scottish national party

As SNP put NorthLink ferries out to tender, RMT pledge to continue nationalisation fight

June 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Gordon Martin, Scottish Regional Organiser, RMT • Following several months of will-they-or-won’t-they, the SNP Scottish Government delivered the news on Thursday 24 May that they wouldn’t ...

Growth Report ignores working class

June 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • Andrew Wilson’s long awaited Sustainable Growth Commission Report was finally published last week, and it has gone down like the proverbial lead ...

Holyrood must axe offensive behaviour at football law

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Liam McLaughlin • With the Holyrood election now over, and the hurt of a bruising night for the left and progressive forces involved with the pro-independence campaign of 2014 starting to ...

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, ...

For people and for planet, Scotland needs real change

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 ...

Water privatised, ferries tendered, fracking test drills roll as SNP govern

October 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 ...

SNP in power: anti-austerity or let’s not rock the boat?

August 17, 2015 // 1 Comment

Colin Turbett reports Until earlier this year, I was involved as a UNISON activist in responding each year to my council employer’s budget proposals. In 2012, as elsewhere in Scotland, this changed ...

Mass action central to defeat Tory brutality

May 22, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Ken Ferguson First of all, there is no doubt that the election result in Scotland is quite simply historic, sweeping away a Labour dominance which lasted for over half a century. From pretend ...

Disunited kingdom

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The Tories’ General Election victory has revealed a starkly divided ‘Kingdom’. The distribution of the 650 seats in the House of Commons shows they ...