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Tide is turning: workers have the most to gain from Scottish independence

August 1, 2014

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Huge swathes of working class people in Scotland, including many who cling onto their Labour voting habits despite years of ...

Scottish independence can show the world a new model for the 21st century, writes Hue and Cry’s Pat Kane

August 1, 2014

by Pat Kane There are parts of Scotland where the past, the present and the future gets rolled up in one. I’m often to be found in and about Spiers Wharf in Glasgow. The ...

Restless Land: A people’s narrative of Scottish history

August 1, 2014

Book launch: Restless Land by Alan McCombes and Roz Paterson, published by Calton Books and distributed by AK Press by Frances Curran It was a book launch but not as we know ...

Voices for Yes: politicians, trade unionists, comedians, even Faslane nuclear base-workers speak up for independence

August 1, 2014

Faslane worker on Yes by Chris, a Faslane worker As a socialist, I have nothing to vote for when it comes to a general election. The choice is Tory or Labour, a Labour Party ...

‘To vote Yes is to play our part in the global struggle of working people. Just as in the UCS, our victory will be their victory’

August 1, 2014

by Tam Brotherston, UCS veteran and former John Brown’s shop steward Before presenting my point of view as a veteran of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders struggle let me make ...

Think big and vote Yes!

August 1, 2014

by Colin Fox, SSP co-spokesperson With six weeks to go until the referendum the Yes side still has it all to do. The opinion polls suggest the gap between the two sides has ...

Why Scotland must vote Yes – the case for women

August 1, 2014

by Pam Currie “Oh, I don’t know what to think…” … “What if…” … “We’ll never manage it…” Sound familiar? It does to me. In recent months ...

Oppose the nuclear waste sea move plan

August 1, 2014

by John Finnie MSP In 2006 George Monbiot wrote a fascinating article on Dounreay, the Nuclear Power Plant near Thurso in Caithness. He states, “In 1954 the nuclear ...

21st century Britain is glaringly unjust and getting worse

August 1, 2014

by Jonathon Shafi The UK is now so far down the path of privatisation and austerity, that deviating from it will take a movement on the scale of the Chartists to turn back ...

It’s people’s power versus London elites in indy battle

July 5, 2014

by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Despite the two year long negative scare campaign run by the unionists in Better Together, as we pass midsummer and close on ...