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…
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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…
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) expresses our full solidarity with Erik Helgeson, who was informed by the Port of Gothenburg, that they intend to dismiss him for allegedly violating the law on state security. This decision was taken after the Swedish Dockworkers Union voted to hold a six-day blockade against ships transporting military equipment to…
28 September 2024 Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) welcomes the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) Black Workers’ Conference unanimous vote to adopt a raft of actions in solidarity with Palestine. These include taking practical action by stepping up the BDS campaign, endorsing the Apartheid Free Zones campaign, and campaigning for divestment of Union and workers…
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The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign mourns the passing recently of a giant of the Trade Union movement. The great Bob Fulton having passed away at the age of 101. A Trade Unionist and anti-fascist, it was at Rolls Royce in East Kilbride back in 1974 that Bob and his comrades’ defiant and principled refusal to…
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This is a stirring example of international solidarity from Scotland to the victims of the fascist regime in Chile at that time. The Palestinians suffer under an equally bestial regime – worse, if anything – and the UK Government similarly is in solidarity with the killers. Glasgow is officially twinned with the Palestinian city of…
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