Fans of Glasgow鈥檚 Celtic football club showed their support for more than 1500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, with large banners and Palestinian flags at Celtic鈥檚 May 6 football (soccer) match against fellow Scottish side St Johnstone FC.
Members of Celtic鈥檚 鈥渦ltras鈥 fan group, the聽, along with聽, lifted a huge Palestinian flag, as well as large banners with the slogans 鈥淔reedom and Dignity鈥 and 鈥淗ungering for Justice鈥.
Self-described 鈥渆xtreme folk鈥 Scottish band Mouse Eat Mouse are one of the more obscure acts around, which makes it all the more satisfying to hear any new works.
Last year鈥檚 Toxic Tails聽is an album of beauty, anger and passion, traits often missing in today鈥檚 sanitised music industry.
I decided, therefore, to get in touch with CD Shade, the bald-headed, smooth-singing wordsmith who is the backbone of the act.
You know how it is when you go to the movies. Sometimes the sequel has a bigger impact than the original.
The announcement by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that she would bring forward proposals for a second referendum on Scottish independence may prove another example of this phenomenon.
There is a real feeling across Scotland, in Westminster and the media, that this time the Yes side could win and Scotland could break from the 鈥淯nited Kingdom鈥.
On an August evening in Glasgow last year, supporters of Celtic Football Club waved聽聽during a Champions League playoff match against Israeli team Hapoel Be鈥檈r Sheva, garnering global attention.
Scotland鈥檚 first minister Nicola Sturgeon says she plans to trigger another independence referendum. The Scottish National Party leader said the new poll should be in 2018 or 2019, reported on March 13.
鈥淩ight now, Scotland stands at a hugely important crossroads,鈥 Sturgeon said, referring to the 鈥淏rexit鈥 vote that will take all of Britain out of the European Union, despite a majority in Scotland voting to remain.
Chanting 鈥淚 love Celtics鈥, Palestinians have released a video praising the fans of Scottish football team Celtic FC for 鈥渙ne of the biggest solidarity actions in European football history鈥. It came as Celtic fans raised more than 拢100,000 by August 23 for Medical Aid Palestine 鈥 who deliver health and medical care to those 鈥渨orse affected by conflict, occupation and displacement鈥 鈥 as well as to the Lajee Center for equipment to start a youth league, TeleSUR English said that day.
During a August 17 European Champions League qualifying fixture in Glasgow against Israeli club, Hapoel Beer Sheva of Israel, fans of Glasgow's Celtic FC flew the Palestinian flag in solidarity with Palestine's struggle for freedom.
Celtic fans defy a UEFA ban and police threats to fly the Palestinian flag during against against an Israeli team.
During Glasgow-based football club Celtic FC's August 17 European Champions League qualifying fixture in Glasgow against Israeli club, Hapoel Beer Sheva of Israel, Celtic supporters defied an explicit UEFA ban to fly Palestinian flags in solidarity with Palestine's struggle for freedom.
Left-wing supporters of Scottish independence in the 2014 referendum campaign.
Is There A Scottish Road to Socialism?
Edited by Gregor Gall
Scottish Left Review Press
Third edition, 2016
拢5.99, 164 pages
This is the third edition in a series previously published in 2007 and 2013. A range of left-wing activists and commentators debate the question of whether Scottish independence would help or hinder the prospects for socialism in Scotland.
Hundreds of people crammed into the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow on August 29 for . The new coalition of the left will stand candidates in all eight regional seats in the 2016 Scottish elections.
Britain's May 7 elections revealed the deep divides emerging in British society and offered the promise of a constitutional crisis and social struggles to come. Most commentators had expected the result to be a hung parliament; polls had consistently shown the Conservative (Tory) and Labour parties to be neck and neck. In Scotland, the polls pointed to a wipe-out of the previously dominant Labour Party, with the Scottish National Party (SNP) poised to make sweeping gains on a platform of opposing austerity and Trident nuclear weapons.