New left party shakes up Spanish politics
by Jack Ferguson 2014 has been a dramatic political year, and not only in Scotland. In the Spanish state, a completely new party founded only in January is now being talked ...
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Independence not defeated but deferred
Scottish Socialist Party media release The Scottish Socialist Party is naturally disappointed by last night’s result. It is setback for the forces of social democracy ...
Labour voters moving to Yes
by Alan Bissett Here we are going into the last fortnight of the long campaign for Scottish independence and things are now very exciting indeed. The latest poll, from the ...
Which side are you on?
by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice After the long campaign, the scares, the experts and the claim and counter claim as 18 September approaches, the question is ...
Why I’m voting for independence
by Colin Fox, Scottish Socialist Party co-spokesperson Voting Yes on 18 September unlocks a door to previously unreachable possibilities for working class people in ...
For social justice, fairness and equality
by Jeane Freeman, Women for Independence I grew up supporting the Labour Party. For a time, I was a Labour member and for four privileged years I worked for the party when it ...
Workers need to vote Yes
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser and USDAW workplace convener The working class make up the vast majority population, but we get a shrinking minority of the ...
‘Vote Yes to protect NHS from privatisation’
by Mandy Nimmo, Staff Nurse The NHS in England is being privatised through the back door by the Tories. I’m voting Yes because I want to protect the NHS from cuts and ...
Another Scotland is possible
by John McAllion, Scottish Socialist Party (former Labour MP and MSP) One memento I have kept from my time as a Labour politician is a CD of the Reverend Hammer’s Freeborn ...
Vote Yes to throw off elite rule
by Jean Urquhart MSP and John Finnie MSP The referendum has seen the greatest explosion of political engagement in our lifetimes. People in Britain are generally told that ...
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