Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign are bringing Dockworker and trade union activist Erik Helgeson to Scotland in April.A leading figure in the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union, Erik helped organise industrial action for Palestine and became a symbol of workers standing up for principles in the face of union-busting attacks. Sharing lessons from the front line of international…
Over two years into the genocide, many workers across Scotland remain committed to taking action for Palestine but are unsure how to do so. Scottish PSC are working with partners to deliver a Workers Day School for Palestine on Saturday April 11th, this one-day event asks: What can we, as workers, do to go from…
The Jimmy Reid Foundation 2025 Annual Lecture: Deepening Solidarity with Palestine: The Jimmy Reid Foundation (JRF), a Scottish think tank rooted in the values of economic, environmental, political, and social justice, continues to build on the legacy of legendary trade unionist and activist Jimmy Reid. Best known for leading the historic Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ “work-in,”…
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) are joining a UK wide call to take action in workplaces on Thursday 9 October. Actions may be big or small — what matters is making our solidarity impossible to ignore. Some ideas – Organise a demo — bring pots and pans & make a noiseWork-to-rule / walkout as appropriateOrganise…
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The Palestinian Trade Unions have issued the following 2025 May Day Statement Israel is only able to continue its livestreamed genocide against Palestinians, including daily massacres, burning our children, men and women alive, or starving and thirsting them to death, due to the ongoing complicity of states, companies and institutions around the world. On this…
Continue Reading Palestinian Trade Unions’ May Day Statement – No complicity with Apartheid
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…