A year ago the UK's largest trade union, public sector union UNISON, affiliated to USC. UNISON branches and activists in Scotland have been building links with unions in Kharkiv. In September they'll be visiting there, taking aid and funds. Please help! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/unisonscot...

Really saddened to hear of Sarah's passing in @heraldscotland.bsky.social yesterday. Her commitment & passion will be missed. Last year she contributed an amazing chapter to book Jane Pye & I edited on rural social work practice in UK. @basw-uk.bsky.social @scotssocialwork.bsky.social

Showing off Arran to Vlada - not long in Scotland from Kryvyi Rih - and remembering what's going on back in Ukraine

A brilliant book now on our essential reading for post graduate course Social Work and Community Development Approaches programme.

Join Strathclyde Uni for this free 1hr online event for World Social Work Day on Tues. "The Rise & Fall & Rise Again, of Community Social Work in the UK". Tickets still available. Looking forward to talking posts about SW! Date: 18 mar • 12:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rise-a...

The article that Dr. Danielle Mackle, Dr. Katheryn Pascoe, and myself, comparing community development teaching in QUB and Otago has just been published. It contains practical tools to strengthen community development teaching to social workers across the curriculum doi.org/10.1080/0261...

The Rise and Fall and Rise Again, of Community Social Work in the UK Date: Tue, 18 Mar • 12:00 Location: Learning and Teaching Building - Mary Dunn Wing, TL455 Tickets available again. All welcome to look at social work's future. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rise-a...

@glasgowgreens.bsky.social Glasgow Greens Cllrs Stand with Ukraine - be there on Monday February 24th 6pm St Enoch Square.

@glasgowsnp.bsky.social SNP Councillors Stand With Ukraine - be there on Monday 24th February 6pm St Enoch Square

⚡️'Massive demolition site' — Trump claims Ukraine in ruins while pressing Zelensky to hold elections. Trump alleged without evidence that Zelensky holds a "4% approval rating" in Ukraine and blamed his leadership for "allow(ing) the war to go on."

It was predictably appalling that Trump would throw Ukraine under the Russian bus in the same way he did with the people of Gaza. Ukraine too big to turn into a seaside resort (Putin already has Crimea) but will stay vulnerable. No wonder Putin has that smug grin. Solidarity! Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇵🇸

Coming soon! Social history with lots of stories of islanders at war from friends neighbours & museum archives - unity of purpose with hope, love, loss and death in the fight against fascism. 300 pages packed with images. A real people's history out in time for 80th anniversary of VE Day.

At least one woman died, and 20 households were ruined or damaged in today's Russian missile attack on Kharkiv.

Yesterday @ukrainesol.bsky.social supporters in Scotland held a lobby of the US Consulate in Edinburgh - asking the new administration not to waver in support of Ukraine. I was proud to have taken part along with TU, political party and support org reps - and Vlada from Dnipro

Happy New Year one n all.. Let's make it a better one 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇵🇸

Christmas 2024 in Udachne, near Pokrovsk, Donetsk 🇺🇦: once home to miners & families, now shattered by Russian bombardment. Rewarding colonial conquest fuels more aggression. Stand with Ukraine. ✊ #StandWithUkraine #StopRussianAggression

Last night friends in Kharkiv went to the underground theatre. The Timur group play was a fantasy romance about a fallen soldier from a volunteer unit from the city - & dedicated to them - showing images of all those KIA at the end. A comic scene set in London had a Scotsman! Life goes on...

Ukrainian kids deserve light, warmth, and a future. As Russia’s bombs target energy infrastructure, schools face freezing classrooms this winter. Help us provide power generators and keep education alive 👇 https://buff.ly/3VikS8j

Letter in @scotnational.bsky.social today explaining why we resigned from @scottishcnd.bsky.social . Hope to rejoin at some point when their rhetoric matches their non-nuclear peaceful values. Meanwhile we will support 🇺🇦 in it's struggle for existence and freedom

A typical school in Ukraine after russian war criminals bombed energy companies

Common Weal Repost My roundup of Common Weal's policy work this year.

🔴 Ukraine is ready to export food to Syria, says Agriculture Minister Koval, as Russia halts wheat shipments.

Hi @scottishcnd.bsky.social Just to let you know that after many yrs of membership I'm resigning due to your awful take on Ukraine & its struggle against the Russian invasion. Your 'peace' call alongside @stopthewaruk.bsky.social is nothing less than appeasing capitulation to Russian imperialism.

Speaking to an online London social work audience tomorrow about my "Practical Guide to Community Social Work Practice in the UK" book. Looking forward to it. I'm now quitting social work stuff but up for talking about the book for a bit anyway - culmination of a long journey & all that stuff..🤔

@jena.ng really is a lovely human being! This gift through the post - makes me feel very humble as it's hardly deserved - better than any prize. Thanks so much

As Russia's poodle falls from power in Syria, we did some great solidarity work in Scotland today at UNISON regional conference in Glasgow - motion passed supporting our Seapeak campaign to stop UK shipping of Putin's gas, and lots of interest in our stall @ukrainesol.bsky.social

Common Weal have long been writing papers about this de-democratisation in Scotland: it's writ large in the National Care Service proposals, use of the private & 3rd sectors to provide services, & the way in which the Corra Foundation used to administer the grant culture @thecommongreen.bsky.social

The difficult second book. Pre order available online What’s your A-Z of practice? #socialworkcatsandrocketscience

Great full house mtg on Arran this pm re Gaza. Coll McColl & Katy Clark speaking up for truth & justice for the Palestinian people and an end to Israeli aggression & barbarism. Discussion around what we can do to end UK government complicity.

🇬🇧🚫 The UK government has announced the largest package of sanctions against 30 ships of Russia's "shadow fleet". ❗️"Half of the ships sanctioned today transported more than $4.3 billion worth of oil and petroleum products, such as petrol, in the last year alone."

🚨 Greetings, comrades! 🚨 The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign is now on BlueSky! 🌻🇺🇦 Follow us for the latest updates on our campaigns, appeals, events, and demonstrations. Together, we stand in solidarity with Ukraine. 💙💛 #Ukraine #Solidarity #SolidarityWillWin

The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign has shared a KVPU report of their visit to deliver crucial equipment to mining rescue squads, bought with the support of British unions. The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign is also hosting an "eyewitness" event to discuss the visit - see both below 1/3

Participating in North Ayrshire conference looking at redesign of front door social work teams - fantastic hard worked proposals based on best of UK community based practice. Proud to have been a part of this work over past year.

Earlier this year, @colinturbett.bsky.social wrote for Heckle about his experience in Kharkiv, Ukraine – a city on the frontline of anti-imperialist struggle.

My 4 books offering a critical account of various aspects of USSR & our own history - all published by @penandswordbooks.bsky.social . DM me if you want to know more about them

Hugely recommended. The social work we were educated to do, in practice.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unison-sco... Free 1 hr lunchtime event this Weds. Join us for a critical & radically inspired discussion on Justice Services in social work. Great speakers! Please pass on.

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