The Commown Wealth Party (1942-46) During the Second World War a new left wing party emerged that captured the mood of the working class in those dangerous and turbulent times. The Common...
The Commonwealth Party and the Communist Party | (First appeared in Prometheus Journal 15 January, 2025 | This version includes some minor clarifications) The left in England is in disarray since...
Quit pandering to far right migrant narrative: Radical democratic reform must be at the heart of our response to a resurgent far-right | (First appeared in Chartist 22/8/24) July 27th’s large London...
Israel and the Republican Minimum Programme | Is it anti-Semitic to deny Israelis (and Palestinians) their right to a minimum (i.e. democratic republican) programme? The answer is uncertain. But this is the road that the CPGB ‘Theses on Israel-Gaza war and communist...
England and Israel – the Jewish Republic in crisis | On the 7 January 2023 a small protest of left wing and pro-Palestinian parties gathered in Tel Aviv to oppose the Netanyahu coalition government's plans to weaken the power of the Israeli Supreme Court. A week later...
Scotland’s Travails and England’s Woes | The demise of Nicola Sturgeon was the latest twist in the political game between England and Scotland. The arrest of Peter Murrell, the former SNP chief executive and Sturgeon’s husband was a dramatic moment to awaken the...
FOR AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT FOR AN AGREEMENT OF THE PEOPLE FOR PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND The Coronation and the Commonwealth of England | Charles Windsor is automatically the head of state under the hereditary ‘principles’ imposed by the 1066 Norman Conquest. William...
The Crown and slavery: a democratic republican reading of the Guardian series | King Charles urged to ‘take some responsibility’ for royal slavery links | King Charles III | The Guardian | My main reservation regarding the recent Guardian ‘Crown and Slavery’ series of...
70 Years of Failure: the death of the queen and current shortcomings of republican campaigning | The Queen’s death has been marked by an outpouring of public grieving on a scale not seen since Princess Diana was killed in a car crash a quarter of a century ago. What...
A Jubilee or a mask for anarchy? Republicanism has generally had a bad press. Monarchists have either successfully associated it with bloody, revolutionary violence or whenever events like the Jubilee occur, dismissed it as party-pooping, straight-laced, puritanical,...
Radical Independence Campaign Open Letter from England To: Jonathon Shafi (co-founder of RIC) 9 February 2021 Dear Jonathan, I am writing as a supporter of the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) who came to Glasgow in 2014 along with other supporters from England...
RIC splits | On Sunday 31 January the reconvened conference of the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) split into a RIC majority and RIC minority over whether the Campaign should continue and be upgraded or whether it should be closed down. In the 2014 Scottish...
