£10 NOW! For a Scottish minimum wage to outlaw poverty pay
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Poverty scars the face of Scotland. Poverty pay is at the heart of it. And the only thing more ugly than the national ...
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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 ...
Land reform: ‘If the Lairds are looking worried – good!’
Highlands MSP John Finnie takes a look at the latest land reform proposals There I was, tweeting information a newspaper had obtained under Freedom of Information about the ...
Trident moves centre stage
by David McKenzie, Scrap Trident Coalition In the early days of the Yes campaign, I recall having sometimes to argue for a place for UK nukes within the list of critical ...
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 ...
Defy all cuts: set No Cuts budgets, axe the Council Tax, tax the rich
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Councils across Scotland are poised to wield the knife to jobs and local services in a renewed round of municipal ...
Independence alliance or SNP dalliance
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The Radical Independence Campaign conference this weekend takes place within earshot of Nicola Sturgeon’s coronation ...
More care charities face the cuts cosh
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson Recently we saw the extravaganza that is Children in Need, where a plenitude of celebrities urge us to donate to a charity ...
The political awakening is here to stay
by Jonathon Shafi, Radical Independence Campaign Everyone remembers those exciting days and weeks on the lead up the referendum. For most of us this was the most exciting ...
Nothing can be the same for Scotland’s media
by Paul Holleran, Scottish Organiser, NUJ It has been said by many people in Scotland since the independence referendum that “things will never be the same again”. ...
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