Video: Confronting the British state

At rs21’s last National Meeting in November, three speakers gave opening talks for a session on the British state, touching on three separate but related topics.

Scottish independence and the break-up of the British state

Pete C, of International Socialism Scotland, gave a talk on the progression of the Scottish pro-independence movement, and the opportunities for radical socialists to build a left-wing pole within it.

British nationalism and the global populist right

Anindya Bhattacharyya spoke about the right-wing populist project of Johnson’s Conservative Party, and how it relates to the global array of hard-right forces including the presidencies of Donald Trump in the US and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil.

Border imperialism and migrant solidarity

Ida Picard, a member of East London rs21 and Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants, spoke about border control as a aspect of British imperialism and state control of the working class.