Another Scotland is necessary
by Sandra Webster • Time travel back to the Smith Commission. After the campaign for independence, Scotland was promised more devolved powers. When Maggie Chapman talked ...
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June 26 Spanish elections: left government in sight?
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Five months after the December 20 Spanish elections failed to produce a government, the country is again going to the polls in the most ...
Holyrood must axe offensive behaviour at football law
by Liam McLaughlin • With the Holyrood election now over, and the hurt of a bruising night for the left and progressive forces involved with the pro-independence campaign ...
RMT: ‘keep the guard on the train’
by a ScotRail driver • The RMT union is balloting its ScotRail conductor members over Abellio’s refusal to rule out the extension of Driver Only Operation (DOO) on ...
Scottish democracy needs a vibrant, diverse media
by Paul Holleran, Scottish Organiser National Union of Journalists • A major measure of any functioning democracy is the state of its media and anyone looking closely at ...
Only a left alternative can halt the populist right
by Ken Ferguson • The narrow defeat inflicted on far right Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer by Green pro-EU Alexander Van der Bellen represents both a close ...
Hillsborough, Orgreave, Shrewsbury, blacklisting… THE STATE IS ROTTEN
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • There is something rotten at the heart of capitalism. Not just a few bad apples, but a whole stinking barrel of ...
Scottish election confirms that independence is the key fault line
by Ken Ferguson • Forget all the media froth about the Tory revival. The SNP won the May 5th poll with a whisker short of a majority in a result which saw opinion harden ...
Sturgeon under pressure from right after ‘both votes SNP’ blunder
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • RISE was right. Nicola Sturgeon’s #BothVotesSNP strategy was inept. One million SNP list votes, which could have elected ...
Solidarity and internationalism of May Day never more vital
by Ken Ferguson • In world ravaged by war and seemingly chained by all powerful globalised capital, the spirit of international solidarity at the heart of May Day is more ...
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