For people and for planet, Scotland needs real change
Editorial by Ken Ferguson If we are to believe the media pundits, Scottish politics is about to be a battle between a leftward moving Scottish Labour squaring up to take on ...
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Scottish Labour’s main business now is to avoid extinction
John McAllion assesses Scottish Labour’s fall Labour’s cataclysmic electoral defeat has sparked the resignation of its losing leaders north and south of the border, the ...
Now defy Tory class war
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Words fail to adequately convey the enormity of the ‘ballot box revolution’ witnessed in the General Election. But an ...
What awaits new SNP MPs – if the polls are correct?
former MP and MSP John McAllion sounds a warning… Labour’s left wing icon Nye Bevan was first elected as a MP in 1929 shortly before the Wall Street crash that led to ...
Will unionist woes open door to real change?
by Ken Ferguson Nick Clegg makes a desperate bid to rally about to be eclipsed Scottish Lib Dems and makes fantasy world claims about his party defeating the SNP. In the ...
‘It’s the economy, stupid’
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. ...
Labour’s hegemony in Scotland is over
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. ...
SSP puts living wage at centre of general election campaign
by Colin Fox, SSP co-spokesperson Next week the Scottish Socialist Party will announce the seats we will contest in May’s General Election. Each of our candidates will be ...
Never mind Salmond – what’s Labour’s ‘Plan B’ to halt ConDem cuts?
by John McAllion The timing of the independence referendum was always going to cause major problems for the No camp. For more than four years Scotland has suffered under a ...
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