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Unions must break from Labour Tories: stop funding arsonists to torch your home!

November 7, 2014

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser On 1 July 2014 I wrote an article for the Voice—“Ructions after the Referendum”—which included the statement: ...

Why the SSP backs a ‘Citizen’s Income’

November 7, 2014

by Gerry McCartney and Wendy Macdonald At its annual conference in Edinburgh last month the SSP decided to campaign for the introduction of a Citizen’s Income (CI) and to ...

TTIP: a threat to democracy

November 7, 2014

by Bill Newman The innocent-sounding US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is currently being prepared behind closed doors by overpaid corporate lawyers ...

Labour for Independence leader joins Scottish Socialist Party

October 22, 2014

‘Put socialism back at the forefront of political life’ by Allan Grogan For the last two and a half years I have campaigned within Labour for Independence to win a Yes ...

Demand a Scottish £10/hour minimum wage – resist Tory class war

October 22, 2014

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”, was the memorable satirical line in George ...

Politics moves right in England – Labour faces Scottish meltdown

October 22, 2014

by John McAllion, ex-Labour MP and MSP, now an SSP member Unionist politicians have tried to spin the result of the referendum as an irrevocable defeat for the very idea of ...

SSP goes from strength to strength

October 22, 2014

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The SSP meets in Edinburgh for our annual conference this weekend, basking in the glow of an exhilarating independence campaign and ...

Let’s target the real scroungers

October 22, 2014

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson In the lead up to the referendum vote, the future of the welfare state was one of the issues referred to by the Scottish ...

Can Yes candidates challenge Westminster elites?

October 2, 2014

by John Finnie MSP The votes have been counted and our tears have been shed. Yet, within hours of the result it was becoming apparent that far from the eternal triumph of the ...

Westminster parties ‘vow’ more austerity

October 2, 2014

by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Seldom can the cruel reality behind the smiling mask of the British establishment been so rapidly and comprehensively ...