The RSP has donated £200 to the Communication Workers Union’s hardship fund for striking Royal Mail workers.
Announcing Heckle, our new online magazine
Heckle is the new online magazine of the Republican Socialist Platform.
STATEMENT: Police repression of republicanism must end
The Republican Socialist Platform unconditionally condemns Police Scotland’s harassment, detention and attempted criminalisation of peaceful protesters in Edinburgh and Glasgow over the past few days.
Urgent financial appeal to aid the Ukrainian mineworkers’ resistance
The Republican Socialist Platform is proud to have contributed £200 to the urgent financial appeal from trade unionists in Pavlograd, Ukraine. We are republishing below the appeal as first shared on the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign website last month. Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the mining communities of Donbas have faced relentless attack and…
STATEMENT: We have just 16 months to build a republican movement
The setting of a date – 19th October 2023 – for a new referendum on Scottish independence is an important and welcome development. This is a stronger commitment from a Scottish government to a new poll than at any point since September 2014, and comes as the democratic, economic and ecological crises of the UK…
Cairnryan blockaders pledge to return
Michael MacLeod, seafaring RMT member, reports on last week’s blockade at Cairnryan in solidarity with sacked P&O Ferries workers. Last Friday, the RMT, fellow trade unionists and comrades from across Scotland returned to Cairnryan to show P&O Ferries that their actions in sacking 800 workers in the St Patrick’s Day Massacre have not been forgotten.…
Election 2022: Fuel poverty takes centre stage for Paisley campaigner
Politics has always been deeply personal for Sandra Webster. A single mother-of-three who cares for two autistic sons, one with chronic renal failure and another with cerebral palsy, she cut her teeth in the long-running community-led campaign to save the children’s ward at the Royal Alexandria Hospital in Paisley. Just before the campaign started in…
Election 2022: Breaking new ground for the Greens in Blantyre
As a young schoolkid in primary three, David McClemont was given a homework exercise where he had to show he could use various words in a sentence. “One of the words was ‘witch’ and so I wrote ‘Maggie Thatcher is a witch’,” he recalls. “My teacher must have been quite left-wing, because I don’t remember…
Election 2022: Community Party aims to double headaches for council officials
Jim Bollan is proud of the number of times he has been hauled before the watchdog for councillors’ conduct. Most recently, the veteran socialist councillor was brought before the Standards Commission to answer 37 allegations brought by the CEO of West Dunbartonshire Council after he made public details of a hushed-up internal probe into corruption…
Election 2022: Scalloway’s socialist champion bids for re-election
Six months into the pandemic, as the public health crisis and its gross mishandling in London hardened public opinion in support of Scottish independence, Shetland made a rare appearance in UK headlines. The islands’ local authority had just voted to formally explore options for achieving “financial and political self-determination”, a move seized upon by unionist…