The cruelty and greed of Westminster’s elite
by Ken Ferguson As hundreds perish in coffin ships in the Mediterranean, fleeing poverty and war, the elites running the EU call a meeting. These are the same elites who ...
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What awaits new SNP MPs – if the polls are correct?
former MP and MSP John McAllion sounds a warning… Labour’s left wing icon Nye Bevan was first elected as a MP in 1929 shortly before the Wall Street crash that led to ...
The more Cameron vilifies the SNP, the more Scots voters flock to the nationalists
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson This General Election appears to be a foregone conclusion. The polls all predict another hung Parliament. And the more David ...
A people’s manifesto
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson We should be proud of our manifesto which is a blueprint for our policies. Policies which present our vision of independence ...
For workers’ action – not pleas to politicians
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The woman serving me a coffee at the STUC Conference spoke volumes in a short chat. After asking where I was from, and me ...
Homeless caseworkers’ strike
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Seventy caseworkers in Glasgow city council’s Homeless Service have been staging an indefinite strike since 31 March. ...
How can alliances for socialism be built?
Antonio Gramsci – A Great and Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters, 1908-1926 edited and translated by Derek Boothman. Published by Lawrence & Wishart by Bill Bonnar ...
Vietnam’s ‘Great Spring Victory’ over the US – forty years on
Bill Bonnar gives a personal recollection Picture the scene. It is 1am in Moscow on May 1st 1975; 40 years ago. I was an 18 year old on a delegation walking home to my hotel. ...
Standing up for Scotland’s working class majority
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser It was Easter Monday. As I drove to work, the car radio announced the next programme, ‘Wake up to Money’. Aye, right, ...
Zombie Better Together staggers into election
by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice The British state and its political class have a centuries-old, well deserved reputation for lying and duplicity which ...
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