no thanks

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 ...

Voters demand more powers – polls predict Labour meltdown

February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson As a Tory, Lord Ashcroft has every interest in undermining Labour’s morale ahead of May’s General Election. Yet his latest poll of 16 Scottish ...

The door is opening to a Scotland of real change

February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Despite installing supposed street fighter Jim Murphy as leader, the peoples party’s slide continues. As we report elsewhere in this issue, the ...

£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 ...

Smith Commission: no more apologies

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson The morning after the night of the referendum, Cameron left Downing Street to promise to keep the vow to the Scottish people but with a caveat. More ...

The Scotland we are living in now was inconceivable three short years ago

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Alan Bissett The No vote in the referendum in September was truly devastating to those of us who voted Yes. We felt it as yet another blow to social justice—to the new, mass alliance of ...

A people before profit Scotland is the spearhead of change

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson At the heart of the broad vibrant Yes campaign, which culminated with a massive 45 per cent vote in September’s independence referendum, was the clear belief that ...

No more business as usual politics post-referendum

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

by John McAllion, former Labour MP and MSP, now an SSP member As commentators variously try to make sense of Scotland’s post-referendum landscape, it is becoming ever clearer that we are now in ...