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A Tartan Gloss on Empire

Holiday Wales Letter by Dave Sherry, February 2004

St. Director of Tourism Since 1998 Mr. Peter Hilary Modeste has served, as the Director of Tourism of the St. Lucia Tourist Board. President of the St. Lucia Hotel & Tourism Association, Mr. Modeste has been employed within the tourism sector for a number of years. He was educated at the University of Wales and is married with three children. A former Minister of Education, Mr. Modeste has served on a number of national organizations including the St. Lucia Development Bank.

Cottage Holiday In Wales Jamie Rankin didn't appreciate Neil Davidson's critique of Scottish nationalism, arguing, 'It is as legitimate to feel that Scotland has been oppressed by England since 1296 as it is to believe that Ireland has been oppressed by England since Cromwell' (Letters, January SR).

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Accommodation Holiday Wales At the start of the 18th century, Britain and France were locked in global combat - 'the divine right of kings versus the divine right of property'. Until 1707 it was not 'Britain' but capitalist England that fought feudal reaction. England sought union with Scotland to end Stuart intrigue and block any French invasion.

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Catering Holiday Self Wales In the 1690s Scotland experienced famine while half its national capital was squandered in a vain attempt to establish a Scottish Empire in Central America. The key section of the ruling class knew things must change. The union of 1707 did not represent their suppression by the English. It was an agreement between them to exploit empire.

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Family Holiday Wales Jacobitism was based among the declining lairds and magnates who could not modernise. They wanted to turn the clock back, restore a feudal monarchy and link Britain with France. The majority of the Scottish population opposed them.

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Adventure Holiday Wales When Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of the deposed James II, sailed from France in 1745 to launch the counter-revolution he had never seen Scotland and scarcely spoke English, never mind Gaelic. The Highland peasants raised to fight for him had no choice in the matter. Under the clan system they were pressed into feudal military service by their clan chiefs. Those who refused faced eviction or roof burning.

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Cottage Holiday Wales More Scots took up arms against the rebellion than joined it. It was not a national war but the endgame of the civil war. The two armies that confronted each other across Culloden Moor represented not two different nations, but what Marx later called two different modes of production. That's why the slaughter lasted less than 30 minutes.

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Holiday Wales Thereafter Scots landowners and capitalists - including some of the former clan chiefs - were able to use the military power of the united British state to extend their control from the Lowlands to the Highlands and complete its brutal conquest for their own benefit. Highlanders suffered terrible oppression, but they no more suffered from national oppression than did the English peasantry during the earlier enclosures of the common land. Between 1750 and 1780 Scotland compressed into 30 years of development the economic growth that had spread over two centuries in England.

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Caravan Holiday In Wales Scots pioneered Britain's empire and British overseas investment. Glasgow, a beneficiary of the slave trade, became the 'Second City of Empire'. By contrast Ireland was driven to abject poverty. The Irish bourgeoisie could never fully develop, but its struggle to do so led to repeated conflicts with Britain and a deep-rooted revolutionary nationalism that lasted 200 years.

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Accommodation Holiday Wales The Scots bourgeoisie led no struggle against the British Empire. Scottish nationalism hardly existed during the heyday of empire. There was no Scottish Michael Collins.

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Catering Holiday Self Wales While Irish national consciousness led thousands to fight British imperialism, elements of the Scottish national tradition were used to persuade thousands of young Scotsmen to kill and die for it. Scottish nationalism became a component part of British nationalism - a tartan gloss on empire.

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Family Holiday Wales Of course if a real struggle develops for independence from the UK then we support it regardless of our disagreements with its political leadership. But we are not for conning the workers. The only force that can break the power of British capital is united working class action in Scotland, England and beyond. It cannot be developed by stressing a national consciousness that distinguishes Scottish workers from their allies south of the border or across the sea. That's why the best elements in the Scottish working class movement have always refused to cut themselves off from the movement in England and Wales. Scottish socialists cannot be Scottish nationalists.

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Adventure Holiday Wales Dave Sherry
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