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  Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland was an internal grouping within the Scottish National Party (SNP) that formed in response to the efforts of the 79 Group within the party.
The Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland formed itself to try and ensure that the SNP avoided traditional debates of left and right, arguing that the cause of Scottish independence transcended such arguments.
After the 79 Group fell apart the Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland did likewise (however, many of the members of the 79 group were readmitted, and indeed came to lead the party).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Campaign_for_Nationalism_in_Scotland   (264 words)

  
 The Militant - December 16, 2002 -- Irish in Scotland stand up to rulers’ chauvinist campaign
This chauvinist campaign is being carried out in the name of combating "sectarianism." While decrying efforts to impose "sectarian" religious views on others--Protestant or Catholic--officials have in practice used the term as a cover for targeting Irish nationalists.
Joining the anti-Irish campaign, First Minister Jack McConnell of Scotland has proclaimed his determination to "end an attitude which, like racism, is a stain on Scotland’s reputation." McConnell has worked with the directors of football clubs to ban the sale of "paramilitary" flags outside football grounds--supposedly referring to the IRA and rightist pro-British groups.
Slaven remarked, "The direction and tone of the debate on ‘sectarianism’ in Scotland is part of a long-term campaign by the British government to label the conflict in the north of Ireland as sectarian.
www.themilitant.com /2002/6647/664757.html   (1246 words)

  
 Scotland: Declaring for nationalism or socialism?
Militant, for example, was central in Scotland and throughout Britain, to building the mass anti-poll tax movement that led to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher.
We also explain that given the dominance of the multi-national corporations internationally, it is necessary to link the struggle for socialism in Scotland with a movement of the working class across borders and continents with the aim of establishing a voluntary and democratic confederation of socialist states.
However, the declining support for independence in Scotland is also a result of a wider feeling that a small economy like Scotland could not hope to survive in a globalised world economy dominated by multinational corporations.
www.socialistworld.net /eng/2004/10/23scot.html   (2875 words)

  
 English Civic Nationalism - Gareth Young
"Nation" can mean one of two things; an ethnic nation, based on a common ethnicity, collective identity and culture; or a nation based on shared purpose, beliefs and common goals, usually founded on such principles as democracy and individualism.
Scottish nationalism was, and still is, a hybrid of civic and ethnic nationalism, but the path to independence - temporarily stalled by devolution - was driven mostly by ethnic nationalism and a deep-rooted pathological hatred of the English.
The United Kingdom was a nationality not a nation, one that had taught 'its citizens at one and the same time to glory both in the name of Scotsmen or Welshmen or Englishmen and in the name of Britons.' (Barker 1928: 17).
www.theenglandproject.net /documents/englishcivicnationalism.html   (1927 words)

  
 All 20 entries tagged Nationalism And Identity, Bartleby
While the nation was an accepted, albeit critically, central unit of analysis in a world where the nation-state, inter-national paradigm was predominant both within the academe and wider society, the penetration of ‘the market’ and its attendant ideology into the political economic fabric of the West has challenged this acceptance.
If minority nationalisms are to be understood as intelligent responses to exogenous changes in the political economy, this leaves peripheral regions who do not possess a distinct sense of nationess, something Rawkins perhaps mistaking calls “ethnic nationalism”, strategically disadvantaged from the outset, left to hang onto the coattails of an unresponsive and disinterested metropolitan core.
So, the nation and cerrtain forms of nationalism have been used by socialists as motivating discourses to achieve their ends, the logic (where the is one) being that the end justifies the means.
blogs.warwick.ac.uk /ajtaylor/tag/nationalism_and_identity   (8684 words)

  
 Stand up for Scotland and Scottish culture
Children in Scotland are studying the cultures of other countries as mandatory subjects, but the study of their own culture is optional and leaves many Scots children foreigners in their own land.
This campaign is about the 87% of Scots with no knowledge of Gaelic and ensuring that English medium pupils do not miss out on the cultural benefits that a Gaelic medium education offers.
This is not "mindwashing" or "petty nationalism" or anything of the sort - it is immersion in one's own culture, a healthy experience for anyone, and an experience that is repeated to the benefit of populations throughout the world.
www.siliconglen.com /culture/scotland.html   (3177 words)

  
 Irish Nationalism
Cultural nationalism attempted to address the "crisis of representation" alluded to earlier in which the Irish sought, for centuries in vain, to see themselves mirrored and represented in the society around them (Lloyd, 6).
Though Yeats acknowledges those who became national martyrs, it is clear the poet is disturbed not only by the violence they engaged in but by the level of their sacrifice which in a very real way transcended language.
Such a process is the heart that circulates the life-blood of a culture and the dominant theme of nationalism that Irish literature explores and reflects in all its facets is proof of the culture's continuing vitality.
www.cyberpat.com /shirlsite/essays/Irish.html   (3661 words)

  
 The Nationalism Project: Scottish Ethnic Nationalism by Eric G.E. Zuelow
While Scotland continued to suffer economically in the wake of the 1707 Treaty of Union, by the beginning of the nineteenth century, Scotland was rapidly becoming an economic cornerstone of the British Empire.
The realization that Scotland was benefiting from Union was not lost on the country's economic and political elite and a Whiggish view of history which painted Union as the evolutionary zenith quickly developed.
The mixture of "minority" government (in Scotland), immigration and the "Englishness" of British government combined to increase the feeling that Scotland was an internal colony of England.
www.nationalismproject.org /articles/zuelow1.htm   (6502 words)

  
 Nationalism Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The links are organized on the basis of the forms of nationalism described in the text: globalism, macro-cultural, nation state nationalism, ethno-nationalism, and localism.
National feeling can be built on diversity: see footnote 45 of Una Sekerez's paper on Nation and State building in Bosnia and Hercegovina.
The Rise (and Falling) of the Nation State, from the New Internationalist: a typical expression of the belief that nation states will be eroded by global co-operation of smaller (ethnic) entities.
www.socresonline.org.uk /2/1/natlinks.html   (3148 words)

  
 Nation Planet: nationalism resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nation states are past-oriented, in contrast to possible utopian states, oriented to a future goal.
Nations expect their members not to attack their 'own' national forces - meaning generally the forces of the country where they were born.
Museum of the Centre of Europe - this is in the section on nationalism, because it it used as a symbol of the uniqueness of Lithuania: the monument is a stone version of a distance signpost.
web.inter.nl.net /users/Paul.Treanor/plana.html   (16137 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Ad campaign to lift German morale
The campaign features a host of celebrities, including goalkeeper Oliver Kahn and former East German ice skating champion Katarina Witt.
The campaign is being supported by posters on the streets and adverts in newspapers featuring famous Germans like Albert Einstein and Ludwig van Beethoven.
The campaign is set to run for the next few months.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4294806.stm   (410 words)

  
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The nationalist movement in Scotland has been largely played out within the realm of parliamentary politics, in stark contrast to the violent sectarian militantism of their Celtic cousins just across the Irish Sea.
Period culminates in the formation of the Scottish National Party in 1934, from a merger of the SP and NPS (itself a conglomeration of many smaller groups).
Union of the Crowns: death of Elizabeth I w/o a direct heir means that James VI of Scotland (the son of Mary Queen of Scots) becomes King James I of England, uniting the two monarchies.
instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /courses/govt100.3/presentation.html   (1465 words)

  
 Image:Flag of Scotland.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also the traditional colour: Image:Flag of Scotland (traditional).svg.
This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its author, Kbolino.
Heart of Midlothian F.C. Secretary of State for Scotland
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Image:Flag_of_Scotland.svg   (218 words)

  
 Québec Independence
Analysts are misled by the heavily culture-laden rhetoric of the nationalist Québecois campaign.
This is because nationalist movements, whose agendas are often couched in the imagery of national languages, costumes, flags and history, are primarily driven by economic rather than cultural factors.
Once nationalism is perceived as being primarily influenced by Economics, events which cannot be explained solely from a cultural analysis point of view can be better understood.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/paulfitzgerald1/quebec.htm   (3075 words)

  
 newsBlog | Campaign for an English Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is a fundamental belief, and the axis around which the world’s politics revolve.
Scottish nationalism was, and still is, a hybrid of civic and ethnic nationalism, but the path to independence – temporarily stalled by devolution – was driven mostly by ethnic nationalism and a deep-rooted pathological hatred of the English.
Taken apart these things mean little, but taken together an immigrant to Scotland – and I lived there myself for five years – is left in little doubt as to what nation they are in.
www.thecep.org.uk /news/ViewItem.asp?Entry=731   (1969 words)

  
 The Nationalism Project: Articles Appearing in Scottish Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A Comparison of the Scots and English in Scotland.” Scottish Affairs Spring, no. 7 (1994): 112-134.
"Scotland's Parliament and Scottish Local Government: Conditions for a Stable Relationship." Scottish Affairs Spring, no. 19 (1997): 22-28.
"Political Constructions of National Identity in Scotland and Quebec." Scottish Affairs 29 (1999): 121-38.
www.nationalismproject.org /journals/scot.htm   (2158 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Politics - Salmond joins O'Brien to campaign against 'shameful' Act of Settlement
SNP leader Alex Salmond and Cardinal Keith O'Brien have agreed a pact to campaign against the 300-year old Act of Settlement, the law which bars Catholics from becoming King or Queen.
SNP party chiefs have seen it as crucial to eat into the Catholic community's traditional support for Labour, if they are to make inroads into their rivals' grip on central Scotland.
Salmond penned an article for Winning's church newspaper and was rewarded by the cardinal's declaration that Scottish nationalism was "mature, respectful and international in outlook".
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=892782006   (738 words)

  
 BBC News | SCOTLAND | SNP leader flags up English nationalism
The SNP leader said it was "fascinating" to watch the reawakening of the English national identity and suggested that this process was "more positive" than some people had claimed.
Mr Swinney attributed that to the success of Scotland's campaign for self-government.
He said the resurgence of English nationalism in recent years was changing concepts of "Britishness".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/1944910.stm   (579 words)

  
 newsBlog | Campaign for an English Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nationality in this debate is moot, it is about where you live (mostly).
They will continue to sell other foreign tops in Scotland (obviously these are less 'offensive') and they will continue to make money in England by selling the offensive England merchandise to an English public that is ignorant of the store's policy up in Scotland.
The British government will remain for non-devolved matters, but for those matters which concern real people in England, an English Parliament will be able to ensure that their employment needs are met, no matter what their political position.
thecep.org.uk /news/ViewCat.asp?Cat=campaign   (1447 words)

  
 The Scots Independent Newspaper Online - The Flag in the Wind
And react against Thatcherism Scotland certainly did, the watershed for many in middle Scotland coming with the infamous 'sermon on the mound' which proclaimed that society didn’t exist.
Its hard not to argue that Scotland emerged from the Thatcherite kiln with a far stronger sense of herself as a political and cultural entity.
For all their past nonsensical claims that an Independent Scotland would become like Albania, sufficient people were still prepared to believe enough of Labour's fears and smears for them to be effective.
www.scotsindependent.org /index.htm   (4160 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Mecca Cola challenges US rival
Popular anger against the United States over its support for Israel amid the Palestinian intifada has sparked a campaign to boycott American products throughout Arab countries.
US exports to Saudi Arabia declined by more than 40% in the first three months of 2002.
The other 10% is passed on to NGOs based in Europe who are working to promote peace around the world, he said.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2640259.stm   (673 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Scotland: Society and Culture: Politics
Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - Resources and contact information for the 'ban the bomb' movement in Scotland.
Siol nan Gaidheal - The Scottish Cultural and Fraternal Organisation, campaigning for an independent Scotland, with a comprehensive history of Scottish nationalism and of the Knights Templar in Scotland.
The Skakagrall - An independent weblog for the Scottish National Party (SNP), Scotland and Europe, covering political, economic, and social affairs, the environment, the arts, and tourism.
dmoz.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Society_and_Culture/Politics   (384 words)

  
 Scottish Government and Politics on the Internet
Scotland's Parliament: Devolution, the Media and Political Culture by Phillip Schlesinger (1998)
The Citizen - Quarterly journal of the Campaign for Socialism
Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland
www.keele.ac.uk /depts/por/scotland.htm   (196 words)

  
 Books by Andrew Dewar - Fighter Jets - 0794602207 discount book sellers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) is a centre-left political party who favours Scottish independence.It currently regularly polls the second highest number of votes for a political party in Scotland.
Scotland Lives: the Quest for Independence, by Billy Wolfe, 1973
Scotland: the Case for Optimism, by Jim Sillars, 1985
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