SSP councillor’s Israeli arms boycott backed
West Dunbartonshire Council has unanimously backed a motion from SSP councillor for the Leven ward, Jim Bollan, opposing council pension funds investing in firms supplying ...
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A people’s manifesto
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson We should be proud of our manifesto which is a blueprint for our policies. Policies which present our vision of independence ...
How can alliances for socialism be built?
Antonio Gramsci – A Great and Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters, 1908-1926 edited and translated by Derek Boothman. Published by Lawrence & Wishart by Bill Bonnar ...
Amsterdam students force Uni rethink
by Jack Ferguson, in Amsterdam The student movement at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has scored a symbolic victory with the resignation of the President of the Executive ...
Vietnam’s ‘Great Spring Victory’ over the US – forty years on
Bill Bonnar gives a personal recollection Picture the scene. It is 1am in Moscow on May 1st 1975; 40 years ago. I was an 18 year old on a delegation walking home to my hotel. ...
What’s the reality behind the Iran nuclear ‘deal’?
by Bill Bonnar Iran does not have nuclear weapons. There is no evidence anywhere that it has ambitions to develop such weapons. Even if it did it would not have the capacity ...
After Netanyahu victory, what next?
by Bill Bonnar The general election in Israel last week saw the re-election of a reactionary, hawkish government and represents a blow to any kind of peace process in the ...
Neoliberal policies spark Amsterdam student protests
by Jack Ferguson, in Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been rocked by an escalating series of dramatic student protests. A movement has been gathering since the ...
Libya in turmoil four years after NATO bombing
by Bill Bonnar In 2011, Nato attacked Libya at the head of a reactionary alliance leading to the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime and the effective collapse of the country. ...
New Cold War at heart of Ukraine crisis
by Bill Bonnar During the Cuban missile crisis of 1963 the American Government declared that it would never accept enemy nuclear weapons located near its borders nor would it ...
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