liberal democrats

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 ...

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 ...

Hope is coming – Scotland’s left needs to be part of it

February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 Syriza victory is then is ...

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 ...

The Scotland that helped return Blair’s landslide no longer exists

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 over Labour in voting ...

Land reform: ‘If the Lairds are looking worried – good!’

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 EU’s Common Agricultural ...