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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 ...

GM salmon to be let loose

February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Roz Paterson reports Q: When is a fish not a fish? A: When it’s a commodity. OK, not exactly side-splitting, but then the introduction of Genetically Engineered (GE) salmon into the human food ...

Is Holyrood investing in arms and fossil fuels?

February 16, 2015 // 1 Comment

Highlands and Islands MSP John Finnie lifts the lid In these hard times it’s vital that the public are able to understand where their hard-earned money is ‘invested’ and, vitally, who the ...

Hope is coming – Scotland’s left needs to be part of it

February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jonathon Shafi Hope has returned to Europe. After years of brutal austerity measures, the people of Greece have delivered a body blow to the bankers and technocrats. The Syriza victory is then is ...

Scotland’s socialist party enjoys year like no other

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 hectic months. Like everyone ...

The Scotland that helped return Blair’s landslide no longer exists

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

by John McAllion, ex-Labour MP and MSP, now with the Scottish Socialist Party At the time of writing, the most recent opinion poll in Scotland gave the SNP a 15 point lead over Labour in voting ...

Land reform: ‘If the Lairds are looking worried – good!’

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 EU’s Common Agricultural ...

Smith Commission: no more apologies

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson The morning after the night of the referendum, Cameron left Downing Street to promise to keep the vow to the Scottish people but with a caveat. More ...

The Scotland we are living in now was inconceivable three short years ago

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 the new, mass alliance of ...

A people before profit Scotland is the spearhead of change

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson At the heart of the broad vibrant Yes campaign, which culminated with a massive 45 per cent vote in September’s independence referendum, was the clear belief that ...