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Catalan movement struggles for united strategy against the Spanish state

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • “General strike!”, “General strike!”, “General strike!”: in protests across the whole of Catalonia after the March 23 jailing of five MPs and the March ...

Battle lines in the December 21 Catalan election

November 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • The December 21 election in Catalonia, called by Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, will be a plebiscite on his government’s October 27 sacking of the ...

The coup against Catalonia: what resistance strategy?

November 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Everyone had been expecting a war of position: the Spanish state would behead the Catalan government, sack its senior executives, purge the Catalan police, public ...

Catalonia’s referendum: a triumph for democracy built on people’s power

October 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Is it possible to have a successful referendum when your country is effectively occupied by 10,000 police and paramilitaries with orders to stop it? The holding of ...

Left faces crackdown after vibrant G20 protests

August 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Connor Beaton, in Hamburg • We terrified the establishment at the G20 Summit in Hamburg. Now, they’re fighting back. The Scottish Socialist Party was there—a handful of activists clutching ...

The left must educate, agitate, organise

February 9, 2017 // 1 Comment

by Jenni Gunn • In many years to come, when historians look back at Trump’s (hopefully short) presidency, they will look to the women’s marches in the wake of his inauguration as the beginning ...

Trump, the US election and what lies ahead

January 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Robert W McChesney, in the United States • For the past eight weeks, almost everyone on the American left—or to use the vernacular, the progressive community—has been addressing the Trump ...

Dutch far right: text book lesson harnessing failures of globalisation

December 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Jack Ferguson, in Amsterdam • December 9th marked the culmination of a two-year publicity stunt by the leader of the modern Dutch far right, Geert Wilders. The leader and founder of the Party ...

Kurds’ ultimate fight for democracy

October 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 ...

Education under occupation

October 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 ...