Solidarity Co-Convenor Tommy Sheridan joined dozens of angry parents, children and members of the community in a protest over council plans to close their school.The march was between St Agnes in Cadder and St Blanes, the school that children would have to move to if the closure goes ahead. Parents wanted to highlight the increased distances children would have to walk.
One of the campaigners, Sean Neilson, a former pupil said: "The march went really well. Having Tommy's presence really helped to raise awareness of the issue. Cadder is a small community but we are determined to make a point.”
“Stick together, stay united and keep fighting!” that was the message from Solidarity Co-Convenor Tommy Sheridan at Saturday’s demonstration against threatened school closures in Glasgow.
A huge turnout of over 1,000 adults and children brought Glasgow city centre to a standstill over lunch time with one of the most colourful and vibrant demonstrations the city has ever seen.
The message from the demonstration was clear…the parents,teachers, kids and communities from all of the 25 threatened schools and nurseries will fight the New Labour controlled council's closure decision to the bitter end. The battle has only just begun…
For more photos from the demo and to find out more about the schools campaign click 'read more' below.
George Galloway MP, Yvonne Ridley and hundreds of British volunteers are driving an aid convoy of over 100 donated vehicles packed with practical aid to Gaza leaving from outside the Houses of Parliament, London on Saturday the 14th February. This remarkable convoy will be over a mile long and carry a million pounds of aid raised in just four weeks.
Volunteers will drive the donated vehicles from all over Britain to Westminster on Valentine’s Day to form the convoy which will then drive almost 5,000 miles together through France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt where they will cross the border at Rafah into Gaza on the 2nd March.
Edinburgh latest University occupied in Israel protest
The Edinburgh occupation
They said that there was no such thing as student radicalism anymore, however occupations at 24 of Britain’s universities (4 here in Scotland) have put paid to that particular myth. The Scotsman on Thursday 12th February reports that the wave of protests and University occupations against Israel’s targeting of Gaza are “the most culturally significant in over a decade.”
Glasgow University students have entered into occupation.
”We are currently occupying the top floor of the Computer Science building in solidarity with the Gazan people, and in protest to the war crimes committed by the state of Israel against the Palestinian people, the University's complicity in this via links to the arms trade, and the BBC's refusal to show the DEC appeal.”
Following the overnight continuation of our occupation and a hugely succesful solidarity rally on the steps of the McCance, University of Strathclyde Principal Andrew Hamnett has conceded the following:
£100million siphoned from council schools in PFI subterfuge!
SOLIDARITY - Scotland’s Socialist Movement, claims to have uncovered a long-running ‘subterfuge’ by which central government funds - publicly destined for council schools - are routed instead via local councils to help pay PFI/PPP charges.
The Scottish Executive/Government once had a fund called the Schools Fund, a ring-fenced capital grant to local authorities “for the purpose of making improvements to the school estate.” In the financial year 2007/08 this amounted to £146.05million. [source d]
A group of 50 Strathclyde University Students have occupied the McCance Building in protest at their Universities links to arms companies and the Israeli water company Eden Springs.
The students have presented the University with a series of demands which include removing Eden Springs from on campus, scholarships to be granted to Palestinians in Gaza and that the University condemns the recent attacks on Gaza.
Solidarity Scotland’s Socialist Movement offers our support to those striking workers in construction and the oil refineries across the country who have taken a stand to defend the right to work, the principle of trade union rights and to prevent the undermining of collective bargaining.
We support those demands made to protect jobs, wages and conditions. We especially support those demands that recognise that the focus of the workers anger is not that of foreign nationals but rather anti-trade union employers who seek to undermine the hard fought for gains by trade unions over the decades in those industries.
To the employers this is not a question of the nationality of the workforce employed but of the profit they can be wrung out of hiring cheaper, preferably non-unionised labour. It is also about undermining organised labour wherever it appears.
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Solidarity Co-Convenor Tommy Sheridan joined dozens of angry parents, children and members of the community in a protest over council plans to close their school.The march was between St Agnes in Cadder and St Blanes, the school that children would have to move to if the closure goes ahead. Parents wanted to highlight the increased distances children would have to walk.
A LIFELINE FROM BRITAIN TO GAZA
Glasgow University students have entered into occupation. 
Following the overnight continuation of our occupation and a hugely succesful solidarity rally on the steps of the McCance, University of Strathclyde Principal Andrew Hamnett has conceded the following:
