To quote James Connolly, a ‘carnival of reaction’ has been brought to the traumatised generations of Garvaghy Road. The Parades Commission and courts, based on inexplicable advice from the Police Service of Nothern Ireland, have decided to try to bring back triumphalism and sectarian bile to the streets. This after 28 years of relative calm.…
Congratulations to the organisers of yesterday’s International Women’s Day Edinburgh march and rally on an even bigger and more successful event than last year! Hundreds of people – women and men, cis and trans, from Scotland and from further afield – took part in the march, which this year focused on these important themes: In…
The United States’ military strikes on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife on 3 January constitute the most flagrant act of US imperialism seen in this century. This naked act of regime change follows months of murderous war crimes across the Caribbean and Pacific, the piratical seizure of over…
The RSP has donated £100 to the IWGB’s Rockstar Fighting Fund on behalf of our members.
The Republican Socialist Platform’s 2025 AGM took place on Saturday 23rd August 2025, with members taking part in-person from Glasgow’s Renfield Centre and via Zoom. It began with a discussion about “Scotland, the left and the 2026 elections” which included critical assessments of the Your Party initiative launched by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana as…
The latest edition of the Scottish Left Review features an RSP contribution on the need for any new left party to be guided by a republican strategy in both its politics and organisation.
The Republican Socialist Platform is proud to co-sign the following statement in solidarity with Cornish left organisations campaigning for devolution in Kernow/Cornwall on par with that extended to Scotland and Cymru/Wales. We encourage people in Scotland to sign their petition. The Cornish people have the right to recognition of their nationhood and to self-determination. We…
Labour’s plan to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is a disgraceful assault on the right to protest and the latest illustration of the UK state’s authoritarianism. Palestine Action’s tactics are justified. They draw on long traditions of non-violent direct action used in the anti-war, climate justice and alter-globalisation movements, and have exposed the…
The intensification of Israel’s war on Gaza, Palestine and on Lebanon has killed 40,000+ people, including 10,000+ children. They have been killed by bombs, gunfire, starvation, crushed under rubble and torture. This is played out in real-time on our TV and social media screens — but so far we have been unable to stop this…
The Republican Socialist Platform invites friends to discuss ‘Building Internationalism from Below in a Multipolar World’ in Glasgow on Saturday 27th April 2024, 2pm-5pm.
