The New party -For a Social Monarchy or a Social Republic? | The announcement on 3 July 2025 that Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn were co-leaders of a proposed new left party was met with...
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 Wealth...
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...
No Oranges for England | "Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly, "Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I've a many curious things to show when you are there.""Oh...
The New party -For a Social Monarchy or a Social Republic? | The announcement on 3 July 2025 that Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn were co-leaders of a proposed new left party was met with enthusiasm. Around 70,000 people signed up within days. Last week...
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 Wealth party was set up in July 1942 from a merger of JB Priestley’s 1941...
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 the defeat of the Corbyn movement. It has led to discussion and debate...
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...
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...
