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For people and for planet, Scotland needs real change

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 an already left wing ...

Scottish Labour’s main business now is to avoid extinction

June 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 simultaneous launch of ...

Now defy Tory class war

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 emboldened Tory ...

What awaits new SNP MPs – if the polls are correct?

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 the last Great ...

Will unionist woes open door to real change?

March 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 heart of Red Clydeside in ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

SSP puts living wage at centre of general election campaign

January 18, 2015 // 1 Comment

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 standing on an ...

Never mind Salmond – what’s Labour’s ‘Plan B’ to halt ConDem cuts?

August 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 government it did not elect ...