Show zero-hours contracts the red card
by Calum Martin, Edinburgh South and Midlothian SSP The start of the New Year: a time of consideration of resolutions for the year ahead. Amidst the crisp weather of the New ...
Workplace
Tory class war on workers’ rights
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Anyone who doubts we are in the midst of a class war hasn’t been awake recently! The Tory party election manifesto for ...
£10 NOW! For a Scottish minimum wage to outlaw poverty pay
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Poverty scars the face of Scotland. Poverty pay is at the heart of it. And the only thing more ugly than the national ...
Tax office spends public money on union-busting
by a PCS representative The revelations on 13 November of a union-busting plot at the heart of HMRC should come as no surprise to all socialists and students of trade union ...
Defy all cuts: set No Cuts budgets, axe the Council Tax, tax the rich
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Councils across Scotland are poised to wield the knife to jobs and local services in a renewed round of municipal ...
Unions must break from Labour Tories: stop funding arsonists to torch your home!
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser On 1 July 2014 I wrote an article for the Voice—“Ructions after the Referendum”—which included the statement: ...
Why the SSP backs a ‘Citizen’s Income’
by Gerry McCartney and Wendy Macdonald At its annual conference in Edinburgh last month the SSP decided to campaign for the introduction of a Citizen’s Income (CI) and to ...
TTIP: a threat to democracy
by Bill Newman The innocent-sounding US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is currently being prepared behind closed doors by overpaid corporate lawyers ...
Demand a Scottish £10/hour minimum wage – resist Tory class war
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”, was the memorable satirical line in George ...
The struggle continues: not another wasted generation!
by Richie Venton, SSP workplace organiser Those who fought and voted for Scottish independence are entitled to feel gutted at the result. And angry at the lies and scare ...
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