All Republic members are welcome and we’ll be discussing plans for the jubilee, protests in Edinburgh during the Queen’s visit and our event at the Scottish Parliament.

It will be in the bar of the County Hotel, 22 – 30 County Place, PH2 8EE

All members are welcome. We will be discussing our upcoming event at the Scottish Parliament and developments with jubilee protest plans.

View the full story about yesterday’s protest, plus information about other protests planned in the run-up to the jubilee on the Republic website here.

The meeting is at Dow’s Bar, 9 Dundas Street, Glasgow, G1 2AH – right next to Queen’s Street station.

Republic’s campaign manager, Graham Smith, will be there to talk about our plans for the jubilee and to discuss how supporters in Scotland can play a role in the campaign. The evening will include:

• An introduction to Republic’s jubilee campaign plans
• A discussion of the arguments and the case against the monarchy
• Planning actions, events and protests in Scotland

RSVP by sending an email to graham@republic.org.uk.

Next year we want our campaign to stretch up and down the full length of the UK, that means we want to see some big events happening in Scotland.

Now is the time to get organised. We want to hear from anyone interested in putting together some events over the coming months to promote Republic Scotland.

Contact us at enquiries@republic.org.uk to get involved.

We’re currently looking for volunteers and committee members to take up the challenge of campaigning in around Scotland in support of our cause.

Some monarchists claim that opposition to the monarchy is treason against the country. This is demonstrably untrue. To support the monarchy is the true treason, because the monarchy is the embodiment of the notion that one person is superior to the other sixty million on account of passing through one particular womb.

But to claim that republicanism is treacherous also destroys any monarchist’s claim to be in favour of democracy. It is a crime against democracy, freedom of speech and, consequently, humanity to argue that somebody does not have the right to speak out against an abhorrent and disgusting institution. Are these the same people who feel they are in a position to pontificate to the Iranians or the Zimbabweans or the North Koreans about democracy and freedom of speech?

It is currently an issue of ambiguity as to whether it is legal to advocate the abolition of the monarchy in Britain. Section 3(a) of the Treason Felony Act 1848 makes it an offence for any person (British subject or not) to call for the abolition of the monarchy. In a 2003 House of Lords case brought by The Guardian newspaper against the Attorney General, the Lords declined to decide whether it was a criminal offence to advocate republicanism in Britain since no prosecutions under section 3 had been brought since 1883 and none were th