For people and for planet, Scotland needs real change
Editorial by Ken Ferguson If we are to believe the media pundits, Scottish politics is about to be a battle between a leftward moving Scottish Labour squaring up to take on ...
Zero Hours Contracts
‘We can’t give up on Zero Hours Contracts just because the Tories have a majority’
Richie Venton spoke to Alan Milne, Scottish Organiser of the Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) on current events and campaigns What’s been happening lately on ...
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, ...
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 ...
Poetry and the SSP
by Alan Gay It is astonishing how most of us accept the suffering caused by the huge economic divisions in our society—£6.50 an hour and zero hours contracts existing ...
Recovery: what recovery?
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser If you believe George Osborne, David Cameron and a chunk of the media, workers are back in the land of milk and honey. ...
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 ...
Fat Cat Tuesday: who says £10-an-hour is unrealistic?
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Next time somebody says that the SSP’s campaign for a £10 an hour national minimum wage is unrealistic, or would damage ...
Show zero-hours contracts the red card
by Calum Martin, Edinburgh South and Midlothian SSP The start of the New Year: a time of consideration of resolutions for the year ahead. Amidst the crisp weather of the New ...
£10 NOW! For a Scottish minimum wage to outlaw poverty pay
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser Poverty scars the face of Scotland. Poverty pay is at the heart of it. And the only thing more ugly than the national ...
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