In a world of spin, the facts will set you free
by Ken Ferguson · The cheering which met the supposedly stunning defeat of the SNP leadership on a Scottish currency had barely died down when the party’s legendary spin machine went into ...
poverty
‘A social wrong as great as the poll tax’
by Sandra Webster · April: a time of rebirth of new opportunities. Our government is using the Brexit debates to hide some very bad news and ridiculous payments to those with the most need. Surely ...
Record numbers swindled out of statutory minimum wage
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • One million people in Scotland live in poverty today according to Government figures and most of them are working. It used to be the case that work was ...
For action against poverty and insecurity
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The British TUC meets in Manchester for its annual congress, 150 years after its founding meeting in the Mechanics Institute of the same city. ...
Free public transport can bring social justice and slash pollution
by Roz Paterson • Whether or not Margaret Thatcher ever actually stated that a 26 year old man riding on a bus should consider himself a failure, taking the bus in UK plc has long since ceased to ...
Scottish Socialist Party £10/hr demo puts the bite on Apple
by Hugh Cullen and Michael Davidson • The Lothians branch of the SSP organised a demonstration at the Apple Store on Princes Street recently, demanding a £10-an-hour Living Wage for all their UK ...
A hurricane with no shelter for people with disabilities
Sandra Webster warns of the looming cruelties of Universal Credit • When big business is saying that this Tory Government are no longer the party of big business and reminiscing about the ...
Red card for Tory MP’s ‘vile rhetoric’ on travellers
by Colin Turbett • One of the unintended consequences of the Scottish Government’s welcome implementation of Road Equivalent Tariff for ferry fares (i.e. significant fare reductions) to Scottish ...
The left must educate, agitate, organise
by Jenni Gunn • In many years to come, when historians look back at Trump’s (hopefully short) presidency, they will look to the women’s marches in the wake of his inauguration as the beginning ...
Meeting people’s priorities is key to winning indyref 2
by Ken Ferguson • Amidst the all enveloping fog of Brexit claim and counter claim, the outline of what lies ahead appears with growing clarity. In the run up to the June Euro poll, the Voice ...
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