by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Last weekend’s SNP Conference voted to endorse the Sustainable Growth Commission’s case for independence. Or did it? For whilst the media focused on ...
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, ...
by Jenni Gunn The Yes campaign and the referendum as a whole served as an intense political education for many Scots—myself included. The experience is one that many campaigners will never forget: ...
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson “Amid all the talk about the if, when, how and why of a second referendum, a technicality is being overlooked,” Sunday Herald columnist Ian Bell reminds ...
by Jim Sillars To know why the Scottish Parliament, after the 2016 election, must command a majority for a second independence mandate, look not only at the present but at the 2020 Westminster ...
JIM SILLARS on why independence and a left Holyrood challenge is essential Austerity is a socioeconomic envelope which, for those in it, means low wages, zero hours contracts, constant anxiety about ...
by Colin Fox, SSP co-spokesperson With six weeks to go until the referendum the Yes side still has it all to do. The opinion polls suggest the gap between the two sides has narrowed recently but we ...