For years, Unity Trust has marketed itself as an “ethical bank”. The bank’s recent move to freeze SPSC’s bank account aligns the bank with those seeking to silence legitimate criticism of the Israel’s actions in Palestine
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign sends May Day greetings to all those struggling against the racism that seeks to divide workers everywhere. Palestinian trade unions and workers struggle under a brutal apartheid regime for even the most minimal human and labour rights. Please remember the May 1st 1948 racist killing of 70 Palestinian villagers in Ayn…
Andrew Ross is speaking at meetings across Scotland on his latest book, Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel. The main content of Stone Men comes from interviews with Palestinian building workers across Palestine/Israel, in the reporting and analysis of which, Omar Barghouti, a founder of the Palestinian BDS movement, writes that “Ross takes…
Continue Reading They Demolish Our Houses While We Build Theirs
28 April 2017 by Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTUC-BDS)From bdsmovement.net On May Day, we Palestinian trade unions are proud to stand with the trade union movement internationally as we collectively resist attacks on our working conditions, cuts to public services and job losses. We lend our voices to the mass rallies taking place…
Continue Reading May Day: Palestinian trade unions call for intensifying BDS
Campaigners welcome STUC statement on solidarity with Palestinian workers Media Release, 1 May 2017 [Pictured right: Ryvka Barnard of War on Want speaking at joint War on Want, Unison Scotland & Scottish PSC fringe meeting STUC 2017 – with Sam Macartney, Chair of Unison Scotland International Committee & Fiona Napier, Chair of SPSC Aberdeen.] Campaigners…
Continue Reading Media Release: Campaigners welcome STUC statement
At its 2013 Annual Congress in Perth, the Scottish Trades Union Council (STUC) re-affirmed its support for the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and extended the scope of its campaign to include G4S. A series of delegates queued to speak in support of the motion which was carried nem con, with…