Scottish Socialist Party

Building solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution: why the SSP is visiting Venezuela

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar, SSP International Secretary · Later this month I will be representing the Scottish Socialist Party on a solidarity visit to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. The SSP has been clear in ...

Free public transport: SSP day of action

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Hugh Cullen, SSP National Secretary · SSP branches and members took to bus, ferry, train, tram and subway stations on Saturday 15 June, campaigning for Free Public Transport as part of a national ...

What are the progressive class solutions in climate change debate?

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · I’m looking forward to the Scottish Socialist Voice Forum on how to counter the threat climate change poses in ways that enrich and improve the lives ...

In a world of spin, the facts will set you free

May 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · The cheering which met the supposedly stunning defeat of the SNP leadership on a Scottish currency had barely died down when the party’s legendary spin machine went into ...

SSP indy call: back real change

May 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Last weekend’s SNP Conference voted to endorse the Sustainable Growth Commission’s case for independence. Or did it? For whilst the media focused on ...

Time the left faced indy’s new challenges

March 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Isn’t it strange how Brexit is being blamed for everything from Honda’s decision to close its Swindon factory to the unseasonal February weather? ...

Nationalise to save Springburn rail depot

March 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP workplace organiser · Workers at the historic railway depot in Springburn, Glasgow, are battling against its closure, with the loss of nearly 200 highly skilled jobs and 160 ...

Rosa Luxemburg: socialist icon

January 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Turbett • 100 years ago this month, Rosa Luxemburg was beaten up and shot dead in Berlin by Freikorps members, the forerunners of the Nazis, on the implicit orders of the leaders of the ...

The New Victorians: tinned tuna and Tory grandees

December 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster • At our branch last night, we had a discussion about Dickens and his reasons for writing A Christmas Carol. This book was written just at the time Queen Victoria’s marriage to ...

Peoples’ interests remain in austerity’s cross hairs

December 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • How many Tory MPs will rebel? Will May fall? Deal or no deal? As the Voice goes to press, the swirl of speculation among the political classes, media “experts” and policy ...