‘System change not climate change’
RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance to join climate march, 28 Nov, Edinburgh by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson Governments from all countries will assemble in Paris from 30 November to 11 ...
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For people and for planet, Scotland needs real change
Editorial by Ken Ferguson If we are to believe the media pundits, Scottish politics is about to be a battle between a leftward moving Scottish Labour squaring up to take on an already left wing ...
Brutality of Tory cuts swells the opposition
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson As the Voice has been reporting, the cuts are getting worse. The Tories pledged to make £12billion in benefit cuts and voted in with an unexpected ...
Where is the SNP going on fracking?
by Allan Grogan Thomas Carlyle once wrote that “the greatest of faults… is to be conscious of none”. I am often reminded of this as I see the Scottish Government attempt to be all ...
Water privatised, ferries tendered, fracking test drills roll as SNP govern
by Ken Ferguson The long Teflon-coated SNP administration in Holyrood is facing growing turbulence as it struggles to square its public image as a left wing anti-austerity government with the reality ...
Both Corbynmania and Nicolamania in retreat
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson “Amid all the talk about the if, when, how and why of a second referendum, a technicality is being overlooked,” Sunday Herald columnist Ian Bell reminds ...
Neither Sturgeon or Corbyn have the answer
by Ken Ferguson There is an old saying “nothing is new under the sun” and nowhere is this more clearly the case as in the world of politics. With the demands and the pressures of a 24/7 news ...
Corbynmania and Nicolamania
Where now for the socialist left in Scotland? by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson “Jeremy Corbyn is a thoroughly decent man. Everyone who has met him would describe him this way,” said the ...
Citizen’s Income right policy to unify reds and greens
by Jack Ferguson To many people in places as diverse as Switzerland, Finland, the Dutch city of Utrecht and the Canadian province of Alberta, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is an idea whose time has ...
Energy of mass independence campaign creates need for RISE
by Jonathon Shafi We live in a historical moment marked by deep and profound ideological and social flux. If you are unconvinced by this, just think back ten years from now: Tony Blair had just won a ...
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