Scotland’s socialist party enjoys year like no other
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson 2014 was a year the Scottish Socialist Party will not forget. It went so fast it is easy to forget all that happened in twelve ...
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The Scotland that helped return Blair’s landslide no longer exists
by John McAllion, ex-Labour MP and MSP, now with the Scottish Socialist Party At the time of writing, the most recent opinion poll in Scotland gave the SNP a 15 point lead ...
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 ...
Socialists call for ‘Independence Alliance’ in General Election
Scottish Socialist Party media release Scottish Socialist Party national spokesman Colin Fox has written to SNP leader elect Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Green Party leader ...
Why the SSP backs a ‘Citizen’s Income’
by Gerry McCartney and Wendy Macdonald At its annual conference in Edinburgh last month the SSP decided to campaign for the introduction of a Citizen’s Income (CI) and to ...
Labour for Independence leader joins Scottish Socialist Party
‘Put socialism back at the forefront of political life’ by Allan Grogan For the last two and a half years I have campaigned within Labour for Independence to win a Yes ...
Demand a Scottish £10/hour minimum wage – resist Tory class war
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”, was the memorable satirical line in George ...
Politics moves right in England – Labour faces Scottish meltdown
by John McAllion, ex-Labour MP and MSP, now an SSP member Unionist politicians have tried to spin the result of the referendum as an irrevocable defeat for the very idea of ...
Let’s target the real scroungers
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson In the lead up to the referendum vote, the future of the welfare state was one of the issues referred to by the Scottish ...
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