To Provide for service users, to Protect workers and to Prevent another catastrophe: build a National Care Service for Scotland. […]
Crisis underlines need for a National Care Service – and a ‘New Normal’
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SNP & Tories Vote Down Collective Union Bargaining Rights for Care Workers
On the very same day (19 May) a new report on Scotland’s care homes described the crisis in care for older people as “the greatest failure of devolved government since the creation of the Scottish parliament”, SNP and Tory MSPs combined forces to defeat calls for collective bargaining rights for workers in the private care home sector. […]
Defend the Posties, Defend 6-Day Delivery, Defend 20,000 Jobs
Workers and trade unionists need to stand up with the CWU – stand by your posties. […]
SSP condemns IMF decision to block Venezuelan application for Coronavirus aid
By Bill Bonnar, SSP International Secretary The Scottish Socialist Party condemns the recent decision by the International Monetary Fund to block Venezuela’s application for an emergency aid package to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic. The World Health Organisation has declared that the Coronavirus pandemic is a ‘public health emergency of international importance which requires the union […]
The Place for Socialists is in a Truly Socialist Party
Forget Labour’s rightward journey – the place for socialists is in a truly socialist party. […]
Time for £12: Covid-19 Crisis Leaves Millions Without Income on Day of Minimum Wage Rise
Urgent action is needed if the most vulnerable workers are not to have the virus of destitution added to that of Covid-19. And when this emergency is finally over a minimum wage of £12/hour [set at 2/3rds of male median earning] will be more necessary than ever to help those most in need. […]
Only Democracy Can Save Our Ecology
Through democratic public ownership of our land we could improve the lives of millions and significantly contribute to ending the ever important climate emergency at the same time. Democracy and ecology go hand in hand, without one you can’t have the other. This policy embodies these principles of the SSP and offers a realistic solution that works towards the SSP’s vision of an independent, sustainable, socialist Scotland. […]
Covid-19 crisis opens window on the multi-dimensional guilt of neoliberalism
By Ken Ferguson A spectre certainly is haunting the planet with the rapidly escalating Covid-19 crisis, with countries in lockdown, pillars of today’s supposedly free market utopia such as airlines seeking state aid and emerging divisions now in public view on the way ahead. As I write the quasi eugenics of “herd immunity” which potentially […]