International

‘Important social issues are handled with insight and compassion…’

August 10, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Deadly Promise by Gilou Bareau. Published by Folrose Book review by Elizabeth Stitt · The Deadly Promise is so much more than an absorbing read — which it is. Important social issues such as ...

Poland: near-total abortion ban has become a reality

February 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

by Magdalena Grzymkowska · An objectionable near-total ban on abortion in Poland has taken effect, after a judicial government-controlled body’s decision came into force on 27 January, 2021. This ...

Latin America epicentre of drive for socialist change

December 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar · The election for the National Assembly in Venezuela produced the expected landslide victory for the Socialist Party; expected because the right-wing opposition boycotted the poll. ...

Surge of action essential if space warfare is to be avoided

July 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by David Webb, chair of UK CND · The US and the UK claim that they have caught Russia making an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test. Testing an ASAT weapon is not unusual—the US, Russia, China and ...

US waging an economic war on Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

SSP International Secretary Bill Bonnar reports back from his visit to Caracas in Venezuela · In April, the Scottish Socialist Party released a statement in support of the Venezuelan Revolution and ...

Building solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution: why the SSP is visiting Venezuela

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar, SSP International Secretary · Later this month I will be representing the Scottish Socialist Party on a solidarity visit to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. The SSP has been clear in ...

Congo: the new era

March 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Debora Kayembe · International outrage and one of the first major human rights campaigns in modern history led to the Belgian government taking Congo off King Leopold’s hands and annexing it. ...

Don’t believe the hype: support the Venezuelan Revolution

March 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar, SSP international secretary · In 2010 Haiti, a close neighbour of Cuba, was hit by a devastating earthquake. The impact on the poverty shattered people of that country was almost ...

Rosa Luxemburg: socialist icon

January 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Turbett • 100 years ago this month, Rosa Luxemburg was beaten up and shot dead in Berlin by Freikorps members, the forerunners of the Nazis, on the implicit orders of the leaders of the ...

Pakistan’s most rigged general elections

August 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Farooq Tariq, Spokesperson, Awami Workers Party, in Pakistan • On 26 July 2018, in his election victory speech, Imran Khan gave a sober talk contrary to his very violent language used throughout ...