8th March: International Women’s Day – let’s make it happen!
by Sandra Webster, Katie Bonnar, Hollie Cameron, Jenni Gunn and Christine McVicar ‘Make it happen’ is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. The day we ...
Westminster
Capitalist corruption in breadline Britain
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser There’s a stink of corruption arising from the body of capitalism. The world’s second-biggest bank, HSBC, has hit the ...
Independent women
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson One of the greatest strengths of the Yes campaign was a positive vision of a different kind of politics. One where more voices ...
Hope is coming – Scotland’s left needs to be part of it
by Jonathon Shafi Hope has returned to Europe. After years of brutal austerity measures, the people of Greece have delivered a body blow to the bankers and technocrats. The ...
Voters demand more powers – polls predict Labour meltdown
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson As a Tory, Lord Ashcroft has every interest in undermining Labour’s morale ahead of May’s General Election. Yet his latest poll ...
The door is opening to a Scotland of real change
by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Despite installing supposed street fighter Jim Murphy as leader, the peoples party’s slide continues. As we report ...
Billionaires and buttons for wages
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The crime of poverty pay is becoming even more criminal. In a cheap stunt to absorb some of the growing fury of working ...
Behind Murphy’s tartan paint job, has anything changed?
by John McAllion, ex-Labour MP/MSP, now with the SSP Almost from the moment he was elected Scottish leader, Jim Murphy sought to emulate his political hero Tony Blair. One of ...
Defy all cuts: there is an alternative
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The contrast could not be starker. As the people of Greece give a resounding NO! to austerity, the councillors of Scotland ...
People’s movement still essential to dump Trident
by David Mackenzie, Scrap Trident Coalition Those of us who have spent years in the nuclear disarmament effort are rubbing our eyes. The UK’s nuclear weapon system is ...
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