The RSP has donated €230 to the Kurdish Solidarity Network fundraiser for Heyva Sor, which operates independently of the Turkish and Syrian states in the Kurdish areas worst affected by the recent earthquakes.
Author: Republican Socialist Platform
Scottish and Irish solidarity against the UK state
RSP members participated in the annual Bloody Sunday march in Derry this year.
Support the striking Royal Mail workers!
The RSP has donated £200 to the Communication Workers Union’s hardship fund for striking Royal Mail workers.
Announcing Heckle, our new online magazine
Heckle is the new online magazine of the Republican Socialist Platform.
STATEMENT: Police repression of republicanism must end
The Republican Socialist Platform unconditionally condemns Police Scotland’s harassment, detention and attempted criminalisation of peaceful protesters in Edinburgh and Glasgow over the past few days.
Urgent financial appeal to aid the Ukrainian mineworkers’ resistance
The Republican Socialist Platform is proud to have contributed £200 to the urgent financial appeal from trade unionists in Pavlograd, Ukraine. We are republishing below the appeal as first shared on the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign website last month. Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the mining communities of Donbas have faced relentless attack and…
STATEMENT: We have just 16 months to build a republican movement
The setting of a date – 19th October 2023 – for a new referendum on Scottish independence is an important and welcome development. This is a stronger commitment from a Scottish government to a new poll than at any point since September 2014, and comes as the democratic, economic and ecological crises of the UK…
Cairnryan blockaders pledge to return
Michael MacLeod, seafaring RMT member, reports on last week’s blockade at Cairnryan in solidarity with sacked P&O Ferries workers. Last Friday, the RMT, fellow trade unionists and comrades from across Scotland returned to Cairnryan to show P&O Ferries that their actions in sacking 800 workers in the St Patrick’s Day Massacre have not been forgotten.…
Solidarity with the uprising in Kazakhstan
The Republican Socialist Platform is a signatory to this international statement of solidarity with the uprising in Kazakhstan.
History Illustrated: The Braes, The League and The Party – The Crofters’ Revolts of the 1880s
In the latest installment of our History Illustrated series, we examine one of the lesser-known episodes in the Highland Clearances, when crofters and cotters stood together to physically resist the forces of the state as they attempted to enforce the will of the lairds.