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Socialists call for ‘Independence Alliance’ in General Election

November 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Scottish Socialist Party media release Scottish Socialist Party national spokesman Colin Fox has written to SNP leader elect Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Green Party leader Patrick Harvie inviting ...

Scottish Labour’s last supper?

November 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Katie Bonnar Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Labour’s Gala Dinner in Glasgow was envisaged to be a chance for the party to make sure they got the credit for saving the Union while raising some ...

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

November 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

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: “The exposé of Labour as ...

Why the SSP backs a ‘Citizen’s Income’

November 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 do the necessary ...

TTIP: a threat to democracy

November 7, 2014 // 1 Comment

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 for passage through the ...

For social justice, fairness and equality

September 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Jeane Freeman, Women for Independence I grew up supporting the Labour Party. For a time, I was a Labour member and for four privileged years I worked for the party when it was in government at ...

Vote Yes to break the walls of cynicism

September 4, 2014 // 1 Comment

by Mary Lockhart, Labour and Co-operative Party member, feminist activist Others have written of the political and structural reasons for their decision to vote Yes. With some of these reasons, I ...