The Scottish Socialist Party is a modern, fresh, forward-looking party which dares to be different.
We despise the culture of greed, corruption and egomania which infests traditional politics. And we reject the stale, bland conformism of the mainstream parties. Their time has come and gone.
The SSP is an anti-capitalist, pro-independence party, with a vision of socialism that is geared to the future rather than rooted in the past.
Our mission is to transform Scotland into an international symbol of equality, peace, justice and freedom.
We don’t pretend we can achieve that overnight. We’re here for the long haul. And we want your help.
We don’t expect you to agree with everything – only a party of zombies could ever be 100 per cent united. But if you broadly support our goal of a socialist Scotland, then we’d love to hear from you. Contact us here...
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Jo Harvie
"Something has fundamentally changed. Scottish Labour no longer holds exclusive rights to the votes of working class Scotland. People have had a lick of a different ice cream cone, and found it doesn’t taste of puppy dog tails." Read more here...
John McAllion
"It is becoming increasingly clear that Salmond is looking for enough wriggle room to allow him to manipulate the referendum process in line with his own gradualist vision of how Scottish independence will come about. Here lies real cause for concern." Read more here...
Ken Ferguson
"It is a certainty that the backers of the imperialist British state will use every gambit in their book of dirty tricks in the period ahead to scare the Scots back to the Union Jack.
Unfortunately some of these forces will be those hopelessly muddled “internationalists” on the British left." Read more here...
Roz Paterson
" An independent Scotland could also close the nuclear submarine base at Faslane and see to the decommissioning of our ailing – that is, all –nuclear power stations, whose contribution to our net energy production could be made up through a combination of further investment in renewable resources and dramatically increased energy efficiency." Read more here...
SSP campaign in the Highlands and Islands
by Pam Currie, 11-05-2011
The Highlands and Islands is one of the largest and most sparsely populated seats in Western Europe – and for nearly 150 years, it was a stronghold of Scottish Liberalism, returning Liberal parliamentarians from Shetland in the north to Argyll, hundreds of miles to the south.
Well, it’s still vast, but it’s a long, long way between Lib Dems in the Highlands now.
The SSP’s vote was low in this area – there’s no denying that. Our 509 votes are perhaps not much to show for several weeks campaigning, but they are not the whole story.
SSP members travelled from Campbeltown to Portmahanock and from Rothesay to Ullapool, talking to voters, distributing leaflets and debating at hustings.
And our efforts got a response. From kids on bikes in Invergarry telling us “we don’t get many leaflets through our doors here” to travelling to the Island of Islay for hustings, the SSP’s vision of an independent socialist Scotland chimed with voters across the region.
While the SNP juggernaut rolled through the Highlands, sweeping aside the traditionally dominant Lib Dems, the SSP won support on our ideas on abolishing the council tax, building affordable social housing and community and public ownership of renewable energy sources.
Our ideas don’t just apply to the towns and cities of the Central Belt, they apply to rural communities across Scotland. We didn’t get a big vote this time, but we got a big response. And we’ll be back!
