Environment

Mainstream middle ground politics ignores the urgent realities of people and planet

August 24, 2023 // 0 Comments

Editorial by Ken Ferguson On every hand — Tory, Starmer Labour and the increasingly divided SNP — mainstream politicians share one key characteristic, in that they claim to represent the moderate ...

Is hydrogen a new green wonder fuel?

January 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

SSP national co-spokesperson Roisin McLaren takes a look · The science and tech news are full of hopeful stories about hydrogen being the new climate friendly future fuel. With Shell proudly ...

UK backs arms race in space

December 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

by David Webb, chair of UK CND and convenor of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space · Boris Johnson’s recent announcement of a £16.5billion boost to the UK’s defence ...

Just Transition only can solve Mossmorran’s pollution and preserve jobs

November 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Councillor Mary Lockhart · On 5 October 2020, pilots of aircraft approaching Edinburgh Airport radioed Air Traffic Control to ask if it was safe to land. Their flight decks appeared to be full of ...

Surge of action essential if space warfare is to be avoided

July 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by David Webb, chair of UK CND · The US and the UK claim that they have caught Russia making an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test. Testing an ASAT weapon is not unusual—the US, Russia, China and ...

VOICE EXTRA: Covid-19, poverty and the climate emergency – the global crises that only socialists can solve

April 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 ...

Looking forward to COP26

January 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Róisín McLaren, SSP national co-spokesperson · This November, the biggest talking shop in the professional conference circuit comes to Glasgow, the UN Conference of Parties (COP26). COP is the ...

Support the Strike for Climate

September 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Róisín McLaren, SSP national co-spokesperson · The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) sent our support to the school strikers taking part in the Friday 20th Strike for Climate and subsequent ...

Workers and youth unite against capitalist polluters

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · As we live through the molten heat, thunder and lightning, floods and general climate chaos of recent weeks, new reports on the catastrophic ...

Voice Forum: Socialist Solutions to Climate Change

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

What progressive solutions to climate change can save the world and make the lives of working people better? Saturday 29th June, 11am-1pm, Grassmarket Centre, Edinburgh EH1 2QA · For tickets and ...