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Voice Forum: Socialist Solutions to Climate Change

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

What progressive solutions to climate change can save the world and make the lives of working people better? Saturday 29th June, 11am-1pm, Grassmarket Centre, Edinburgh EH1 2QA · For tickets and ...

Free public transport: SSP day of action

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Hugh Cullen, SSP National Secretary · SSP branches and members took to bus, ferry, train, tram and subway stations on Saturday 15 June, campaigning for Free Public Transport as part of a national ...

What are the progressive class solutions in climate change debate?

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · I’m looking forward to the Scottish Socialist Voice Forum on how to counter the threat climate change poses in ways that enrich and improve the lives ...

A clean green Scotland is possible… if we act quickly

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Annie Morgan, Glasgow South SSP • The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that we have little more than a decade to curb emissions or face catastrophic climate ...

Sleeves-rolled-up time for peace activists

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by David McKenzie • Trump has confirmed that the US will unilaterally pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). This is a bi-lateral treaty between the US and Russia and bans ...

Climate change: Big Oil knew all along

April 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • You know what the worst thing is? They knew all along. Yes, they did! But then, you knew they knew, didn’t you? In your heart of hearts. In a sea of knowledge, they just ...

Free public transport can bring social justice and slash pollution

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • Whether or not Margaret Thatcher ever actually stated that a 26 year old man riding on a bus should consider himself a failure, taking the bus in UK plc has long since ceased to ...

US chlorinated chicken the tip of a nasty iceberg

February 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • Hey, happy new year! Have you noticed that Liam Fox, currently UK Trade Secretary, keeps saying that US-produced chicken is ‘perfectly safe’? Does that worry you at all, as ...

BiFab battle shows why we need public ownership

November 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • The successful outcome of the battle to protect the green jobs and skills at the BiFab engineering yards is a rare and highly welcome victory for workers and their unions. It is ...

Loch Lomond flamingos won’t fly

November 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • The bonny banks of Loch Lomond may very well be a haven of beauty and tranquillity, available to all, for free…but that doesn’t mean it can’t all be turned over to ...