Social care must be a right for all
by Natalie Reid, SSP national co-spokesperson • It’s no secret that social care funding is in crisis, in Scotland and across the UK as a whole. Inevitably, this has led ...
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Protecting the most vulnerable… Tory style
by Sandra Webster • The mantra of the caring, sharing Tory party is “We will protect the most vulnerable.” It was banged out during the last general election campaign ...
Action against benefit sanctions must increase
by Jack Ferguson • The release of Ken Loach’s new film I, Daniel Blake marks a cultural landmark, and is destined to be the defining way in which the injustice of ...
Brexit battles smokescreen as Tory hard right show teeth
by Ken Ferguson • The conventional media wisdom that the British state is in confusion post the Brexit vote is a best lazy thinking and in some respects dangerous nonsense. ...
Brexit puts EU-based environmental controls at risk
by Roz Paterson • In the wake of almost certain Brexit, the pariah that is the UK may well have to prostrate itself at the feet of anyone willing to do business, even ...
Is it time to campaign for a Basic Income?
by Gerry McCartney • The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has just passed a Unite motion at their recent conference in Brighton to support a policy of a Universal Basic Income ...
Kurds’ ultimate fight for democracy
by Sean Baillie • As part of a delegation organised by the Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan campaign, I was invited to the Democratic Union Party’s (PYD) 8th Congress, ...
Education under occupation
by Hugh Cullen, SSP member • I spent September in Al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank, Palestine. I was working with International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a ...
Indyref can’t be Nicola’s Trident
by Ken Ferguson • First Minister Sturgeon’s confirmation—amidst cheers from SNP conference delegates—of a draft Bill on Indyref 2 both ups the ante while buying time ...
Why green capitalism can’t work
Book review: Green Capitalism: Why It Can’t Work by Daniel Tanuro from Resistance Books • by Norman Lockhart • I was glad I invested £10 for this book, even though ...
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