by Scott Macdonald There were 1,187 Scottish drug-related deaths in 2018 – a grisly rise of 27% over 2017’s figures. It is the highest since records began in 1996. Since the 2008 financial crisis the number of drug-related deaths has doubled. The data breakdown is a depressing read. Opiates – heroin, methadone and some prescribed […]
By Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser As young school students staged a strike rally in Glasgow’s George Square against climate change, people of the older generation showed their anger outside the Pacific Quay BBC building at robbery of free TV licences from the over-75s. They were part of UK-wide protests at the BBC announcement […]
by Hugh Cullen Scottish Socialist Party branches and members took to bus, ferry, train, tram and subway stations on Saturday 15th June, campaigning for Free Public Transport as part of a national day of action. This policy is not a new one for the SSP, having repeatedly raised it as part of our plans for […]
by Colin Fox The European elections in Britain were held in absurd circumstances and the results reflected it vividly. Three years after voting to leave the EU, Britain was compelled to send 73 MEPs for another five! The election was a rerun of the 2016 Referendum, only more polarised and bitter. Parties with a hard […]
by Scott Macdonald As well as being an international remembrance and of celebration of workers interests – shielding the flame and refueling the fire of international worker solidarity, the May Day weekend has long been a political fulcrum. Just over 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx, a hundred years since the Red Clydesiders […]
by Colin Fox So now Brexit is set for October 31st. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit impasse just runs on, and on, and on. With the second ‘deadline’, April 12th, for leaving the EU having expired anti-climatically without fanfare, just as March 29th did before it, Britain now faces the farcical prospect of contesting elections […]
Responding to a BBC interview defending the policies set out in the Sustainable Growth Commission by its author Andrew Wilson SSP national co-spokesman Colin Fox said: “Whilst it is true that the Yes movement has spent too little time reflecting on, and learning why, we lost the 2014 referendum, it is also true the conclusions […]
The National Minimum Wage goes up by 38p on Monday April 1st from £7.83/per hour to £8.21 thanks to the Scottish Socialist Party and campaigners like us. The SSP marked this over the weekend by taking campaigns onto the streets with stalls in both Glasgow and Edinburgh. Speaking at a street stall in Glasgow, SSP […]