The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) held its annual general meeting earlier this month in Dundee.
The Perils Of Unity
Eric Chester (RCN) takes a critical look at the proposed Left Unity Party. The Crisis of Capitalism has led to a polarisation of political viewpoints, as a widening segment of the working class feels the devastating impact of the downturn in decreasing wages and benefits, and the rapid deterioration of social services. The Labour party…
Isolate ‘Apartheid’ Israel
Nick Clarke analyses the latest stages of Israel’s war on the Palestinians and the role of the solidarity movement As the media spotlight on Israel’s latest re-invasion and brutal bombardment of Gaza begins to dim, the Israeli state’s punishment of the Palestinian people continues. The explicit aims of the new year invasion were to stop…
Imperialism’s Nuclear Hypocrisy
Nick Clarke exposes Labour’s double standards when it comes nuclear issues Nothing better illustrates the hypocrisy of imperialism and its apologists at the United Nations than the nuclear issue. The break up of the Soviet Union and the subsequent diplomatic thaw ended the Cold War. The peace dividend that was supposed to flow from this…
Facing up to the Challenge
Nick Clarke looks at the Left’s response to G8 Over a year ago, comrades from the anti-capitalist movement, Globalise Resistance and the Scottish Socialist Party came together to create G8 Alternatives. G8 Alternatives immediately started organising, agitating, and campaigning to make sure that, when the world’s leading imperialists turned up at Gleneagles in July, they…
Make Poverty History, Make Capitalism History, Fight For Socialism Today
Nick Clarke examines the reality behind the G8 agenda and looks at the alternative Blair’s presidency As the leaders of the G8 countries, together with their overpaid, overfed and self important delegations, meet at the luxurious Gleneagles estate in the Perthshire countryside, we welcome protesters to Scotland from a myriad of campaigns, pressure groups and…
Tsunami: an act of nature and the laws of capitalism
Nick Clarke looks at the global reaction to the tsunami and how capitalism is responsible for the human consequences. The devastating tsunami that smashed through the coastal areas of countries that ring the Indian Ocean on December 26th exposed the contradictions and contrasts that exist across the globe in the 21st Century. This ‘act of…
Occupation is not liberation
Reflecting on recent events at home and abroad, Nick Clarke examines whether the world today is a freer, safer place. Freedom to profit In the aftermath of the atrocities of September 11 2001, Bush and his ruling junta declared the start of the War on Terror. The subtitle for this crusade was to make the…
Blair, Bush and the Iraqi occupation: reality bites
With a secure and supplicant Iraq still a long way off, Nick Clarke looks at the reality that faces Bush and his War on Terror and Blair and his weapons of mass destruction. On May 1st, President Bush announced the official end of the second war with Iraq. Four months later, barely a day fails…
Unfinished Business: 11 September, one year on
Twelve months after the attacks on New York & Washington, Nick Clarke examines what their impact has been internationally It is now one year since two passenger jets were piloted into the World Trade Centre’s Twin Towers, while another was diverted into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. The images of the attack…