π· Your SNP-run Council in Glasgow have just secured plans for a tourist tax which will generate Β£17mil a year to invest back into Glasgow.
What would you spend the money onπ€?
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π· Your SNP-run Council in Glasgow have just secured plans for a tourist tax which will generate Β£17mil a year to invest back into Glasgow.
What would you spend the money onπ€?
EXCLUSIVE: A left-wing branch of the SNP is set to launch a bid to 'tackle the seeming inertia' in the party's bureaucracy on the strategy to achieve Scottish independence β¬οΈ
06.07.2025 16:53 β π 42 π 12 π¬ 4 π 5SNP Socialists urge the wider SNP left to push back on Indy Strategy and left wing manifesto policies www.thenational.scot/news/2529290...
08.07.2025 04:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 05 years after George Floydβs murder, many of us are still trying to wrap our heads around why it happened and what those tragic and frightening words and days mean to us now
25.05.2025 13:28 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Our co convener @cllrgrahamc.bsky.social wrote this to mark the 5th anniversary of the racist police murder of George Floyd. www.facebook.com/share/1AbCvH...
25.05.2025 22:50 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Latest pod from @snp-socialists.bsky.social Co-Convenors @janis-w.bsky.social & @cllrgrahamc.bsky.social discuss; Trump, Ukraine, Mineral extractions in Africa, SNP constitutional conf, Scottish local govt budgets & G8 in 2005. Donβt think they missed anything!
leftungagged.org/2025/02/17/j...
Stop Putin Stop Trump - Support Ukraine! Edinburgh Wednesday March 5th 6pm
02.03.2025 13:27 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 2 π 2every word of this
20.01.2025 18:39 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0@snp-socialists.bsky.social Co-Convenors, Janis & Graham discuss Muskollini, Reform, Labour & Gaza. Get it in your ears.
26.01.2025 14:12 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Our co-conveners Janis & Graham resume their weekly podcast with @ungagged.bsky.social β please share!
25.01.2025 11:21 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0them 50p an hour, back in the late 90s).
We all got the high decibel government warnings about this situation being life threatening- including the management and owners of these businesses. They cared not a jot for the lives of their staff."
chains do all they can to stop unions from organising, and all they can do to pay staff really badly (I speak as someone who was sacked for trying to organise the GMB in a Stakis Hotel finding at the time, that Stakis were shipping in staff from across Europe and paying
24.01.2025 18:38 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0NWS @nwscotty.bsky.social:
"As an ex hospitality staff member of a hotel, I'm not surprised about the awful policies at show today across that sector, from Brewdog,through Cameron House to The Brooklyn CafΓ© (and many others). Hotels and large hotel
The meaning of President Musk, or should I say Fuhrer Musk's Nazi Salute is clear.
This is a White Supremacy Government and anyone who isn't White, Male and hetrosexual is open season for the Nazis.
As Donald Trump is sworn is as US president for the second time, here's how he was greeted to Scotland by the late Janey Godley β¬οΈ
20.01.2025 16:30 β π 112 π 41 π¬ 0 π 2Remember when the Lancet came up with a study that revealed a somewhat realistic death count in July? And then international hasbara went into action and pushed the number back to 35K, like we didn't see the 2000lb bombs drop on civilian areas daily? www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/...
18.01.2025 10:37 β π 251 π 128 π¬ 6 π 5This weekend, thousands of people of all faiths and none will march for peace.
We will not be cowed by cynical attempts to divide our multicultural movement for Palestine.
Join us to defend the right to demonstrate against apartheid and genocide.
Scottish nationalists monitored by MI5 amid fears over France links (Ha! Their real fear was and is Scottish independence)
www.thenational.scot/news/2485407...
Me: Hey AI, design me an AI which doesn't use all the available electricity and cooling water.
AI: You're no fun any more.
#r4today
Joe Biden, please pardon Leonard Peltier. You should've done it your first day in office. But you still have a week.
13.01.2025 22:14 β π 359 π 103 π¬ 3 π 2Hard to reconcile the nation that put a man on the moon is the same nation that put a moron in the White House.
12.01.2025 20:00 β π 37236 π 7025 π¬ 3550 π 787More than 60 universities and higher education institutions in Germany have announced their departure from X
In a joint statement, the universities condemned the platform for amplifying far-right populist content, calling it βunacceptableβ
www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ov...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Good ol' England
Another austerity Rachael Reeves?
Are we REALLY surprised?
Does Westminster care?
www.believeinscotland.org/westminster_...
Iβll take 1 Mexican firefighter over a thousand useless MAGA white men any day of the week.
How about you?
Great to see Kevin, IndyLive and the Pensioners for Indy here. Let's connect up all of the indygroups with socialist members!
11.01.2025 17:47 β π 2 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0@pensioners4indy.bsky.social hello! Great to see you on BSky.
11.01.2025 14:50 β π 40 π 8 π¬ 0 π 1'New Year's Resolve'. A cartoon about the challenges of 2025.
Before I post this week's cartoon, let's take a look at last week's, frame by frame. Apologies for including Elon. He's such a fanny.
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