"There's never been a better time to strike a light in the darkness, and use your vote to return a Scottish Socialist to the Scottish Parliament, rather than a hand-wringing 'realist' who tells you we must all share the pain.
Why must we? We didn't cause this crisis." Read more...
"New Labour, the SNP and the Tory/Liberal coalition made the choice to cut public services, cut pensions and cut benefit levels to pay for the crisis.
"The Scottish Socialist Party has a different approach. We are on your side, not the side of the rich and powerful. We have fought beside you to save you schools, to save your hospitals, to save your libraries and swimming pools." Read more...
The Scottish Socialist Party can reveal new figures that show how Scotland could avoid axing services, slashing jobs and cutting pay.
Our research – verified by accountants and economists – shows that by replacing the Council Tax with a new income-based Scottish Service Tax, with a sliding scale of payments based on income, the Scottish Government could raise an additional £1.5 billion a year. Read more...
Scottish Socialist Party manifesto 2011
"Blaming the bankers is not an adequate response. Socialists know that it is not individual greed but the very system itself that generates these disasters. Private corporations and banks will always put profit before people, otherwise they would not keep up with their competitors."
Our call is for a Scottish socialist republic, in which the people are sovereign, not some descendant of the house of Saxe-Coburg, and not the multinationals who like to squat on our shores till the government subsidies run out.
We will fight to become a nation, a beacon, of peace, not an exploited outpost of the dying British Empire.
