Military bases in the spotlight
David Mackenzie reports • Several hundred folk from at least 35 countries gathered in Dublin on 16-18 November for a conference about US and NATO military bases worldwide. Over the two days there ...
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Ali: one man who shook the world
by Simon Whittle, Scottish Socialist Voice deputy editor • If John Lennon was bigger than Jesus, then Muhammad Ali was bigger than God. He transcended 1960s racist America to become the world’s ...
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’. This gesture from the ...
Chilcot: if it looks like a cover up, it probably is a cover up
Bill Bonnar looks at the long running Chilcot Iraq saga If it looks like a cover up and sounds like a cover up it probably is a cover up. The decision to kick the outcome of the Chilcot Inquiry into ...
Lifting the US blockade is a victory for the Cuban Revolution
by Bill Bonnar In 2009 I had the great privilege of being part of an SSP delegation to Havana to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. While there two things were striking. The ...
Democracy under threat in South Korea
by Connor Beaton The Interview’s odyssey from production to release dominated the international news circuit in the run-up to Christmas 2014. This would-be blockbuster’s 25 December launch was ...
TTIP: a threat to democracy
by Bill Newman The innocent-sounding US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is currently being prepared behind closed doors by overpaid corporate lawyers for passage through the ...
