SSY member James Nesbitt on Afghanistan.

The SSP is standing across Scotland in 10 constituencies, and alongside opposition to cuts in public services we’ll be making the case for the withdrawal of all British troops from Afghanistan. We’ve had new branches and dozens of new members on the back of our campaign for withdrawal, and were also standing SSY and SSP member [...]

Troops Out – Public Meeting

TUESDAY 30TH MARCH 7.30pm Govanhill Neighbourhood Centre 6 Daisy St Glasgow G42 8JL With the continued occupation of Afghanistan, we are witnessing mounting civilian casualties, alongside seemingly never-ending stories of young army recruits losing their lives, in a war which the public do not support. The human and financial costs of this war are huge. [...]

Germany's Left Party steal our ideas

Every single one of the German party The Left’s 76 members of the Bundestag (the German national parliament) have been expelled after a protest against the war in Afghanistan. The left wingers, who are members of a new party attempting to unite German socialists and that has had rapid success in elections, held up signs [...]

Scotland, Afghanistan and heroin

When people were protesting against the war in Iraq, “No war for oil!” was one of the main slogans around the world. Of course it’s easy to see that at a simple level the reason why Britain and America invaded Iraq was to do with oil. But things are rarely simple and straight forward when [...]

Grandmother of soldier killed in Afghanistan joins the SSP.

Joan Humphries receives her SSP membership card from SSP co-Convener Colin Fox The Grandmother of Kevin Elliot, a Soldier from the Black Watch killed in August has joined the SSP, due to the party’s staunch opposition to the war in Afghanistan. Joan says, “Having toyed with the idea of joining the SSP for some time, [...]

"I'm afraid to say NATO was very, very drunk at the time"

A Nato airstrike in Kunduz is believed to have killed approximately 70 civilians Nato faces fresh and unusual criticism today after it emerged that booze has been banned from its HQ in Afghanistan after its staff were too hungover to give an explanation as to how 70 civilians were killed in an airstrike Nato command [...]

Over 200 soldiers dead…

…so the pro-NATO Afghan Government can legalise the rape and starvation of women. “It (the law) allows a man to withhold food from his wife if she refuses his sexual demands; a woman must get her husband’s permission to work; and fathers and grandfathers are given exclusive custody of children.” Stop the lies, they’re not [...]

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