Jim Murphy

Can the left stem the rising tide of Tory barbarism?

August 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson It seems that with each passing day, the hard nosed Tory Etonians—running the UK on a minority of votes cast in May—land further blows on the poor, vulnerable victims of their ...

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 ...

Mass action central to defeat Tory brutality

May 22, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Ken Ferguson First of all, there is no doubt that the election result in Scotland is quite simply historic, sweeping away a Labour dominance which lasted for over half a century. From pretend ...

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 ...

The more Cameron vilifies the SNP, the more Scots voters flock to the nationalists

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson This General Election appears to be a foregone conclusion. The polls all predict another hung Parliament. And the more David Cameron vilifies the SNP (in ...

For workers’ action – not pleas to politicians

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The woman serving me a coffee at the STUC Conference spoke volumes in a short chat. After asking where I was from, and me explaining I represent the ...

Standing up for Scotland’s working class majority

April 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser It was Easter Monday. As I drove to work, the car radio announced the next programme, ‘Wake up to Money’. Aye, right, is that what they call ...

Soundbite Labour still signed up for austerity

March 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

by John McAllion The reception given to the Coalition’s pre-election budget was universally hostile among what remains of left of centre newspapers in Britain. An Observer editorial described it as ...

Murphy’s lips are moving…

March 13, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Ken Ferguson No need for a smart watch to count the ticking countdown to what looks increasingly like Labour’s date with doom on 7 May. Just count the increasingly frantic policy announcements ...