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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 ...

Conference marks next stage for Scotland’s Left Alliance

November 20, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Jonathon Shafi RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance, is on the cusp of moving on to the next phase of our development. Since our launch at the end of August we have been developing local activist ...

Energy of mass independence campaign creates need for RISE

August 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jonathon Shafi We live in a historical moment marked by deep and profound ideological and social flux. If you are unconvinced by this, just think back ten years from now: Tony Blair had just won a ...

SSP conference sets out party strategy for the year ahead

June 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The SSP Annual Conference in Edinburgh last weekend provided a timely opportunity for members to reflect on the outcome of the General Election. ...

Can Westminster poll open the way for revitalised Scottish left?

March 26, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Jonathon Shafi Much has been made in recent months about the depth of the crisis of the British state. The UK state is used to crisis of course. It has withstood wars, domestic unrest, general ...

The political awakening is here to stay

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Jonathon Shafi, Radical Independence Campaign Everyone remembers those exciting days and weeks on the lead up the referendum. For most of us this was the most exciting political period we had ever ...

Upbeat SSP conference charts way ahead

November 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter The first post-referendum conference of the Scottish Socialist Party which met last month in Edinburgh was an inspirational event. Reflecting the flood of new members which the SSP, ...

Challenges and opportunities

October 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Jonathon Shafi, Radical Independence Campaign After a two-year independence campaign it is important that we all take a moment to reflect. For the Scottish left, we can look back with a great deal ...

Working class reject fat cat rule for Yes vote

August 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Jonathon Shafi, Radical Independence Campaign Beneath the headlines, unknown to formal politics and certainly to Better Together, a quiet revolution is taking place. For decades people have put up ...

21st century Britain is glaringly unjust and getting worse

August 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Jonathon Shafi The UK is now so far down the path of privatisation and austerity, that deviating from it will take a movement on the scale of the Chartists to turn back the tide. Twenty per cent ...