The Kingdom of Judea and the Republic of Israel At the beginning of the civil war in Israel-Palestine in October 2023 the Republican Labour Education Forum produced a Position Paper making a case...
The Republican Case for a Democratic Secular Federal Republic of Israel and Palestine | 1. Preamble Hamas’s deadly attack on 7 October 2023 against Israeli soldiers and civilian...
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...
Part 1 Corbyn, Left Unity and Republican Socialism | We might start at the beginning. In 2013 I attended the founding conference of Left Unity debating the merits of different platforms. I spoke about the three historical reference points behind the platforms...
Labour's Historic Defeat in Scotland | You may remember the famous Monty Python sketch about a parrot returned by a dissatisfied customer, John Cleese, to the pet-shop run by Michael Palin. As Cleese enters the shop, Palin says, “We are closing for lunch”. Cleese says...
Labour Left Alliance - social monarchism or republicanism? Republicanism in the Labour Party is the ‘dog that doesn’t bark’ argues Kenneth Morgan, with reference to Sherlock Holmes who deduced from the absence of a fact who...
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...
A Country Called Europe | Do you want to live in a country called Europe? Boris Johnson says ‘No, No, No’ whereas I would give a conditional Yes. If Europe was a fully democratic country it would be infinitely better than living in the current bureaucratic EU or the...
