VOICE EXTRA: Corporate thuggery at British Airways
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · British Airways bosses have given us a toxic taste of the jobs slaughter and wage-slashing that millions of workers face ...
Capitalism
US chlorinated chicken bad for your health and stained by racism
by Roisin McLaren, SSP national co-spokesperson · We’ve heard a lot about the dangers of chlorinated chicken. Chickens in America are kept in such cramped conditions that ...
How useful the internet is depends on who’s using it
by Scott Macdonald · Covid-19 (C-19) has exposed the contradictions inherent in 21st century capitalism. While Richard Branson brings his billionaire begging bowl to the ...
With a world in flames, working class action for change essential
by Ken Ferguson · Both literally and metaphorically, the world is in flames, with fires largely lit by human greed, inspired by the market madness of neoliberalism. Real ...
Ursula K. Le Guin: ‘Source to nourish the uncolonised mind’
by Scott Macdonald • I generally do not weep when my heroes die. I do for Ursula K. Le Guin, speculative fiction writer, poet, scholar and genius, gone at the age of 88. ...
2016 presents Scotland’s left with unprecedented challenges
by John McAllion In July of 1988, the Queen addressed both Houses of Parliament on the occasion of the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution. Her address, awash with ...
Where is the SNP going on fracking?
by Allan Grogan Thomas Carlyle once wrote that “the greatest of faults… is to be conscious of none”. I am often reminded of this as I see the Scottish ...
Refugee crisis is foretaste of things to come from climate change
by Jack Ferguson In 2015, Europe has begun to get a small foretaste of the human costs of climate change. There are many complex reasons why there are thousands of desperate ...
Energy of mass independence campaign creates need for RISE
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: ...
Disunited kingdom
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The Tories’ General Election victory has revealed a starkly divided ‘Kingdom’. The distribution of the 650 seats in the House ...
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