottish Radicals of 1820 attempted armed
rebellion and a detachment were captured on route to Carron
where they hoped to seize the cannons of the Brits at the
major cannon producing ironworks there. Hardie and Baird
died on the scaffold and the rest of the leaders were rounded
up and deported to Australia as convicts. In Greenock the
British militia opened fire on the crowd, killing many unarmed
civilians, who had risen in support of the rebellion. In the
Highlands and Gaeltacht resistance broke out sporadically
against the near genocide of the clearances and the latter
parts of the 19th century saw land grabs and the simmering
Crofters War. Michael Davitt was instrumental in helping
organise the Highland Land League. By the late 19th Century
following An Gorta Mor, Scotland saw an influx of Irishmen
and women as a direct result of the genocidal policies of the
Anglo/British state. Combining with the hundreds of thousands
of cleared from their land, Gaels of the Highlands who
had been forced into the urban industrial central belt, particularly
around Glasgow, fired an angry working class with rightful
grievance and a sense of injustice against the British state
and its ruling class. Thus they emerged with an innate dslike,
distrust and hatred for the Anglo/British state and a strong
desire for Irish and indeed Scottish independence. Out of this
working class came two of the greatest Republican socialists.
In Edinburgh was James Connolly and in Glasgow John
MacLean. They took the fight for independence and the
republic of the workers to a new plane of struggle.
Whilst Connolly was organising Irish workers and small farmers
for revolution in Ireland, MacLean was developing the
forces for revolution in Glasgow and on Clydeside. MacLean
broke with the British left due to their supine acceptance of the
imperialist slaughter of WW1 and came out for a Scottish
Workers Republic. In 1919 English soldiers and tanks were
placed in Glasgow in order to quell the growing rebellion that
was known as a Red Clydeside. He himself was jailed for
“Despite the best efforts of the unionist Labour
quislings in Scotland and their masters in
London, the question of independence runs
throughout modern Scottish history. It truly is
the elephant in the room on all political matters
in Scotland. Recently the twin tectonic plates of
independence and unionism have collided and
the attempt by the Brits to "kill independence
stone dead through devolution" has done
nothing of the sort.”
sedition on a number of occasions and his popularity
amongst the workers of Glasgow and Scotland can be
gauged by the 200,000 who came out to meet him from the
train on his release from Peterhead Gaol.
Despite the best efforts of the unionist Labour quislings
in Scotland and their masters in London, the question of
independence runs throughout modern Scottish history. It
truly is the elephant in the room on all political matters in
Scotland. Recently the twin tectonic plates of independence
and unionism have collided and the attempt by the Brits to
"kill independence stone dead through devolution" has done
nothing of the sort. In fact devolution has merely whetted the
appetite for independence in Scotland and the one party state
hegemony of the unionist Labour Party, which stretches over
50 years, has been broken with the election in 2007 of the
first Scottish National Party Government. As republicans we
can confidently say that the SNP whilst being a constitutional
nationalist party, has at its base thousands of republican separatist
members and supporters and indeed even amongst its
elected representatives a good few solid republicans and
republican socialists. Salmond himself was once a member
of the expelled republican socialist 79 Group.
From our perspective and given the political terrain
and conditions the SNP is the credible democratic electoral
challenge to unionism and the British state. Whilst we maintain
a revolutionary republican perspective towards independence
we should urge all Scots and Irish Republicans living
in Scotland to support the SNP in elections and campaign
and vote in any upcoming referendum put forward by the
SNP for full Scottish independence.
The anti colonial and anti imperialism of the struggle
for Irish independence and Scottish independence and
the fact that both struggles and nations have so much commonality
against English dominion mean that the 32 CSM in
Scotland and our Vol Charles Carrigan Cumann have not
neglected to fully engage in the struggle for Scottish independence
alongside our support and solidarity for our comrades
and their struggle for Irish sovereignty, independence
and the 32 County Republic.
The 32CSM have worked alongside and supported
efforts by the Scottish Republican Socialist Movement including
attending the John MacLean March and Rally in Glasgow
and the Anti Sectarianism march and rally at Glencoe. We will
continue this work for a Scottish Republic which we believe
could be the closest ally for the 32 County Irish Republic.
Whichever nation first gains a victory against Anglo/British
imperialism and their continued denial of our national sovereignties
will have a profound effect on the struggle in the
other. Not least because of the crisis it will create in the false
identity of British unionism that exists in both Ireland and
Scotland.
Saturday, 27 March 2010
SRSM launch new website
The Scottish Republican Socialist Movement have launched an impressive new website
The address is http://scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org
Also the active Scottish Republicans have created a new forum at http://scottishrepublicans.myfreeforum.org
Click on the links to check these out.
The address is http://scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org
Also the active Scottish Republicans have created a new forum at http://scottishrepublicans.myfreeforum.org
Click on the links to check these out.
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Fianna na h-Alba
Today let us look at the organisation Fianna na h-Alba the website says the following below:
After the disappointing YSI turnout at Bannockburn we have decided we are going to take Fianna na h-Alba seriously. It is now our intention to restore Fianna na h-Alba not only to Glasgow but to the whole of Scotland.
We do not wish the Fianna to be a political party or organisation, but involved solely in the national question and to develop the youth of Scotland as an intellectual and physically strong organised body of resistance to English rule.
Membership is open to all race, creed and religion, however only persons of the highest character will be accepted. The concept of social justice will predominate throughout all ranks.
This organization is non-sectarian.
Signed,
Fianna na h-Alba
June 2009
Frequently Asked Questions
Are you terrorists?
No. We are simply a network of Republican youth. We are simply advocating defence of our country and when there are peaceful means that do not mean full submission to a foreign government, our members our encouraged to take them. We are non sectarian.
What does your name mean?
Fianna na h-Alba can be translated as warriors of Scotland. A Fiann is a warrior, or a member of Fianna na h-Alba. The name was used by a paramilitary organisation in Glasgow in the 1920s, and later by a Gaelic boy Scout organization that was also based in Glasgow.
What political party are you aligned to?
Any that support Scottish independence, particularily those that support a Scottish Republic eg. the SSP and SSFG. We also support various other organisations against racism and sectarianism for example Anti-Facsist Action, and Republican movements in other countries like Mec Vannain and Mebyon Kernow. More in our links section under Celtic solidarity.
I don't live in Scotland. Can I join?
Yes! You can either join either on your own or make your own Sluagh with nearby expats.
I'm not Scottish ... I'm Manx and they don't have much in the way of Republican youth movements. Can I join, even if it's just to go camping?
Go on then.
Do you have a uniform?
Not at the moment. This will be debated at the Ard-Fheis, and will be based on either army camouflage and/or Fianna Éireann uniforms.
When's this Ard-Fheisy thing?
Near Glasgow, in August. We hope.
What's your relationship to Fianna na hÉireann?
We are trying to contact both factions but they are being evasive like wee leprechauns holding their gold. We also really want to thank them for stealing their ideas, logos and statements.
Update: The 32csm Fianna have disbanded. No contact from RSF Fianna but they are still active, just search 'Bodenstown 2009' on Youtube.
What with those Comhlan thingies?
Comhlan = Company. At the moment there are three companies in Scotland:
Comhlan A / A Company covers Glasgow, Edinburgh and the 'Lowlands'.
Comhlan B / B Company covers the East Highlands including Aberdeen and Dundee.
Comhlan C / C Company coveres the West Highlands, Argyll, the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland.
Comhlan D / D Company is for expatriate Scots and the Gallóglaigh (name for members from Ireland and other 'Celtic nations')
Where's that funny flag from?
The funny flag as you call it is the flag of the Fianna. The sunburst represents freedom and the points represent the Fianna code, which will be revised and uploaded at a later date. There is another version used by expatriate Scots, this one is black to represent the mourning of Fianns forced to leave their homeland, but the red represents the blood that bonds them to Scotland and the way following the Fianna code can break the sadness of being away. A wee bit soppy if you ask me but a flag's a flag. Some people tend to think it also represents anarcho-communism.
What's your opinion on the Gaelic?
'S an canan na h-Alba a th'ann na Gaidhilig, feumaidh sinn cum ar canan beo. By the time you're finished with us that will no longer be mumbo-jumbo.
Do you actually have any plans for this year, or are you just another pseudo Scottish-Republican group that hangs around cyberspace threatening poor English grannies living in Scotland?
Our plans include: Recruiting new members to build all four companies up to strength; Holding a democratic Ard-Fheis to make the opinions of our members accountable; Creating opportunites for sport and fitness; Supporting the Gaelic language; Action against racism and sectarianism in Scotland; Building links with similar movements in other Celtic countries.
GET YOUR VOICE HEARD - JOIN THE FIANNA TODAY!!!
Thursday, 25 September 2008
The campaign for a real Scottish Republican Movement
A new website has been set up to promote the cause of Real Scottish Republicanism. This is because the present campaigners for independence and referendum have failed to build a significant movement for change. Many I suspect are infiltrated by British agents and this includes SRSM and Siol nan Gaidheal. These individual oppose real change in Scotland and will never present a challenge to the existing British institutions. They support the constitutional nationalist SNP and are well known for their hatred of socialism.
The Real Scottish Republican website can be viewed at http://dawnofliberation.weeby.com
What is required now is for as many people as possible to leave their contact details on the website and see if we can begin to get some militant activists identified as potential recruits or volunteers in Scotland that can present a new challenge to the British state and Scottish establishment.
As stated on the website:
"most of the campaigns in Scotland are operated by cliques and lack the cutting edge of republican socialist struggle. However online petitions are a necessary part of the cybernet struggle to apply pressure and encourage community activism."
The website also provides a link to the Scottish socialist Freedom Group (SSFG) and as stated on the site:
"The Scottish Socialist Freedom Group (SSFG) is an Internet based organisation. We lay claim to being both a communication organisation that represents the only true movement for Scottish Republicanism and movement for Socialism in Scotland. It is possible to join our organisation through the website http://ssfg.weebly.com
We believe in the concept of true republican socialist beliefs that others in Scotland have sold out on while they have taken to actively campaigning for the constitutional nationalist SNP. The SSFG exist to fill the void that the traitors have created and eventually expand our Internet activism into the wider community.
We represent the Real Scottish Republican Socialist movement in Scotland."
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