tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52963687269783505642024-03-05T07:10:16.460+00:00SSP CampsieScottish Socialist Party Campsie Branch covers the Campsie area/East Dunbartonshire Constituency.
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In today's podcast (on the day Scotland saw an eclipse of the sun!): Allan Grogan, co-founder of Labour For Independence and now SSP, talking about how the SNP majority council through in Dundee is now letting down the majority working class yes voters; Ron Mackay on the increasing danger of nuclear war; Calum Martin on how Scottish Politics were changed by the French revolution; Beinn Irbhinn on splitting the Yes vote and Hollie Cameron on how social media and the main stream media may be putting off powerful political women from coming to the fore.<br /><br />We have music from Scottish bands <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Thecundeez">The Cundeez </a>and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/buttonupband">Button Up</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/joesoloshow">Joe Solo</a> and <a href="http://www.leadbelly.org/">Lead Belly</a>. </span>Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959528685165205482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-45960294933305973562015-03-06T15:37:00.000+00:002015-03-06T15:39:31.525+00:00I AM HERE AS THE ACCUSER, OF CAPITALISM DRIPPING WITH BLOOD FROM HEAD TO FOOT.<iframe data-link="http://www.podbean.com/media/player/audio/postId/5522950?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsspcampsie.podbean.com%2Fe%2Fi-am-here-as-the-accuser-of-capitalism-dripping-with-blood-from-head-to-foot%2F" data-name="pb-iframe-player" frameborder="0" height="100" id="audio_iframe" scrolling="no" src="http://www.podbean.com/media/player/audio/postId/5522950?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsspcampsie.podbean.com%2Fe%2Fi-am-here-as-the-accuser-of-capitalism-dripping-with-blood-from-head-to-foot%2F" width="100%"></iframe><br />
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The CD no lefty should be without… (buy it here - <a href="http://www.philosophyfootball.com/view_item.php?pid=1200">http://www.philosophyfootball.com/view_item.php?pid=1200</a> )<br />
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The Wakes, The John Maclean MarchNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959528685165205482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-64963118464088794452015-03-02T14:22:00.000+00:002015-03-02T14:22:35.680+00:00Cowabunga! Willie Telfer exposes @joswinson's tax free slice...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959528685165205482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-55853052587590029772015-03-02T14:17:00.000+00:002015-03-02T14:17:36.500+00:00Make PEACE a #ge2015 election issue! - opinion by Ron Mackay<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />Since 6th.Aug. 1945 I've opposed nuclear weapons. I've protested at Aldermaston, Dunoon and Faslane many times. I'm very worried at international developments. Russia has nuclear weapons – they're all in Russia. China has nuclear weapons they're all in China. The U.S. Has nuclear weapons but they're in Germany, Poland , and bases arround Russia and in Turkey and elsewhere<br /><br />NATO is an aggressive, nuclear armed military alliance under U.S. Control.<br /><br />I read Professor Tyler Cowan an economist at a U.S. University said a big war is needed to settle the economy. Amazon recently displayed a book -”Winter Kill – war with China has already begun “ There have already been 2 Wws essentially caused by economic problems. Are we to have a 3rd.<br /><br />The winners in the first 2 WW s were the U.S. Bankers and arms manufactures. We are 20 mls. From a nuclear arms dump. <div>
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The position is serious.<br /><br />I'm a long standing member of CND (google Ron Mackay and his peace activism and you'll find me on U tube). I've been against nuclear weapons since the first one was dropped on the 6th.of August 1945. The planet is in its most dangerous situation ever. The present generation has the power to change life on the planet or to destroy all life on the planet. Many eminent individuals are warning that the situation is extremely serious. Naom Chomsky, John Pilger, Michel Chossudovsky and many others have voiced their concern.<br /><br />We've had 2 world wars caused essentially by economic problems. The big capitalist powers have serious economic problems. Has there to be a third world war ? The signs are ominous.<br /><br />The Westminster warmongers are spending £ billions, not just on trident and other nuclear weapons but on huge military projects. The US policy of perpetual war which our defence “experts” slavishly follow throws a heavy burden on the welfare state. Warfare and welfare are incompatible. The media plays a significant part in promoting war propaganda . It is a powerful opponent of the peace forces. We badly need a strong active socialist peace movement which can accommodate the socialists in the LP, in the SNP, in the Greens, in the SSP , in the CP and all the other socialists some of whom are in no political party. We have much in common not just peace but anti-trident, anti-austerity, green issues etc. This need is urgent and vital. This matter should be raised at every meeting held as we approach the elections.</div>
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This week on the SSP Podcast, we have members from SSP Glasgow Central Branch on Zero Hours Contracts; wages in the NHS and Don McKeen with an invite to what sounds like a really interesting talk at the Yes Bar - details on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/586826781453964/?context=create&previousaction=create&ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49&sid_create=885081962" title="Nein Quarterly">HERE</a>, Jenni Gunn speaking about every day sexism, Beinn Irbhinn on aspects of our socialist language, Wendy MacDonald on the SSP policy of the citizen’s income and as the SSP does not claim to have a monopoly on socialism - Debra Torrance from the SNP on sustainable energy and hot tubs!</div>
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In this podcast: SSP Spokeswoman, Sandra Webster on her experiences of being a carer in Tory ruled Scotland, me on the patriotic fracking nonsense of the labour party, Lewis Akers on being a young SSP activist and Tommy Ball with this weeks political round up.<br />
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Roy Moller from his latest album, My Week Beats Your Year, on Stereogram recordings - “Captivity.”
The Cathode Ray – “Resist” and St Christopher Medal: "Vatersay Love Song,” also on Stereogram recordings.
Joe Solo - No Pasaran (The Ballad of Jack Atkinson) And his track with Rebekah Findlay – We will be free
The Wakes, “These Hands.”<br />
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<br />Campsie Scottish Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340961079697673940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-29174772881802907882015-01-28T11:42:00.000+00:002015-01-28T11:44:52.725+00:00SSP Public Meeting: 'The Greek Election – an eyewitness report’SSP Public Meeting on 'The Greek Election - an eyewitness report' , will see Colin Fox reporting on his trip to Athens for the Greek General election and what lessons we in Scotland can take from our Greek comrades. With 'Syriza' in the lead and likely to form the first radical left-wing Government in Europe since WW2, Colin Fox will be giving a first hand account of the current situation in Greece and outlining the political implications for the socialist movement throughout Europe.<br />
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On the night that Syriza, the radical left party in Greece win at the polls, SSP activist Tommy Ball explains the implications this will have across Europe and Colin Fox reports from the celebrations on the ground in Athens!</div>
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Seventeen Christmases ago, when my now teenager was only one, my wife and I were on benefits. We lived in one of the poorest housing schemes in Ayrshire, in poverty, surrounded by poverty. We struggled weekly with food bills, nappies and the daily grind of transport, heating and feeding the meter. We, like all of the proud working class parents living around us, all hit by Thatcher’s decimation of industry and mining in the area, wanted the best for our wee boys and girls. Santa brought far less to him than to the families we now live amongst in Bearsden and Milngavie, but we turned the heating off for days, and ate bargain baked beans to save for a purple singing dinosaur. </div>
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<br /><br />If you want to know what inequality is like, live on benefits at Christmas.<br /><br />The media on Friday and Saturday gleefully participated in the biggest poor baiting marketing ploy in this country for a while. Black Friday, the day that, supposedly, the country goes mad for bargains, was thrust upon us. Black Friday is an American invention in which large retailers select “target” stores, advertise huge price reductions on limited items, place them in their narrow doorways and open the doors when the cameras have been safely set up behind the pile of price slashed gift ideas. <br /><br />The publicity generated not only helps remind ‘consumers’ to hurry up and come spend, but also helps advertise NEXT year’s PR drive to have shoppers spend their paltry food bank enhanced pay. The people of Dundee and Pollok, two far from affluent areas, were shown on our TV’s and in our newspapers, fighting and scrambling for TV’s, X-boxes, Tablets and the like. Fights broke out, while miserably paid (and perhaps Workfare enslaved) young workers got in the way of fists and angry words. I saw desperation in the faces of those videoed cynically for the good of the Tesco and Wal-Mart/ASDA Board of directors. Black Friday was a PR success, and next year’s event is guaranteed to be even bigger, more successful, violent and desperate for the poor trying to heat their homes, feed their families and give them a dignified, ‘happy,’ less indebted Christmas.</div>
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<br /><br />Have no doubt – those fights were started by the marketing departments of those retailers. The police called to ensure it didn’t get too out of hand were part of the publicity. Perhaps Police Scotland can investigate why people were herded, in view of the media, into bottlenecks with small stacks of radically price reduced gift ideas in their paths and why this didn’t seem to be the case in Bearsden or Morningside (both places I was on Friday)? Perhaps the Police can ensure that those who instigated the riot are pulled in and questioned and perhaps arrested? I seem to remember a huge operation that jailed people who, on Facebook, had “incited” the English riots” in 2011 from the comfort of their armchairs? Perhaps those who incited these riots from the comfort of their boardrooms should be arrested also?<br /><br />Seventeen years ago, if a large, singing Barney electronic dinosaur had been reduced by 75%, which would have meant we didn’t have to do without heating for days on end, was placed in front of me, in front of cameras and surrounded by police and fearful low paid shop assistants, I too may have made a grab for it. I too may have been part of the poor-baiting media storm. I too may have fell victim to another poor father punching his way to a dignified, ‘happy,’ less indebted Christmas. I too would have been a victim of the Thatcherite, Tory/Libdem coalition profit grabbing, greedy, violent success of the vicious, nasty PR exercise that was Black Friday.<br /><br />Neil Scott<br /><br /> East Dunbartonshire Scottish Socialist Party Organiser.</div>
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<i>This letter was published in today's "The National" newspaper, from Campsie Branch Organiser, Neil Scott. </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"The Scottish Socialist Party welcomes the setting up of "Frack Off" anti-fracking groups across East Dunbartonshire that will work together as part of the wider, national campaign. We are happy to have been invited by local activists to be part of the formation of the local Bearsden Milngavie Frack Off group as we believe this is an issue on which people from all parties, including our partners in the Yes campaign The Scottish Greens and the Scottish National Party, can work closely together on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Although the Westminster Tory/Liberal Democrat Coalition claims to be the greenest government in history, like all of their pledges and claims, this has to be heard by a cynical ear as funding and governmental help has benefitted the energy companies wanting to turn a quick profit, rather than those wanting to develop energy solutions that have little or no negative environmental impact on East Dunbartonshire, Scotland and indeed, the world. </span></div>
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Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959528685165205482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-31436861745212956312014-11-18T21:47:00.000+00:002014-11-18T21:48:06.380+00:00East Dunbartonshire Yes Political Parties come together for "Bairns not Bombs"<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Strathkelvin Scottish Socialist Party organiser, Willie Telfer, lifelong anti-nuclear campaigner Ron MacKay and Local Green Party organiser Ross Greer, last night urged the people of East Dunbartonshire to head to Faslane for the <a href="http://scraptrident.org/">Scrap Trident "Bairns not Bombs" demo</a> on November 30th </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">to add their voices to the calls for nuclear weapons to be removed from Scotland. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Activist Willie Telfer said, "The SSP was founded on the principles of fairness and equality and we have been fighting for the resources and money given over to the billionaire shareholders of these arms companies to be used for schools, hospitals and care of our most vulnerable citizens. It is a disgrace that while people will struggle to heat their homes and feed their families this winter, billions of pounds of our taxes will be given over to maintain and then replace these lethally dangerous and indiscriminate weapons. Let us know if you want a place on the bus to protest outside the home of Europe's biggest nuclear arsenal. Trident must go."</span><br />
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The pics show one of our biggest stalls, organised by us, and joined by Yes Bearsden/Milngavie and RIC Kirkintilloch. We asked Citizen Smart and other musicians along last Friday as well as the awe-inspiring symbol of Independence, the Green goddess, Spirit of Independence, which is no longer green!<br />
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I'll add photos of Saturday's stalls, which were all over the constituency when I have them.<br />
Thanks to David Thomas and Thomas Swann for these pics!<br />
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And of course, our first of a series of huge banners throughout the constituency and beyond - our banners will be seen soon on the Ochils and the Kirkpatrick Hills as well as again, on the Campsies. The Hills have Ayes - keep watching!<br />
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<br />Campsie Scottish Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340961079697673940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-84483406964779802082014-09-03T20:29:00.000+01:002014-12-01T19:11:38.847+00:00Opinion: Neil Scott on No Campaign negativityThe norys are trying to make any real dialogue on the ground difficult in order to ensure the billionaire, London based press is the only outlet for "fair discussion." Demonising loud, enthusiastic voices is designed to demonise the very word, "Yes." A problem with this is, the press and other media outlets pretend to be neutral when they quite patently are not, so they gleefully print ugly words about our street and social media discourse. Those of us who, from the outset of this campaign have been assaulted, insulted and bullied on the streets by Labour hacks and right wing thugs, know the truth of who have tried to bring this campaign down to their sewer level. Project Fear, their name for their campaign, is also Project Intimidation, Threat and Violence. <br />
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Peaceful protest against the proto-fascist Farage and the Tory Leader Cameron is being made to look as if, 1, these people have something important to say to a country that has through democratic means rejected their politics of hate and division and 2, we are stifling debate.<br />
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Peaceful, and sometimes noisy, protest has been a feature of Scottish civil politics since Dundee Jute workers became the source of the term "to heckle," many, many years ago. <br />
That said, we must ensure people hear our positive Yes message through the negative, nasty No camp noise. Yes gives a myriad of colourful, bright, healthy, wonderful, prosperous paths. No forces us on our knees, down the path towards the torture of continued and increasing austerity and poverty and robbery by the corporations and billionaires.<br />
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Any protest, if needed at all on the lead up to the historic day, against those who wish to impoverish our people with neo-liberal thievery and lies, must be turned into a joyous occasion with our alternatives to their austerity displayed imaginatively, positively, colourfully and in a way that ignores them, because they really have nothing to say to the majority of people in Scotland. <br />
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Let them lie to the media. Scottish people arny daft. Our truths should be displayed with pride.Campsie Scottish Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340961079697673940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-22746671672046939982014-08-19T22:46:00.001+01:002014-08-19T22:46:38.859+01:00A Lesson in Khmer<div style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px;">Alienation, depression and anxiety that comes from feeling like an outsider in society and feeling like more of a consumer and worker than human being can be overcome and we can move towards a society that is more humane in nature. My own feelings of hopelessness and frustration have dissolved as I spend time with people who care about others. If I were part of the ruling oligarchy that controls so much of the worlds resources, wealth and power, I would be making sure people keep buying the favourite line of the political right: that human nature is inherently selfish and we are all in it for our selves, and keeping people away from the little pockets of hope in the world where it is made clear through actions and not false prophecies that human beings can live in harmony as equals. Thanks to the people of Bakod village in Cambodia, most of whom are children, this dreamer has found enough hope to fuel his desire to see peace, justice and respect not only in Scotland but the world. Until that day comes I can only try to embody the spirit of Bakod village with my actions, beginning with a show of faith in my own community and voting Yes in September. </span></span></div>
Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959528685165205482noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-50526973385986783932014-07-18T20:41:00.000+01:002014-07-18T20:41:09.657+01:00Please help our Yes campaign!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last night, Yes activists, some from the SSP, some ex-Labour Party, some not from any political party at all, and some from other political parties, delivered 1000 Scottish Socialist Voices, specially produced for East Dunbartonshire. The local branch have had 6000 of this edition produced – to add to the 6000 previous issue already delivered and the 10,000 other leaflets already delivered advertising SSP Yes meetings and events. SSP members have helped distribute Yes produced materials in the area over the past two years – the SSP is an integral part of Yes Scotland.</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Scottish Socialists Voice produced for East Dunbartonshire have cost £600 so far. Add to this the cost of thousands of leaflets, hall hire, petrol and activists time, the total spend by one branch of the SSP is nearing £2000 over the past year.<br /><br />The SSP, or the Campsie branch of the SSP, is not funded by Euro-millions winners. All of those Voices, each giving positive reasons to vote Yes, like getting rid of murderous nuclear weapons, or getting rid of Governments we don't vote for and highlighting the Tories, Lib Dems and New Labour's complicity in the dreadful bedroom tax and throwing local families to the mercy of food parcels and food banks, were paid for by unemployed members, disabled members, retired members and mums, dads, grandads, students and low paid workers.<br /><br /><b>They don't ask for this money back- it was gladly given in order to spread the hope of Yes; to spread the hope of socialism.</b><br /><br />But we do ask you to <a href="https://t.co/SPiVkcci6j" target="_blank">help us</a> to print more leaflets; produce more pamphlets; <a href="https://t.co/SPiVkcci6j" target="_blank">hire more halls</a> for people to go listen to Jim Sillars, Sandra Webster, Campbell Martin, Colin Fox, Katie Bonnar, Richie Venton and the other great speakers who have been touring Scotland spreading "The Socialist Case for Independence..."<br /><br />The <a href="https://t.co/SPiVkcci6j" target="_blank">price of a bus ticket</a> will help us leaflet 50 houses in our YesSSP campaign across Scotland. One small community could receive hope from your fiver and our shoe leather… please give what little you can. Every pound offers answers and hope to those suffering the yoke of Tory/ Libdem and New Labour economic oppression.<br /><br />Please click <a href="https://t.co/SPiVkcci6j" target="_blank">HERE</a> to donate<br /><br />Thanks.</span></div>
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Campsie Scottish Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340961079697673940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-90536751443278046532014-07-18T16:50:00.002+01:002014-07-18T16:58:28.269+01:00Israel Must Stop!Joinus tomorrow in Glasgow to call on Israel to STOP THE KILLING.<br />
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<br />Campsie Scottish Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340961079697673940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-50306236306177240602014-07-18T09:37:00.001+01:002014-07-18T09:39:22.087+01:00Israel must stop.<div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /> This is an area slightly smaller than Motherwell, but with the entire population of the Central Belt of Scotland crammed into the small space, which has been subject to attacks by a professional army, equipped by Nato, for two weeks.<br /><br /> The children whom Israel has not managed to kill are traumatised by life, and the essential infrastructure of Gaza has been shattered.<br /><br /> Israel's actions are entirely out of keeping with the responsibilities of sovereign states. They are aimed at civilians, and they kill civilians. Reports from the Foreign Correspondent for the American TV station, NBC news, Ayman Mohyeldin (@AymanM) have plainly shown the Israeli forces targeting and attacking a group of football playing children. The children, who were shelled as they played, were between the ages of 9 – 11. Four young boys died shortly after the correspondent had been kicking the ball with them. Day after day, hour after hour, report after report, we see the medical services in Gaza, overcome by the targeting, injury and death meted out on ordinary children, women and men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br />The Israel Defence Forces are acting in a manner in which they would never perpetrate against Israeli citizens. <br /><br /> We have been here before. There is a word for what the behaviour of the IDF has done to demolish the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians. <br /><br /> It is the only word which the Afrikaans language has given to the world. It is a word we hoped would only ever be used in history classes.<br /><br /> That word is Apartheid.
<br /><br /> We oppose genocide. We call on the governments of Europe to join us in this opposition. We plead with the governments of our European Union to oppose Israel's genocide. We recognise and welcome the statement from the Scottish Government opening our hospitals to those injured in the Israeli attacks, but this needs to go further. Scotland needs to send hospital aircraft to the region. Scotland needs to send humanitarian aid and Scotland needs to ensure all TV services allow </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">a Disasters Emergency Committee humanitarian aid appeal.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We plead with the Scottish and UK Government to oppose Israel’s attacks and to use all the levers of commerce and diplomacy to bring this disproportional action to a halt. <br /><br /> Murder hurts its victims. Mass murder hurts humanity.<br /> Israel must stop.</span></div>
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Campsie Scottish Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340961079697673940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-979271905515375382014-07-15T00:37:00.001+01:002014-07-15T00:37:41.504+01:00The SSP condemn the Israeli attacks on the people of Gaza.<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">The Scottish Socialist Party deplores the
continued violence in the Middle East and the completely disproportionate
violence from the Israel Defense Forces, which amount to collective punishment
of the Palestinian</span> people.</div>
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been ordinary Palestinians who are in effect, imprisoned and ghettoized behind
the Israeli built wall. Shockingly,
disgustingly, sadly 30% of those killed have been children.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We call upon the Israeli government to rein
in their Defense Forces and to remember that the inhabitants of the Gaza strip
are human beings, entitled to be treated with dignity; and entitled to the
protection of the Israeli Defense Forces for as long as Israel takes it upon itself to blockade
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<span lang="EN-US">We call upon both Israel and Hamas to cease
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<span lang="EN-US">We further call on Israel to end its
economic and physical blockade of Gaza, and to replace the essential
infrastructure which has been destroyed by its actions - actions which were
perpetrated by their Defense Forces with no heed given to their proportionality
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<span lang="EN-US">The grievous loss of life of civilians in
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<span lang="EN-US">As long as the State of Israel behaves in
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to call on our members and supporters, and indeed all Scots, to boycott all
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the Genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza.
We need to build public pressure
on all Governments to take action against the Israeli Government to force them
to halt the slaughter of Palestinians Immediately. Israeli Apartheid is no different from that
in South Africa. Solidarity and respect
with the Palestinian People."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(Previous - Threats to SSP Councillor from Zionist website: <a href="http://eastdunbartonshiressp.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/cif-watch-threaten-scottish-councillor.ht" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></div>
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SSP condemn the Israeli attacks on Peace Flotilla <a href="http://eastdunbartonshiressp.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/ssp-condemn-unreservedly-murder-of-19.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> )</div>
Campsie Scottish Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340961079697673940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-42308232923884467132014-06-21T13:02:00.001+01:002014-06-21T13:10:15.309+01:00East Dunbartonshire and North Glasgow Mass Canvass and Public meeting @the_ssp_<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.299999237060547px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;">
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<span style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 17.98666763305664px;">We also need leafletters for the public meeting during the week. Contact local organizer, Willie Telfer 07963538234 (and contact Willie about local SSP meetings!) </span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 17.98666763305664px;">or West of Scotland Organiser, Richie Venton 07828278093 to let them know when you can help.</span></div>
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Campsie Scottish Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340961079697673940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5296368726978350564.post-34179921147996259352014-06-20T07:31:00.000+01:002014-06-20T07:31:16.152+01:00"Red Ed?" @labour4indy #indyref If any doubt remained that austerity is here to stay under which ever party or combination of parties rules the uk after the 2015 general election. Then that doubt evaporated as Ed Milliband laid out plans to abolish jobseekers<br />allowance for the under 22s. <br />
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With Tories readying themselves to strip housing benefits for the under 25s, what chance have the young people of Scotland got if they find themselves at the wrong end of the prevailing tight job market. It is now blatantly obvious what their only chance is and in the run up to September, no one needs to spell that out.<br />
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There is still a professed line within Scottish Labour that the salvation of the working class in Scotland will be a new New Labour government presided over by our great champion the magnificent and idealogically pure "Red Ed".<br />
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I now predict the defections to the Yes side by Labour Party members which started off a few months ago as a trickle and are now in full flow will become a flood on the back of this claxon like signal about where Labour UK want to position itself for the 2015 general election.<br />
I will be amazed if the Labour for Independence chair Alex Bell has time to come to speak at the Kirky Miners on the 25th, he may be too busy processing applications to join a growing organisation which may just help protect us from those who have lost their values in his own party.<br />
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Willie Telfer<br />SSP Strathkelvin OrganiserNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13959528685165205482noreply@blogger.com0