Heckle is the new online magazine of the Republican Socialist Platform.
Author: Republican Socialist Platform
STATEMENT: Police repression of republicanism must end
The Republican Socialist Platform unconditionally condemns Police Scotland’s harassment, detention and attempted criminalisation of peaceful protesters in Edinburgh and Glasgow over the past few days.
Urgent financial appeal to aid the Ukrainian mineworkers’ resistance
The Republican Socialist Platform is proud to have contributed £200 to the urgent financial appeal from trade unionists in Pavlograd, Ukraine. We are republishing below the appeal as first shared on the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign website last month. Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the mining communities of Donbas have faced relentless attack and…
STATEMENT: We have just 16 months to build a republican movement
The setting of a date – 19th October 2023 – for a new referendum on Scottish independence is an important and welcome development. This is a stronger commitment from a Scottish government to a new poll than at any point since September 2014, and comes as the democratic, economic and ecological crises of the UK…
Cairnryan blockaders pledge to return
Michael MacLeod, seafaring RMT member, reports on last week’s blockade at Cairnryan in solidarity with sacked P&O Ferries workers. Last Friday, the RMT, fellow trade unionists and comrades from across Scotland returned to Cairnryan to show P&O Ferries that their actions in sacking 800 workers in the St Patrick’s Day Massacre have not been forgotten.…
Solidarity with the uprising in Kazakhstan
The Republican Socialist Platform is a signatory to this international statement of solidarity with the uprising in Kazakhstan.
History Illustrated: The Braes, The League and The Party – The Crofters’ Revolts of the 1880s
In the latest installment of our History Illustrated series, we examine one of the lesser-known episodes in the Highland Clearances, when crofters and cotters stood together to physically resist the forces of the state as they attempted to enforce the will of the lairds.
Urgent appeal: Solidarity with William Aitken
The Republican Socialist Platform is deeply concerned to learn that William Aitken, a Scottish man who lives and works in Barcelona, remains in jail a month after his arrest over his alleged participation in protests against the disgraceful imprisonment of Catalan rapper Pablo Hasél.
Political Education: What is Republicanism?
The Republican Socialist Platform will begin a new political education series this month, starting by tackling the question: What is republicanism? Political education Our inaugural series of 13 structured political discussions, introduced and facilitated by different RSP members, will explore the fundamental aspects of the RSP’s politics as well as some of the pressing issues…
History Illustrated: “Red” Harry Whyte
When the tide of progress in Russia turned back in the 1930s, it was a gay communist from Edinburgh who made a desperate appeal directly to the Soviet leadership not to turn their back on human liberation.