radical independence campaign

With Labour a political corpse, Scotland needs a new left

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jim Sillars It was little noticed at the time amid successive Blair-led Labour victories, that the ejection of Clause 4 from its constitution, and the destruction of its institutional structures, ...

Can Westminster poll open the way for revitalised Scottish left?

March 26, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Jonathon Shafi Much has been made in recent months about the depth of the crisis of the British state. The UK state is used to crisis of course. It has withstood wars, domestic unrest, general ...

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 ...

Greeks choose democracy over bankers’ barbarism

January 31, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Will the needs of people be able to prevail over the extortion of the bankers and moneylenders driving austerity and misery across Europe? This is ...

‘Hope is coming. Greece is advancing. Europe is changing’

January 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Greece elects first radical left wing government in Europe since 1930s by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson, reporting from Athens “Citizens of Athens, tonight’s success is not only a ...

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 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 ...

Defy all cuts: set No Cuts budgets, axe the Council Tax, tax the rich

November 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Councils across Scotland are poised to wield the knife to jobs and local services in a renewed round of municipal butchery. Councillors of ...