Murdered Palestinian workers have been remembered at events which have taken place around Scotland to mark International Workers’ Memorial Day. Starting with the West Lothian ceremony in Bathgate on Friday 25 April, Lewis from our trade union organising group spoke on behalf of his union the FBU, highlighting the suffering of Palestinian workers. In Edinburgh…
SPSC Statement19 April 2025 SPSC’s primary purpose is to channel public opposition to the Zionist settler colonial project and to work to build effective solidarity with the Palestinian people as an extension to their struggle for freedom against Israel’s programme of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, occupation and genocide in Palestine. This means standing against the complicity…
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SPSC’s founding member, Mick Napier, visited some Palestinian refugee camps and political contacts in Lebanon in February 2025. That visit coincided with the gathering of enormous crowds for the funeral of the assassinated Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Mick then returned to Scotland and was met by the political police. Letter to Police Scotland, 16 April…
SPSC Statement, 14 April 2025 In every struggle against the ultraviolence of colonialism and empire prisoners play a central role; their prestige derived from the huge sacrifices they have made in the national struggle for freedom. Today, Israel’s brutality and violence have escalated not only in Gaza, the Occupied West Bank, but also against those…
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URGENTGather tomorrow (Fri) at BMA House, London at noonThe BMA has cancelled a talk Dr Swee Ang, NHS doctor, founder of MAP (Medical Aid for Palestine), survivor of the Israeli-sponsored massacre in Sabra & Shatilla is sheduled to give at BMA House tomorrow. Swee Ang will instead deliver her talk outside the BMA HQ front…
Continue Reading BMA cancels talk by Swee Ang – latest move to silence pro-Palestine voices
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) expresses our full solidarity with Erik Helgeson, who was informed by the Port of Gothenburg, that they intend to dismiss him for allegedly violating the law on state security. This decision was taken after the Swedish Dockworkers Union voted to hold a six-day blockade against ships transporting military equipment to…