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SNP Socialists are left-wing Scottish National Party members' critical activist forum for socialist ideas informing the wider Party membership on our shared vision of a future Independent Republic of Scotland https://snpsocialists.wordpress.com/membership

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πŸ’· 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 onπŸ€”?

19.06.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 ⬇️

06.07.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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SNP left wing push back against internal 'inertia' over indy strategy A left-wing branch of the SNP is set to launch a bid to 'tackle the seeming inertia' in the party's bureaucracyΒ on the strategy to achieve Scottish…

SNP 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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The world witnessed George Floyd's murder. 5 years later, what has changed? Five years after George Floyd's death sparked worldwide protests over police brutality and racism, NPR's Michel Martin reflects on Morning Edition's return to Minneapolis to examine what has changed.

5 years after George Floyd’s 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€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Redirecting...

Our 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€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Janis & Graham - Ungagged! - Can't say "Nothing happened"! - Ungagged! The SNP Socialists Co-Convenors, Janis Wilson and Graham Campbell didn't miss any important topic this week!

Latest 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. Don’t think they missed anything!

leftungagged.org/2025/02/17/j...

17.02.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Stop Putin Stop Trump - Support Ukraine! Edinburgh Wednesday March 5th 6pm

02.03.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

every word of this

20.01.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our co-conveners Janis & Graham resume their weekly podcast with @ungagged.bsky.social β€” please share!

25.01.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

them 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."

24.01.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

NWS @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

24.01.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

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.

21.01.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 463    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 4
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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 ⬇️

20.01.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Gaza toll could exceed 186,000, Lancet study says The study finds factors like diseases will lead to many more indirect deaths in the long run even if the war stops now.

Remember 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€” πŸ‘ 251    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
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This 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.

15.01.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1355    πŸ” 427    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 10
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Scottish nationalists monitored by MI5 amid fears of help from France, files show BRITISH security services were monitoring the Scottish nationalist movement – and feared the French government could be supporting it, newly…

Scottish nationalists monitored by MI5 amid fears over France links (Ha! Their real fear was and is Scottish independence)

www.thenational.scot/news/2485407...

14.01.2025 05:34 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Karen Adam: Scotland can be an example to the world by rejecting the far right The way things are going in the world right now, it feels like we’re on a road that takes us further from where we want to be.

www.thenational.scot/politics/248...

14.01.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

13.01.2025 07:12 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

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€” πŸ‘ 359    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Hard 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€” πŸ‘ 37236    πŸ” 7025    πŸ’¬ 3550    πŸ“Œ 787
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Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu AjansΔ±

More 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 β€œunacceptable”

www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ov...

12.01.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3627    πŸ” 813    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 54
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One in six UK workers skipping meals to make ends meet, says TUC Trade unions body finds 17% have skipped meal in past three months, and as many as 10% do so most days

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Good ol' England

Another austerity Rachael Reeves?

12.01.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Westminster Effect means Scots experience more fuel poverty than any EU nation.

Are we REALLY surprised?
Does Westminster care?
www.believeinscotland.org/westminster_...

11.01.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ll take 1 Mexican firefighter over a thousand useless MAGA white men any day of the week.

How about you?

10.01.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 9795    πŸ” 1796    πŸ’¬ 392    πŸ“Œ 96

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€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@pensioners4indy.bsky.social hello! Great to see you on BSky.

11.01.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
'New Year's Resolve'. A cartoon about the challenges of 2025.

'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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11.01.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is β€œscrewing with” American industry.

Follow our rules, or don’t operate in our countries, Zuckerberg.

11.01.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1100    πŸ” 243    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 14

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