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Will Westminster’s crisis be Scotland’s opportunity?

February 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • With each passing day the multi-sided crisis racking the May government throws up another issue and another bout of speculation about the Prime Minister’s survival. Casting ...

Citizen’s Income right policy to unify reds and greens

August 31, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Jack Ferguson To many people in places as diverse as Switzerland, Finland, the Dutch city of Utrecht and the Canadian province of Alberta, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is an idea whose time has ...

From Athens to London: elites entrench rich minority rule

August 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson The brutal crushing of the Greek people by the unelected Troika heaps further economic misery on them in order to sustain a neoliberal economic order whose central aim is to reverse ...

Soundbite Labour still signed up for austerity

March 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

by John McAllion The reception given to the Coalition’s pre-election budget was universally hostile among what remains of left of centre newspapers in Britain. An Observer editorial described it as ...

‘It’s the economy, stupid’

March 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson George Osborne’s Budget acclaimed UK economic growth of 2.5 per cent last year, record employment levels and low interest rates. Designed to win the ...

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 ...

Personal independence payments: the attacks continue relentlessly

January 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster, SSP co-spokesperson It is time for the ConDems to put aside peace and goodwill to all men and continue with their dismantling of the Welfare State. The DWP have announced the new ...

Economic and social realities at heart of referendum debate

July 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, Scottish Socialist Party co-spokesperon No other country in the world is so exercised by such an imminent and far-reaching political decision as Scotland today. Politics has been ...