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Scotland’s socialist party enjoys year like no other

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 hectic months. Like everyone ...

The Scotland that helped return Blair’s landslide no longer exists

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 over Labour in voting ...

The Scotland we are living in now was inconceivable three short years ago

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 the new, mass alliance of ...

A people before profit Scotland is the spearhead of change

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 clear belief that ...

Socialists call for ‘Independence Alliance’ in General Election

November 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 Patrick Harvie inviting ...

Why the SSP backs a ‘Citizen’s Income’

November 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 do the necessary ...

Labour for Independence leader joins Scottish Socialist Party

October 22, 2014 // 1 Comment

‘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 vote at the referendum. Not ...

Demand a Scottish £10/hour minimum wage – resist Tory class war

October 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 Orwell’s Animal Farm. Well ...

Politics moves right in England – Labour faces Scottish meltdown

October 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 Scottish independence. ...

Let’s target the real scroungers

October 22, 2014 // 1 Comment

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 Government. Nicola Sturgeon ...