Kurds’ ultimate fight for democracy
by Sean Baillie • As part of a delegation organised by the Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan campaign, I was invited to the Democratic Union Party’s (PYD) 8th Congress, joining Dr Jan Xal a ...
International
Education under occupation
by Hugh Cullen, SSP member • I spent September in Al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank, Palestine. I was working with International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led ...
Celtic fans’ £188,800 Palestine solidarity
by Liam McLaughlin • Voice readers will be probably be aware that in the most recent home match in the Uefa Champions League, Celtic fans were beamed across TV screens and social media channels ...
Visiting Kurdish MP asks for solidarity
by Stephen Smellie, Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan • Leyla Birlik is the MP for Sirnak in South Eastern Turkey. She is a member of the People’s Democracy Party (HDP) for the town which voted ...
Turkish president wages war on Kurds and stages a parliamentary coup
by Stephen Smellie, co-convenor, Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan Since Turkish President Erdogan decided that the peace talks with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) were to be abandoned in ...
June 26 Spanish elections: left government in sight?
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Five months after the December 20 Spanish elections failed to produce a government, the country is again going to the polls in the most polarised election since the ...
French Indignados and the new movement #NuitDeboutPartout in March 2016
For those who do not speak French, ‘Nuit Debout Partout’ means ‘Night (that is) Standing Everywhere’, Sophia Lycouris writes. This term started as ‘Nuit Debout’, a poetic expression ...
Bombing won’t bring peace in Syria or security in Scotland
by Bill Bonnar Bombing Syria is not a strategy. It is what you do when you don’t have a strategy. The government want to use the bombings in Paris as an excuse to start a bombing campaign. This is ...
What should socialists do about the EU?
by Bill Bonnar Britain is a capitalist country operating within the EU. If Britain decides to withdraw from the EU it will still be a capitalist country. The principle aim of the left is to transform ...
Left score big gains in Spain
Spanish local elections: ‘Sí, se puede!’ Yes, you can! by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona Well before the polling stations closed we knew that something special was happening in the May 24 Spanish ...
