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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 ...

Will unionist woes open door to real change?

March 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson Nick Clegg makes a desperate bid to rally about to be eclipsed Scottish Lib Dems and makes fantasy world claims about his party defeating the SNP. In the heart of Red Clydeside in ...

Will Westminster’s indy nightmare return after May?

March 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

by John McAllion Westminster politics has long been haunted by the spectre of Scottish independence. Since the SNP’s Winnie Ewing sensationally captured the previously rock solid Labour seat of ...

Labour’s hegemony in Scotland is over

March 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson With the General Election two months away, the polls predict a hung Parliament at Westminster and Labour being routed in Scotland. David Cameron is ...

Capitalist corruption in breadline Britain

February 16, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser There’s a stink of corruption arising from the body of capitalism. The world’s second-biggest bank, HSBC, has hit the headlines for providing a ...

Is Holyrood investing in arms and fossil fuels?

February 16, 2015 // 1 Comment

Highlands and Islands MSP John Finnie lifts the lid In these hard times it’s vital that the public are able to understand where their hard-earned money is ‘invested’ and, vitally, who the ...

Billionaires and buttons for wages

January 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The crime of poverty pay is becoming even more criminal. In a cheap stunt to absorb some of the growing fury of working class people at appalling ...

Tory class war on workers’ rights

January 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Anyone who doubts we are in the midst of a class war hasn’t been awake recently! The Tory party election manifesto for May’s Westminster ...

£10 NOW! For a Scottish minimum wage to outlaw poverty pay

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Poverty scars the face of Scotland. Poverty pay is at the heart of it. And the only thing more ugly than the national scandal of a million Scots ...

Scotland’s socialist party enjoys year like no other

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson 2014 was a year the Scottish Socialist Party will not forget. It went so fast it is easy to forget all that happened in twelve hectic months. Like everyone ...