The left must educate, agitate, organise
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 ...
International
Trump, the US election and what lies ahead
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
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
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
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 ...
