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‘We can’t give up on Zero Hours Contracts just because the Tories have a majority’

June 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Richie Venton spoke to Alan Milne, Scottish Organiser of the Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) on current events and campaigns What’s been happening lately on the campaign amongst ...

Energy companies tax the poor

June 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson A new government, and will anything change? Politicians may eloquently preach about life with fuel poverty meanwhile it was announced that under the ...

Disunited kingdom

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 of Commons shows they ...

The more Cameron vilifies the SNP, the more Scots voters flock to the nationalists

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson This General Election appears to be a foregone conclusion. The polls all predict another hung Parliament. And the more David Cameron vilifies the SNP (in ...

A people’s manifesto

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson We should be proud of our manifesto which is a blueprint for our policies. Policies which present our vision of independence and a statement of intent ...

Labour’s hegemony in Scotland is over

March 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson With the General Election two months away, the polls predict a hung Parliament at Westminster and Labour being routed in Scotland. David Cameron is ...

What difference will replacing ATOS make?

March 13, 2015 // 3 Comments

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson In October of last year, ATOS—much loved by campaigners against the work capability assessments—announced they would be exiting their contract with ...

Service Tax challenge to council austerity budgets

February 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Calum Martin, Edinburgh South & Midlothian SSP Council chambers across Scotland must be echoing with the sound of grating steel this week, as one after another, council administrations have ...

Voters demand more powers – polls predict Labour meltdown

February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson As a Tory, Lord Ashcroft has every interest in undermining Labour’s morale ahead of May’s General Election. Yet his latest poll of 16 Scottish ...

The door is opening to a Scotland of real change

February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Despite installing supposed street fighter Jim Murphy as leader, the peoples party’s slide continues. As we report elsewhere in this issue, the ...