Tricia McLeish and Tommy Sheridan will address Solidarity public meetings in Glasgow East at the following locations prior to the end of the Election Campaign.

Tuesday 22nd July 7.30pm - Shettleston Juniors Football Club, Old Shettleston Rd

Wednesday 23rd July 7.30pm - The Bridge, Westerhouse Rd, Easterhouse

Tricia will also be attending a PCS hustings at 6.30pm on Wed 16th at 6.30pm in the Fullerton Park Hotel

and will appear on Newsnight at 10.30pm on Thurs 17th July

Tricia can be seen on BBC Online interviewed on Mon 14th July and is to be interviewed for GMTV

Solidarity has been actively campaigning in the constituency each day with 5 separate stalls on Saturday 12th. Anyone wishing to get involved please contact Phil Stott or Gordon Morgan 0800 043 1917

Coalfields Solidarity, the industrial branch of Scotland's largest socialist party formed by workers in Scotland's open-cast coal industry, have condemned the decision of New Labour leader Gordon Brown to grant a state funeral to Margaret Thatcher.  In a statement, branch organiser Jim Monaghan:
 
"There will be a plenty of celebration in Cumnock and other former mining communities when Thatcher goes, but we wont be celebrating her achievements, we will be celebrating her end.  She replaced coal with heroin and jobs with despair in this town and many others like it across the country.  Gordon Brown should be ashamed that he choses to recognise Thacher's devastation as something to be rewarded, shame on him."
 
Tommy Sheridan, Solidarity's co-convenor also attacked the idea.  In a radio interview he said:
 
"This is an insult to the millions of pensioners who were robbed when she ended the link to wage rises and prices, Thatcher shouldnt be given a state funeral, she should be burned at the stake, a private cremation would do."
 
for the full satement from Coalfields Solidarity click 'read more' below
 

After almost 5 months suspension from her job as a British Airways stewardess Gail Sheridan has today been reinstated and cleared of any theft and misconduct charges.
 
Gail had an unblemished record over her 23 year career with BA before being suspended on basic pay pending an investigation into theft and misconduct charges arising from a Lothian and Borders police decision to charge her with theft after removing a number of alcoholic minatures during an 8 hour raid and search of the Sheridan home on the 16th December last year. Gail Sheridan was subsequently charged with theft and perjury on Feb. 19th this year and suspended from her job on Feb. 22nd. The theft charge was dropped when Gail and husband Tommy appeared at Edinburgh high court to be charged with perjury on 27th March.
 
After a detailed and thorough investigation by BA over the last 5 months, with which Gail fully cooperated, the Company have now dismissed all charges against her and fully reinstated her in her senior purser role.
 
Gail Sheridan said today;
 
"I am obviously relieved to be reinstated to the job I have loved for the last 23 years. The relief is however tarnished with anger that I have had to endure the stress and shame of being accused of theft over that period. An accusation which was always malicious but without foundation from the start. Those who initially threw this muck at me should hold their heads in shame.

"I want to thank my family, friends, trade union representative, Tracy Jervis and solicitor, John Paul Mowberry, for being so supportive and helpful during this difficult time. I also want to thank the thousands of ordinary people and trade unionists who have expressed their solidarity with me throughout. Such solidarity has been uplifting and inspiring."
 
Gail attended a disciplinary hearing this morning in a Paisley hotel and was informed of her reinstatement after less than 10 minutes of the meeting starting.
 
Gail is a member of the cabin crew union BASSA which is part of UNITE. 
 

Glasgow Solidarity members have selected their candidate for the Glasgow East by-election on 24 July.  Tricia McLeish, of the party's Shettleston branch, was appointed unopposed with the unianimous support of the Glasgow region of Scotland's largest socialist party.
 
Tricia said:
"I am honoured to be selected as Solidarity's candidate.  Living in the area and working for the council, I see the results of New Labour's failed agenda first hand.  The SNP offer no answers for the people of the East end, just more of the same under a different flag.  The East End will not be saved by shopping centes or by a Donald Trump.  We need real jobs and real futures.
 
"Solidarity are AGAINST the renewal of trident, but FOR spending the billions on houses and pensioners instead.  We stand AGAINST the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and FOR the withdrawal of Brirish and all other foreign troops." 

Tricia McLeish & Tommy Sheridan

"Everyone likes to talk of the independence of the judiciary and prosecution but an independent defence able to speak without fear of recrimination by the state is an essential for freedom and justice."

Co-Comvenor of Solidarity, Tommy Sheridan said:

"This was an over-reaction by the trial judge and a waste of public money and time.  Aamer Anwar was charged for doing his job - defending his clients fearlessly.  Justice has been done today." 

For full details of the campaign visit www.sacc.org.uk

Former Labour MP Terry Fields died at his home in Liverpool on Saturday 28th June.  Solidarity wish to express our deepest sympathy to his family and comrades.  Co-Convenor Tommy Sheridan said:

"I am deeply saddened by this news.  Terry was a wonderful man who inspired many to get involved in the fight for a fairer society.  He will be missed by all of us."

From Scotland Against Criminalising Communities www.sacc.org.uk

"I never thought I would be in the House of Commons on the day Magna Carta was repealed."  - Tony Benn
 
"There will be widespread consternation among our supporters seeing a Labour Government prepared to use every tactic available in its determination to crush essential civil liberties...This is no way to run a Government. Securing votes by threats, bribes and personal pleading demeans the role of the Prime Minister." - John McDonnell MP (Labour)
 
"Rarely has a government hazarded so much of its credibility for so narrow a victory - and in such certainty that it will shortly crumble into pitiful defeat" - Simon Hoggart (The Guardian)
 
Gordon Brown has brought the Labour Party and the British Parliament into disrepute by using of bribery and threats to win a hairsbreadth majority for the extension to 42 days detention without charge for terrorist suspects - a measure that almost nobody sincerely supports.