Annual John MacLean Rally 2012

Gerry Cairns speaking at the John MacLean Commemoration November 2011

Scottish Republican Socialist Movement

Annual John MacLean Commemoration

Sunday 25 November 2012

Eastwood Cemetery 1PM (next to Thornliebank Railway Station) for a graveside oration. Followed by a march from Thornliebank St/Boydston Rd 1.30 pm prompt. This will be followed by a social/rally at the Shawbridge Tavern, Shawbridge St, with a range of speakers and live music, including the White Rose folk group.

£5. Children free. All welcome.

Numbers 23, 45 and 57 bus (First) will take you directly to Eastwood Cemetery. Speakers include; Gerry Cairns (John MacLean Society), Brian Quail (SCND), Alan Stewart, Iain Ramsay, Celtic League and 1820 Society, The Communist Party of Scotland and Stephen Coyle, historian, who will highlight the links between John MacLean & Irish Revolutionaries.

www.scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org

SRSM, P.O. Box 16887, Glasgow, G11 9E

Scottish Workers Republican Party

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Scottish Workers Republican Party (SWRP) was formed by the Scottish Marxist activist John Maclean (1879-1923) in the 1910s. It advocated the political doctrine of communism, whilst also supporting Scottish independence. This dual communist-nationalist doctrine was heavily influenced by the thinking of James Connolly who similarly believed in socialism and independence for Ireland and had set up his Irish Socialist Republican Party in 1896. MacLean argued that the break-up of the British state and empire would aid the cause of world-wide socialism and thus he supported the idea of an independent Scotland. This inherent nationalism alienated the SWRP from the mainstream British left though. The SWRP carried on its political activity for some time after the death of MacLean in 1923 but never made any real impact politically. An organisation which resurrected the name Scottish Workers Republican Party was formed in 1974 as a split from the Scottish Republican Socialist Clubs (forerunner of the Scottish Republican Socialist Party). In 1976 most of the members of the SWRP joined Jim Sillars' Scottish Labour Party and this SWRP Mark II party also became defunct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Workers_Republican_Party

Cornwall Radio station discuss Marian Price

Write to Irish Political Prisoner Michael Campbell

Have an email below in which I am welcomed to make public. Michael Campbell needs your support and although this is a Scottish Republican Socialist weblog we will not stand idly by while Irish Political Prisoners suffer in jail because of British Rule in Ireland.

Slan agus Beannacht

Larry

Larry a chara

I notice on the Republican.ie board several postings re Michael Campbell. I'd like to inform everyone that Michael DOES in fact receive mail sent to him at the prison. He curently has to share a cell with several other prisoners (in medieval conditions) and is only allowed less than one hour out of his cell for exercise and fresh air. He is confined to the cell for 23 hours a day. He would like to reply to all letters but is only allowed a small allowance to buy stamps and writing paper, so replying to each and every letter is nigh on impossible. He is in contact with me on a regular basis and has received all my letters so far. He appreciates very much people writing to him. Michael would like to apply for repatriation to a prison in Ireland to serve his sentence but as he is appealing against his sentence he cannot be repatriated until all such matters are out of the way. His appeal could take several years and even then his term of imprisonment could be extended, not reduced. He needs all our support Larry. Please feel free to post this on the Republican.ie board - in fact on any board. Hope these few lines find you well. Many thanks for all your updates Larry, much appreciated.

Slan go foill.

Michael H.

1.07.2012.

He is locked up 23 hours a day.

Write to Michael

His address is:

MICHAEL CAMPBELL

LUKISKIU TARDYMOIZOLIATORIUS - KALEJIMAS LUKISKIU SKG. 6 VILNIUS LT-01108 LITHUANIA.

Bannockburn Rally 2012

Dr Jas D Young RIP

Dr James D Young, Scottish Labour Historian and Scottish Republican Socialist died at home after a long illness in Polmont Sunday June 24 on the anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. He was aged 81

Funeral Service to place on Monday 2nd July at 3:30pm - Falkirk Crematorium.

http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/services/corporate_neighbourhood/cemeteries_and_crematorium/crematorium.aspx

Reception to follow at The Inchyra Grange hotel at 4:15pm.

http://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/our-hotels/macdonald-inchyra-hotel-spa/

His wife, Lorna, is thinking of scattering his ashes on the field of Bannockburn where he was howled off the mike by an "apolitical" group. His wife Lorna, a retired nurse, had to take him home. This was his last pubic appearance.

Would have been Che Guevara's 84th Birthday

Yesterday would have been Che Guevara's 84th Birthday....A great Revolutionary who fought to his death to stamp out Capitalism and poverty, Che traveled throughout Latin America and was radically transformed by the endemic poverty and alienation he witnessed. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to conclude that the region's ingrained economic inequalities were an intrinsic result of capitalism, monopolism, neocolonialism, and imperialism, with the only remedy being world revolution.

Britain's Secret War - Errata by Donald Anderson

Britain's Secret War: Tartan Terrorism and the Anglo American State

By Andrew Murray Scott & Iain MacLeay Sutherland

ISBN 1-85158-313-0

Errata by Donald Anderson

Iain MacLeay Sutherland interviewed myself on several occasions at my home and in pubs. Unfortunately, he never took any notes. I gave him an errata at the time of the publication, which he accepted and said he would correct the mistakes should there be a republication. To date, this has not happened. This is why I have now decided to put it online. I have lost my copy, though he should still have his, as did others. I gave a copy to him at the time. I am now revisiting this and making amendments from memory,

The full errata can now be read at the link below.

http://www.scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/Pages/SRSMArticlesBritainsSecretWar.aspx

All Hail, The Scottish Workers Republic!

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SRSM P.O. Box 16887 Glasgow G11 9EP Scotland

Comments, discussion information, agreements, disagreements, are all are welcome on our SRSM forum HERE

http://scottishrepublicans.myfreeforum.org

New T-Shirt available from SRSM

Free Scotland - Saor Alba T-Shirt now available to purchase. This shirt is in the colour Blue and can be purchased from SRSM at the link below.

http://www.scottishrepublicansocialistmovement.org/Pages/SRSMShop.aspx

Welsh Republican Event