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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 ...

Celtic fans’ £188,800 Palestine solidarity

September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

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

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

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

June 10, 2016 // 1 Comment

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 ...

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