Lovemore Matombo & Wellington Chibebe - On trial 30 July in Harare Add your support at www.wearezctu.org Solidarity with Zimbabwe Trade Unions

By TOMMY SHERIDAN SOLIDARITY CO-CONVENOR As the Holyrood elections approach in May it is perhaps helpful to highlight some facts concerning Solidarity , Scotland ’s Socialist Movement. Four years ago Solidarity fought across Scotland on an anti-poverty, anti-nuclear weapons and pro-trade union and independence agenda. Our proposal to replace the unfair council tax with a progressive income

Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (STUSC) Manifesto Launch Tuesday 20th April At The Scottish Trade Union Congress 12.30pm The Balgay Room Number 10 Constitution Road Dundee Speakers; Bob Crow (RMT General Secretary and TUSC steering group member) Tommy Sheridan (Solidarity Co-Convenor and STUSC Candidate for Glasgow South West) Dave Nellist (Socialist Party Councillor and TUSC Steer...

Palestine Solidarity Trade Union Conference 18 April 11.00 – 4.00 (Plenary with speakers, workshops, report-backs) Quaker Meeting House School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT Trade unionists and trade unions brances are being asked to consider supporting and if possible brances to send delegates to a trade union conference on Palestine

EDITORIAL FROM DEMOCRATIC GREEN SOCIALIST Democratic Green Socialist is a bi-monthly online magazine for the pro-independence left, published by the Democratic Green Socialist group of Solidarity - Scotland’s Socialist Movement. These are undoubtedly times of crisis, but a time of crisis can also be a time of opportunity. Working class people in Scotland and across the

This is the third of three postings about Kamangar's case, which looks at solidarity in his case. In the first posting you will find Amnesty's appeal and a link to our online action. In the second posting you will find Farzad's account of his treatment in his own words. Please take action now . Amnesty and the global and national trade unions have co-operated closely in the defence ...

BREAKAWAY socialist party Solidarity has chosen a union steward as its candidate for next month's Forth ward council by-election.

TRADE UNION SOLIDARITY : Thursday 31 July, 7.30pm Word Power bookshop, West Nicolson Street Next week there is a special meeting in Edinburgh to discuss trade union solidarity with Palestine. Scottish PSC invites trade unionists especially to join us to discuss trade union solidarity and how we can take the campaign for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions)

Marking May Day, Terry Glavin has a guest post at Z Word– like everything he writes, it’s worth reading in full– lamenting the Canadian Labour Congress’s lack of support for strengthening ties between Palestinian and Israeli trade unions and for demonstrating solidarity with oppressed and imprisoned trade unionists in Iran. Just the other day, the International

The recent euro-elections are probably a good occasion to look at the potential and limitations of trade union intervention in electoral politics. Trade unions in Britain, tend to organise workers by trade, and include the full cross section of political beliefs in the workforce; what is more trade unions themselves occupy a political space that seeks