by Mike Downham · There is now a real opportunity for elimination of Covid-19 in Scotland, but the Scottish government cannot be relied upon to ensure that it happens. A critical factor in achieving ...
by Ken Ferguson · Chancellor Sunak’s mini-budget uses smart spin about cheap meals for diners—at a time when tens of thousands rely on food banks—to dress up what is largely reheated soup ...
by Scott Macdonald · Covid-19 (C-19) has exposed the contradictions inherent in 21st century capitalism. While Richard Branson brings his billionaire begging bowl to the public purse for a handout, ...
Calls are growing in support of the SSP’S demand for a publicly owned and regulated National Care Service. The UK’s biggest union UNISON has called for a replacement to the existing “broken” ...
International Workers’ Memorial Day, 28 April · Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don’t die of mystery ailments, or in tragic “accidents”. They die ...
by Graeme Cullen and Hugh Cullen · If the COP26 conference takes place in Glasgow next year, world leaders must discuss the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on the struggle to reduce global ...
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Britain is in a dark place today, one it has never inhabited before. The Government’s ‘lockdown’ leaves an old world behind for ever. Nothing is ...
by Ken Ferguson · A spectre certainly is haunting the planet with the rapidly escalating Covid-19 crisis, with countries in lockdown, pillars of today’s supposedly free market utopia such as ...
by Chloe Maclean · Despite austerity being declared over by Boris Johnson, the action of the DWP does not seem to have changed. In fact, very little seems to have changed for ordinary people. On ...
As Scotland’s councils meet to set their budgets, the reality is that we face yet another round of cuts, job losses and Council Tax hikes. Scottish Socialists say that it doesn’t have to be that ...