Scottish trade unions’ Bhopal solidarity visit
by Eurig Scandrett, UCU Scotland and Scottish Friends of Bhopal Thirty years ago, the world’s worst corporate crime happened in Bhopal in central India. An insecticide ...
Socialist Cuba doing the heavy lifting in Ebola crisis
by Bill Bonnar While the world rallies to support the countries suffering the from the Ebola epidemic and Lord Bob Geldof and his tax dodging, self-publicising friends plug ...
The Scotland we are living in now was inconceivable three short years ago
by Alan Bissett The No vote in the referendum in September was truly devastating to those of us who voted Yes. We felt it as yet another blow to social justice—to ...
A people before profit Scotland is the spearhead of change
by Ken Ferguson At the heart of the broad vibrant Yes campaign, which culminated with a massive 45 per cent vote in September’s independence referendum, was the ...
No more business as usual politics post-referendum
by John McAllion, former Labour MP and MSP, now an SSP member As commentators variously try to make sense of Scotland’s post-referendum landscape, it is becoming ever ...
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 ...
Independence alliance or SNP dalliance
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The Radical Independence Campaign conference this weekend takes place within earshot of Nicola Sturgeon’s coronation ...
More care charities face the cuts cosh
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson Recently we saw the extravaganza that is Children in Need, where a plenitude of celebrities urge us to donate to a charity ...
The political awakening is here to stay
by Jonathon Shafi, Radical Independence Campaign Everyone remembers those exciting days and weeks on the lead up the referendum. For most of us this was the most exciting ...
Nothing can be the same for Scotland’s media
by Paul Holleran, Scottish Organiser, NUJ It has been said by many people in Scotland since the independence referendum that “things will never be the same again”. ...
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