by Phil Katz | Dec 21, 2022 | Scotland
The CP response to the Labour Party’s commission on the Britain’s Future The Communist Party defends the right of the Scottish people to self determination and to hold a referendum on their constitutional future. We reject anti-democratic manoeuvrings by the Tories or...
by Phil Katz | Oct 4, 2022 | Scotland
Scottish politics is not irreversibly dominated by a Conservative-voting English electorate.Voting SNP in Scotland is no route to a Socialist Scotland. The Communist Party conducts its campaigning politics both on the electoral front and in workplaces, communities,...
by Phil Katz | Apr 23, 2022 | Housing - We want to build and live, Scotland
A construction worker, talking to Leith Walk Ward election candidate (May 2022) Richard Shillcock, compared greenfield new-builds springing up outside Edinburgh and new city-centre luxury apartments. “The irony is, they’re made of the same stuff—concrete,...
by Phil Katz | Apr 18, 2022 | Election 2022, Scotland
“The number of needles I’ve picked up out of the garden…” – an increasingly common sentiment in Leith, demonstrating just how severe and neglected the situation is. With Scotland having one of the highest rates of drug related death in Europe, the societal...
by Phil Katz | Feb 2, 2022 | News & Views, Scotland, Uncategorized
Sign this petition https://tinyurl.com/SafeConsumptionCampaign We, the Edinburgh Young Communist League, have started our Save Lives, Save Money, Safe Consumption Campaign, which aims to spread awareness for alternative, healthcare-based approaches to Scotland’s Drug...
by Phil Katz | Feb 2, 2022 | News & Views, Scotland, Uncategorized
There is a widespread feeling of powerlessness and disillusionment amongst many working class people in Scotland today.Anger as well.We have a Tory Government in Westminster with a massive majority, albeit it’s a party riven with division, and the 79 seat majority...
