Nuclear ban: the SSP campaigns against WMDs in Scotland, and supports an independent Scotland without nuclear weapons and without NATO. […]
Nuclear ban treaty renews calls for WMD-free Scotland
Trident
From Trident to Turbines
by Calum Martin Weapons Of Mass Destruction. They don’t protect us from acts of terror. They don’t shield us from infrastructural cyberattacks. Hideously expensive, morally indefensible and functionally purposeless, they are some of the most dangerous and expensive relics in the world. So what point is there in keeping them? “Well,” squawks many a rich […]
Osborne’s Folly: Trident must be scrapped
Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled £500m for the future of the Faslane nuclear submarine base. Mr Osborne said the cash will fund the construction of related projects as it hosts the country’s submarine fleet. The Scottish Socialist Party’s national co-spokesperson and peace activist Sandra Webster comments: “Today has demonstrated how out of touch the Westminster […]
No More Hiroshimas
by Sandra Webster Yesterday, we commemorated the use of the first nuclear weapon in the world. 70 years later we still live under the shadow of the prospect of a war which would mean the end of all mankind. I am a cold war kid, I can remember lying in my bed hearing the drone […]
Scrap Trident weekend of action
by Sandra Webster Consensus and evidence of some left unity were present in Glasgow last weekend. Thousands marched in Saturday in George Square in the largest demonstration against nuclear weapons Scotland has seen for decades. This was backed up by a mass blockade on Monday which hundreds attended. This saw 47 people arrested and the […]