April 2023 For the first time, the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) has recognised Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people as apartheid. Over 350 delegates voted to pass the ‘Solidarity with Palestine’ motion, denouncing Israel’s continuing occupation of Palestine, reaffirming their support for the Palestinian people’s struggle for justice and calling on practical forms of…
BREAKING NEWS: Thanks to all the constituents writing to their MSPs to protest, the normalisation event at the Scottish Parliament has been cancelled! 14 November 2022 Scottish PSC calls for the ‘Friends of Roots UK’ event scheduled to take place at the Scottish Parliament on 16 November to be cancelled and for all who support…
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign condemns in the strongest terms the recent massacres in Gaza. Once again, Israel unleashes state of the art weaponry on a captive, imprisoned population, while Western governments look on, nodding their approval. Worse are those that claim to support Palestinian rights yet remain silent, refusing to condemn and sanction Israel for…
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Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign lost a member, Mundher Al-Adhami, who passed away on 11 March in Tunis. Mundher was an Iraqi activist, born in Baghdad in 1942 who joined and led opposition to dictatorships in Iraq and the Arab world. Since 1990 he fought the policies of siege and war led by the United States…
Scottish PSC Statement On 21 March 1960 the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 peaceful demonstrators who were protesting aègainst the apartheid ‘pass laws’. On this day every year the UN observes the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and is marked in many parts of the world in…
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Nicola Sturgeon has come under pressure over the Scottish Government’s adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism with respect to the ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the Scottish Green Party (SGP) which includes elected representatives of the Green Party in government. The Scottish Green Party have refused to sign up to the…
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