RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance

Brexit battles smokescreen as Tory hard right show teeth

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • The conventional media wisdom that the British state is in confusion post the Brexit vote is a best lazy thinking and in some respects dangerous nonsense. The Tory right is firmly ...

RISE to put indyref2, economic and social justice at centre of campaign

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter • The tax-dodging scandal exposed by the Panama papers showing the London money moguls up to their necks in hiding tax dodgers billions in what are effectively British colonies ...

School closures further expose cost of Labour moneylenders fiasco

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate in the Lothians • As the Voice went to press, the Scottish Parliament elections were dominated by the closure of 17 of Edinburgh’s schools on safety grounds. ...

Unions must take action for £10NOW

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The season of major trade union conferences is kicking off, amidst the cacophony of barefaced lies about the Tories’ £7.20 for over-25s ...

How to win an industrial dispute in three not so easy lessons

April 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Billy McChord, EIS-FELA Executive member, Branch Convener and RISE activist • There is much to be learned from the recent experience of the Further Education Lecturers Association’s ...

Solving the environmental crisis can not be left to the Greens

February 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson We are experiencing “a step change from one world to another…the changes are as big as those that happened at the end of the last ice age.” So says the lead author of a ...

2016 presents Scotland’s left with unprecedented challenges

February 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

by John McAllion In July of 1988, the Queen addressed both Houses of Parliament on the occasion of the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution. Her address, awash with complacency and condescension, ...

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, ...

RISE conference signals start of left challenge for Holyrood 2016

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jonathon Shafi Next May’s Holyrood election will be strikingly different from others before it coming as they will just twenty months after the biggest mass movement in Scottish history, the Yes ...

Scotland’s left alliance on the rise

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The background political context to the RISE conference in Glasgow this weekend could hardly be more significant. Having declared war on the poor at home ...