Will unionist woes open door to real change?
by Ken Ferguson Nick Clegg makes a desperate bid to rally about to be eclipsed Scottish Lib Dems and makes fantasy world claims about his party defeating the SNP. In the ...
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‘It’s the economy, stupid’
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson George Osborne’s Budget acclaimed UK economic growth of 2.5 per cent last year, record employment levels and low interest rates. ...
Workers ask: Whose side are the parties on?
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser You could be forgiven for forgetting that the working class make up the vast majority of the population, judging by how our ...
Is mainstream primary policy just buzzword bingo?
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson Glasgow City Council are the latest local authority to push forward the aims of “propensity to mainstream” for children ...
SSP 2015 – candidate microblogs
The Scottish Socialist Party is standing in four seats for the 7 May 2015 General Election. Here are our candidates’ latest updates: Paisley and Renfrewshire South – ...
After Netanyahu victory, what next?
by Bill Bonnar The general election in Israel last week saw the re-election of a reactionary, hawkish government and represents a blow to any kind of peace process in the ...
Murphy’s lips are moving…
by Ken Ferguson No need for a smart watch to count the ticking countdown to what looks increasingly like Labour’s date with doom on 7 May. Just count the increasingly ...
Pegida plague creeps beyond German base
Fiz Garvie reports In the last few days and weeks, the ‘Pegida’ phenomenon has been spreading from Germany where it first started in October 2014 to other European ...
Bakers’ union leads fight for £10/hr minimum wage
SSP national workplace organiser Richie Venton spoke to the Regional Officer of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union, Alan Milne Richie asked Alan about the ...
Will Westminster’s indy nightmare return after May?
by John McAllion Westminster politics has long been haunted by the spectre of Scottish independence. Since the SNP’s Winnie Ewing sensationally captured the previously rock ...
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