Will Westminster’s indy nightmare return after May?
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 ...
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Capitalist corruption in breadline Britain
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 ...
Is Holyrood investing in arms and fossil fuels?
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’ ...
Hope is coming – Scotland’s left needs to be part of it
by Jonathon Shafi Hope has returned to Europe. After years of brutal austerity measures, the people of Greece have delivered a body blow to the bankers and technocrats. The ...
Billionaires and buttons for wages
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 ...
Tory class war on workers’ rights
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 ...
£10 NOW! For a Scottish minimum wage to outlaw poverty pay
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 ...
Scotland’s socialist party enjoys year like no other
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 ...
The Scotland that helped return Blair’s landslide no longer exists
by John McAllion, ex-Labour MP and MSP, now with the Scottish Socialist Party At the time of writing, the most recent opinion poll in Scotland gave the SNP a 15 point lead ...
Land reform: ‘If the Lairds are looking worried – good!’
Highlands MSP John Finnie takes a look at the latest land reform proposals There I was, tweeting information a newspaper had obtained under Freedom of Information about the ...
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