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 ...
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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 ...
Refugee crisis is foretaste of things to come from climate change
by Jack Ferguson In 2015, Europe has begun to get a small foretaste of the human costs of climate change. There are many complex reasons why there are thousands of desperate ...
Why the indyref changed us all
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson Looking at social media at the moment. It is full of people’s memories of when we were on the eve of the referendum, one ...
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 ...
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) ...
Holyrood 2016 needs mandate for second indyref
by Jim Sillars To know why the Scottish Parliament, after the 2016 election, must command a majority for a second independence mandate, look not only at the present but at ...
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: ...
Can the left stem the rising tide of Tory barbarism?
by Ken Ferguson It seems that with each passing day, the hard nosed Tory Etonians—running the UK on a minority of votes cast in May—land further blows on the poor, ...
From Athens to London: elites entrench rich minority rule
by Ken Ferguson The brutal crushing of the Greek people by the unelected Troika heaps further economic misery on them in order to sustain a neoliberal economic order whose ...
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