Fionn Mac Colla - At the Sign of the Clenched Fist

 Attached here are scanned images from Fionn MacColla's 1967 book 'At the sign of the clenched fist'. I believe they belong here in the public domain. The book belongs to that special genre: the ramblings of a madman. And not just any madman, but one who has shunned his Sassanach slave name Thomas Douglas MacDonald, learned Gaelic, moved to Western Isles, converted from the Wee Frees to the true Catholic faith, and has helped found the National Party of Scotland along with a variety of other writers and artists such as Edward Baird who painted MacColla's above portrait. MacColla is 26 there, it was 1932.

When will it be “Our” republic?

 The Royal Family have had a lot of negative press this year – and rightly so. Amongst the backlash, a new campaign emerged called ‘Our Republic’. Front and centre on their website, is their blue and white pyramid logo, and the group’s credo.

 

Book review: New Model Island

 

 Available at: https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2021/06/01/new-model-island/

Recovering repressed memories from Scotland’s formative period

 

Article available at: http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2021/05/28/recovering-repressed-memories-from-scotlands-formative-period/

Republican banner for Scotland

 A new republican tricolour flag has been designed to represent a new republican identity in a new Scotland. The three colours are each highly symbolic championing secularism, democracy. The tricolour design connects Scotland with the the UK’s ‘next door neighbours’, Ireland and France who both fly tricolours. Lesser-known republican tricolour flags are also used in Wales and England. The three vertical stripes stand for a society which values liberty, equality and solidarity. This is a secular and republican flag and points to a future Scotland founded on the sovereignty of the people; at present we live under the sovereignty of the crown and its anti-democratic powers which lie in parliament, including the devolved parliament.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highland Wilderness: then and now

An updated version of this was featured at: https://republicansocialists.scot/2020/12/the-case-for-socialism-in-the-highlands/

Introduction

Though the Clearances turned the Highlands into a wilderness, it is argued in the first part of this article that they can be understood as a transitionary period in Scotland’s socioeconomic development between tribal feudalism and industrial capitalism. The article goes on to outline how, nearly 200 years later, through underdevelopment, the Highlands remain a place of wilderness. The focus in this second part is on the sorry state of the renewables industry, and of land ownership.