The Palestinian labour movement has reiterated its solidarity with workers across the world resisting all forms of oppression and called for global action to end complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide and apartheid from Friday, November 20th leading up to the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Sunday, November 29th 2026. Scottish workers…
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Today marks the anniversary of a monstrous crime: the 1973 British-backed bloodbath launched by the overthrow of the elected government of Chile in a military coup. Listen to Chilean Scot, Carlos Arredondo, remembering 11 September 1973 The Pinochet dictatorship proceeded to kill, torture and exile thousands of citizens over the following 17 years. This was…
Continue Reading Condemning the crime of 9/11 and remembering the victims
6 September 2026 We are shocked and saddened to hear of SPSC member Naomi Junnor’s sudden passing. Naomi was a trade union, anti-racist and Palestine solidarity activist, never afraid to bring these areas of work together. Her courage ran deep; as a Jewish anti-Zionist, she lost support and contact with many family members due to…
When the curtain rises in a few days on the 2026 Edinburgh International Film Festival, we can celebrate 20 years of keeping this internationally respected film festival free of any sponsorship and involvement by the genocidal state. In 2006, the EIFF accepted finance from the Israeli Embassy in London and only a determined SPSC-led campaign…
Continue Reading 2006-26 Successful Cultural Boycott in Scotland
The Scottish Government, once again, is telling us they are aligned with the establishment As Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon travelled to the US to meet with think tanks making sure they understood that Scotland’s approach to foreign affairs, particularly in the Middle East, did not vary much from the UK government. It appears that…
Continue Reading Scottish Government: inaction on BDS commitment
SPSC calls on all our members and supporters to attend the demonstration on Saturday 27 June at 1 pm in Montgomery Street Park, Edinburgh. Palestine is at the heart of the current struggle against the rise of the far-right on our streets. The state of Israel is an ethnonationalist regime driven by a deeply racist…
Continue Reading Reclaim our streets – Stand for equality, justice and freedom for all