Ferries: sold down the river?
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Back in May 2012, the Northern Isles ferry service was privatised by the Scottish Government, who handed the £350million ...
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Mass action central to defeat Tory brutality
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 ...
Disunited kingdom
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 ...
The cruelty and greed of Westminster’s elite
by Ken Ferguson As hundreds perish in coffin ships in the Mediterranean, fleeing poverty and war, the elites running the EU call a meeting. These are the same elites who ...
What awaits new SNP MPs – if the polls are correct?
former MP and MSP John McAllion sounds a warning… Labour’s left wing icon Nye Bevan was first elected as a MP in 1929 shortly before the Wall Street crash that led to ...
A people’s manifesto
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson We should be proud of our manifesto which is a blueprint for our policies. Policies which present our vision of independence ...
Standing up for Scotland’s working class majority
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser It was Easter Monday. As I drove to work, the car radio announced the next programme, ‘Wake up to Money’. Aye, right, ...
Can Westminster poll open the way for revitalised Scottish left?
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, ...
Will unionist woes open door to real change?
by Ken Ferguson Nick Clegg makes a desperate bid to rally about to be eclipsed Scottish Lib Dems and makes fantasy world claims about his party defeating the SNP. In the ...
Workers ask: Whose side are the parties on?
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser You could be forgiven for forgetting that the working class make up the vast majority of the population, judging by how our ...
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