What is Saorsa all about?
Saorsa has been formed to give voice to militant Scottish Republicanism
We see Scotland’s future as an independent Republic. However this doesn’t mean just giving a tartan touch to British institutions. Our struggle is against British Imperialism in all its forms.
This means challenging the British state’s right to govern Scotland, whether through Westminster, the parasitic House of Windsor or the British parliament at Holyrood - by whatever means are deemed necessary in the context of our time.
It means challenging the right of British Crown Forces to keep an armed garrison in Scotland and opposing recruitment to Britain’s murder machine.
But fundamentally it means challenging the social system which Imperialism has planted in the soil of Scotland. An economic system based on the exploitation of the working class through the private ownership of our nation’s resources.
We offer an alternative vision for Scotland where our land and resources are recognised as the common property of all. A vision for Scotland free from the robbery of Capitalism and Landlordism. A vision which cherishes all the children of our nation equally.
Without this principled vision an independent Scotland will just replicate the Imperialist outlook so carefully planted in this country over the preceding centuries.
To achieve these goals we will work with any and all interested parties. We aim to produce a new publication to provide an open forum for the advancement of republican politics in Scotland. In turn we hope that this will lead to the formation of a Republican/ Anti-Imperialist coalition of forces better able to take the fight to Imperialism in Scotland.
We believe that the increasingly fractured nature of the republican left, and socialist left makes this a necessity for the advancement of the struggle in these times.