With Pride season coming to an end, Jo Harvie looks at some of the difficulties facing the LGBTQ+ equality movement this year, and how liberation has found ways to bloom.
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May Day: 150 years of resistance
Jo Harvie reflects on the significance of May Day for workers around the world, and calls for a display of solidarity this weekend across Scotland for our shared struggles.
Why Scotland Needs a Wealth Tax
As politicians paint a picture of doom and gloom in the public finances, the money required to restore our public services floats all around us. As Kevin McVey argues, SFI’s proposal for a 1% land and property tax could end austerity immediately and bring in millions for the Scottish Government.
Needles and Bins: Reform UK scapegoat life-saving drug facility
A newly-opened, safe drug consumption facility in Glasgow, backed by campaigners and Scots more generally, is the latest target of the political opportunists in Reform UK. Jo Harvie from SFI explains more.
Right turn in Germany… but there’s renewed hope from the Left
It’s not good news from Germany. The election results have followed the all-too-familiar pattern that we’re used to seeing, from Austria and the Netherlands to Sweden, where the mainstream parties have lost significant chunks of votes to hard right, anti-immigrant ones.
Solidarity and Cooperation in Catalunya
Between 13 and 15 December 2024, Socialists for Independence were invited by the Communists of Catalunya to participate in their third party congress. As part of that delegation, David Green reports on the deepening of links that took place over the weekend between Scotland and Catalunya.
Hair of the Dog
Donald Trump has begun his second presidential term. Son of racist real estate developer Fred Trump, and protégée of Roy Cohn (the man who sent the Rosenbergs to the electric chair), Donald Trump has swerved from one bankruptcy to another. Now, he’s been rewarded with the presidency.
New Year, New Possibilities
In our first post of 2025, Frances Curran discusses the challenges ahead for socialists over the coming year, and what socialists need to do to meet these.
Scotland, The Basque Country, Catalunya: A Forum for Cooperation
On 7-9 November 2024, Socialists for Independence attended the European Forum of Left, Green and Progressive Forces in Budapest Hungary. In attendance was Socialists for Independence, who co-organised and spoke on the panel ‘Stateless Nations’ alongside representatives from EUiN, Catalunya and Bildu, Basque Country. On 7-9 November, Socialists for Independence (SFI) attended the eighth European Forum ofContinueContinue reading “Scotland, The Basque Country, Catalunya: A Forum for Cooperation”