ACTIVISTS across Scotland have demanded that the Gaza ceasefire be the first step to freedom and justice for the Palestinian people and an end to Israeli apartheid.
As their comrades marched in London on Saturday, activists marched through the streets of Glasgow and once again picketed the offices of Barclays Bank in Edinburgh, while in Aberdeen they took the message of solidarity into its commercial heart.
Campaigners rallied outside the city’s Bon Accord shopping centre, before marching and festooning its atrium with Palestine flags.
ARTHUR WEST surveys the achievements of the Scottish campaign against South African apartheid and how we can draw on them to fight a rising far right
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
The people of Palestine need our solidarity in actions not words – trade unionists must give them our full support in their darkest hour, writes DANIEL KEBEDE



