Bombing won’t bring peace in Syria or security in Scotland
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 ...
International
What should socialists do about the EU?
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 ...
Left score big gains in Spain
Spanish local elections: ‘Sí, se puede!’ Yes, you can! by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona Well before the polling stations closed we knew that something special was happening ...
Why has the US blockade on Cuba been lifted?
by Bill Bonnar It will come as a relief to the peoples of the world that Cuba has now been removed from the list of ‘rogue nations sponsoring international terrorism’. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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