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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Benn Rapson’s face is instantly recognisable to many Glasgow students. Just over a year ago, he was elected as president of the students’ union at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland’s third-largest university, with around three-quarters of the 1,123 votes – a testament to his frenetic campaigning over his five years of involvement in the student…
It is a little over a week since P&O Ferries caused revulsion across the UK after sacking 800 seafarers via Zoom. This was the avarice of bandit capitalism laid bare and the general public recoiled in horror as the mask slipped to reveal the naked greed and callousness beneath.
The RSP are reposting this interview by Shaun Matsheza and Nick Buxton with two activists on the editorial board of the left Commons journal that explores and analyses Ukraine’s economy, politics, history and culture.
