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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 ...

June 26 Spanish elections: left government in sight?

May 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

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

April 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

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

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

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?

August 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 ...

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