Why Scotland must vote Yes – the case for women
by Pam Currie “Oh, I don’t know what to think…” … “What if…” … “We’ll never manage it…” Sound familiar? It does to me. In recent months ...
Oppose the nuclear waste sea move plan
by John Finnie MSP In 2006 George Monbiot wrote a fascinating article on Dounreay, the Nuclear Power Plant near Thurso in Caithness. He states, “In 1954 the nuclear ...
21st century Britain is glaringly unjust and getting worse
by Jonathon Shafi The UK is now so far down the path of privatisation and austerity, that deviating from it will take a movement on the scale of the Chartists to turn back ...
It’s people’s power versus London elites in indy battle
by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Despite the two year long negative scare campaign run by the unionists in Better Together, as we pass midsummer and close on ...
Scottish Labour is now a shadow of its former self
by John McAllion, Scottish Socialist Party, former Labour MP and MSP The burden of delivering a No majority against independence was always going to fall on the shoulders of ...
Mind the midges, mind your language, mind your feet
by John Finnie, Independent MSP for the Highlands and Islands Regardless of location, whether our densely populated urban areas or the ultimate ‘low density’ housing of ...
Economic and social realities at heart of referendum debate
by Colin Fox, Scottish Socialist Party co-spokesperon No other country in the world is so exercised by such an imminent and far-reaching political decision as Scotland today. ...
‘Cybernats’: the ongoing media furore
by Lynda Williamson, Newsnet Scotland There is a radiator salesman from Hadleigh in Suffolk named Phil Neville. Mr Neville recently received a torrent of abuse on social ...
Ructions after the referendum: workers, Labour and Scottish independence
by Richie Venton, Scottish Socialist Party national workplace organiser The Scottish referendum has added substantially to the stresses and strains between Labour and the ...
Scottish Gypsy Travellers face continued discrimination
by Roseanna McPhee and Colin Turbett Scotland’s longest standing ethnic minority, the Scottish Gypsy Traveller community, face continued discrimination despite the ...
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