Alex Salmond – Scottish Socialist Voice

All that’s solid melts in air as crisis explodes across political spectrum

September 7, 2018

by Ken Ferguson • At Westminster and Holyrood, ‘crisis’ is the political word of the moment. In Edinburgh, the snowballing crisis sparked by the sex allegations against ...

The shine comes off both Nicola and Corbyn-mania

September 7, 2018

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • Jeremy Corbyn was in Scotland last week. He told listeners to Radio Four’s World at One that, “Scottish Socialist Party ...

Both Corbynmania and Nicolamania in retreat

October 2, 2015

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson “Amid all the talk about the if, when, how and why of a second referendum, a technicality is being overlooked,” Sunday Herald ...

Holyrood 2016 needs mandate for second indyref

August 31, 2015

by Jim Sillars To know why the Scottish Parliament, after the 2016 election, must command a majority for a second independence mandate, look not only at the present but at ...

Energy of mass independence campaign creates need for RISE

August 31, 2015

by Jonathon Shafi We live in a historical moment marked by deep and profound ideological and social flux. If you are unconvinced by this, just think back ten years from now: ...

No more business as usual politics post-referendum

November 21, 2014

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 ...

Independence alliance or SNP dalliance

November 21, 2014

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The Radical Independence Campaign conference this weekend takes place within earshot of Nicola Sturgeon’s coronation ...

Parcel of rogues step up lie campaign as indyref looms

August 23, 2014

by Ken Ferguson After days of “Plan B” pounding, with a crescendo of unionist press criticism aiming to paint the broad-based, mass Yes campaign as simply being about ...

Never mind Salmond – what’s Labour’s ‘Plan B’ to halt ConDem cuts?

August 23, 2014

by John McAllion The timing of the independence referendum was always going to cause major problems for the No camp. For more than four years Scotland has suffered under a ...