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RISE to put indyref2, economic and social justice at centre of campaign

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter • The tax-dodging scandal exposed by the Panama papers showing the London money moguls up to their necks in hiding tax dodgers billions in what are effectively British colonies ...

Land reform: much remains to be done

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • “I have described the Grampians as a great faunal region—and so, according to our twentieth-century standards, it is. I ought rather to have described them as a great faunal ...

2016 presents Scotland’s left with unprecedented challenges

February 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

by John McAllion In July of 1988, the Queen addressed both Houses of Parliament on the occasion of the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution. Her address, awash with complacency and condescension, ...

With Labour a political corpse, Scotland needs a new left

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jim Sillars It was little noticed at the time amid successive Blair-led Labour victories, that the ejection of Clause 4 from its constitution, and the destruction of its institutional structures, ...

RISE conference signals start of left challenge for Holyrood 2016

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jonathon Shafi Next May’s Holyrood election will be strikingly different from others before it coming as they will just twenty months after the biggest mass movement in Scottish history, the Yes ...

Scotland’s left alliance on the rise

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The background political context to the RISE conference in Glasgow this weekend could hardly be more significant. Having declared war on the poor at home ...

Will Women’s Equality Party put gender at the heart of politics?

November 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jenni Gunn The Women’s Equality Party (WEP), launched late this October, aims to further the goals of gender equality in the UK and intends to stand in next year’s Holyrood elections. Founded ...

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 ...

Water privatised, ferries tendered, fracking test drills roll as SNP govern

October 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson The long Teflon-coated SNP administration in Holyrood is facing growing turbulence as it struggles to square its public image as a left wing anti-austerity government with the reality ...

Benefit cuts link to deaths

October 2, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson All deaths impact on the family and friends of the person who has died. Especially so when it is by someone’s own hand. Frequently, suicide is ...