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Fight on for fair pay: reject the offers in NHS and local government

April 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Workers in both the NHS and local authorities are balloting on pay offers from the Scottish Government and COSLA, the local government ...

Socialists must prepare for next war, not the last one

August 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · It is often said that politicians, diplomats and generals prepare to fight their battles with plans based on what happened during the last war they fought only to find that this ...

VOICE EXTRA: Tory lockdown mayhem – organise workers for safety first

May 13, 2020 // 1 Comment

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Boris Johnson’s TV broadcast to ‘the nation’ and subsequent twists, turns and publication of documents on ‘rebuilding the ...

Tories cost workers’ lives

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Lions led by donkeys in the war on C-19 · “Lions led by donkeys” was the wildly popular insult levelled at incompetent, aloof Generals as they threw masses of soldiers into senseless slaughter ...

Roz’s treatment to be NHS-funded

February 8, 2019 // 1 Comment

by Simon Whittle · “Something just happened, and like a magic wand, it changes everything.” After raising a whopping £320,000 in a matter of weeks for urgent cancer treatment in the USA, ...

Social care must be a right for all

June 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Natalie Reid, SSP national co-spokesperson • It’s no secret that social care funding is in crisis, in Scotland and across the UK as a whole. Inevitably, this has led to inequality in social ...

50 years after the Abortion Act – what now?

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Jenni Gunn • 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Rights Act—making abortion legal and free on the National Health Service. The passing of the Act was a watershed moment in the ...

Militant celebration marks abortion act anniversary

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Norman Lockhart In Edinburgh on Saturday 25 April there was an international militant celebration of the 47 years since the passing of the Abortion Act which started to decriminalise women taking ...

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 ...

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 ...