RISE MSPs vital to stop SNP moving right
by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate, Lothians • Politics and public opinion are full of contradictions. Take the survey published this week showing the Scottish ...
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Socialist MSPs make a profound difference
by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate for the Lothians • With the fifth Holyrood elections now upon us and RISE carrying the left’s hopes this time it is worth reminding ...
Sturgeon Brexit indyref claims challenged
by Colin Fox, RISE lead candidate for the Lothians “A second referendum on independence will almost certainly be demanded if the UK votes to leave the EU against ...
Solving the environmental crisis can not be left to the Greens
by Roz Paterson We are experiencing “a step change from one world to another…the changes are as big as those that happened at the end of the last ice age.” So says ...
2016 presents Scotland’s left with unprecedented challenges
by John McAllion In July of 1988, the Queen addressed both Houses of Parliament on the occasion of the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution. Her address, awash with ...
With Labour a political corpse, Scotland needs a new left
by Jim Sillars It was little noticed at the time amid successive Blair-led Labour victories, that the ejection of Clause 4 from its constitution, and the destruction of its ...
RISE conference signals start of left challenge for Holyrood 2016
by Jonathon Shafi Next May’s Holyrood election will be strikingly different from others before it coming as they will just twenty months after the biggest mass movement in ...
Scotland’s left alliance on the rise
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The background political context to the RISE conference in Glasgow this weekend could hardly be more significant. Having declared ...
Bombing won’t bring peace in Syria or security in Scotland
by Bill Bonnar Bombing Syria is not a strategy. It is what you do when you don’t have a strategy. The government want to use the bombings in Paris as an excuse to start a ...
Glare of war illuminates Westminster power play
Editorial by Ken Ferguson As the Voice went to press 66 Labour MPs voted with the Tories to send a handful of RAF bombers into action in Syria once again showing that the ...
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