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
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…
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For the first time the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) along with counterparts in England & Wales (TUC) and Ireland (ICTU) are joining us in supporting a workplace day of action for Palestine! This takes place next Thursday 14 May. The Palestinian BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian coalition leading the global BDS movement, has called on workers,…
Continue Reading Join Trade Union and Worker led Actions on 14th May in Solidarity with Palestine
The same politicians who support Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine have responded to an attack that injured two Jewish Londoners by calling for a ban on demonstrations against that genocide.The UK government contributes a range of services to Israel’s genocide project: weapons, military training, public relations, RAF real-time intelligence, and the criminalisation and jailing of…
SPSC, 23 March 2026 After 2½ years of genocide in Gaza, Israel is escalating its violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and once again invading and bombing Lebanon. Israel and the US launched an unprovoked surprise attack on Iran, assassinated the head of state and other senior government figures, and targeted schools, hospitals, key…
Continue Reading Where does Scotland stand in this illegal war?
After 30 months of intensified genocide in Gaza — and 77 years of its slower-motion predecessor — many concluded that nothing could stop an increasingly exterminatory Israeli state from escalating its crimes. Now Israel and the United States appear to be facing the consequences of a gigantic miscalculation. Less than two weeks after launching their…