Record numbers swindled out of statutory minimum wage
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • One million people in Scotland live in poverty today according to Government figures and most of them are working. It used to ...
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The shine comes off both Nicola and Corbyn-mania
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 ...
What’s Brexit got to do with it?
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • There is a temptation to dismiss the Brexit debate as tedious and irrelevant to the real priorities facing working people in ...
In Momentumland, Jeremy Corbyn won the election
Book review: The Corbyn Effect, edited by Mark Perryman. Published by Lawrence & Wishart • by Colin Fox • Had you not known better before reading this book you would ...
‘Syriza: no longer a laboratory for hope but a cause for despair…’
by Colin Fox • Book review: The Syriza Wave – Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left by Helena Sheehan. Published by Monthly Review Press, £16.99 • In the decade ...
Sturgeon under pressure from right after ‘both votes SNP’ blunder
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • RISE was right. Nicola Sturgeon’s #BothVotesSNP strategy was inept. One million SNP list votes, which could have elected ...
School closures further expose cost of Labour moneylenders fiasco
by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate in the Lothians • As the Voice went to press, the Scottish Parliament elections were dominated by the closure of 17 of Edinburgh’s ...
Scotland’s left alliance on the rise
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The background political context to the RISE conference in Glasgow this weekend could hardly be more significant. Having declared ...
‘System change not climate change’
RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance to join climate march, 28 Nov, Edinburgh by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson Governments from all countries will assemble in Paris ...
Both Corbynmania and Nicolamania in retreat
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 ...
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