AS part of the commitment to lifelong learning and engaging with the wonderful world of the Internet, the comrades in Renfrewshire have started a blog.
It is very easy to set up on www.blogger.com requiring an email address and a user name.
Word of warning - if you don't want you identity to be known use an alias.
1. Jim Halfpenny (Renfrewshire) 2. Danny Williamson (Renfrewshire) 3. Tricia McCafferty (Inverclyde) 4. Denise McLaughlan(Inverclyde) 5. Sean Hurl (Renfrewshire) 6. Harry Pfaff (Renfrewshire))
7. Gilmour Macdonald (Renfrewshire
The list is headed by Jim Halfpenny, a member of the Renfrewshire branch of Solidarity-Scotlands Socialsit Movement, a socialist of some 20 plus years. He works in Vale of Leven, West Dunbartonshire as a school teacher teaching Modern Studies and is a member of the Educational Institute of Scotland(EIS). He is a member of the Committee for a Workers International platform and their Scottish organisation International Socialists.
We have chosen candidates to reflect the region, the gender, the age, the commitment is as important as the most high profile candidates. I have offered my services to the List as Election Agent but will seek nomination at next regional Meeting
Lets get our message out as far as we can, comrades - there are people out there counting on us to speak for them in that den in Edinburgh.
Keep Our Parks Public
This page will show news, events, announcements and information from the West of Scotland.
Renfrewshire Labour score own goal over St. Mirren Academy.
With a major fanfare the Labour administration announced recently that a new academy for St Mirren Football Club would be established on the Penilee Pavilion and Playing Grounds. The £3million project was hailed by local councillors and Wendy Alexander MSP as a spectacular project that would bring professional coaching to the children of Renfrewshire.
However, as if often the case with New Labour, the devil is in the detail. The urgently required renovation of the Pavilion is dependent on funding bids to The Lottery Heritage Fund, the building is a listed 1930's building, and sportscotland. St. Mirren's contribution to this project is £120,000 plus a fixed rent of £10,000 per year for 10 years. So from the club's point of view they obtain an excellent facility for a nominal amount.
For the local community, who were told that this facility, which has space for several sports pitches, was for their and the local schools use, this is an almighty slap in the face.
A local public meeting with over 200 people in Ralston Primary School was up in arms with the council leaving them with one all-weather pitch and St Mirren in charge of 80% of the grounds.
We in Solidarity see this as a fire sale of Council grounds as Labour seeks to privatise all the parks and gardens in the district.
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