“The theme Make Caring Visible is a good one, and I hope this time it will be more than a one week wonder.” […]
Carer’s Week 2020: Make Caring Visible
Opinion
Past Time For Change: why I joined the SSP
by Billy Flanagan By 2009, I found myself taking an interest in politics and what the various parties stand for. As Labour have always enjoyed masquerading themselves as the “party of the people” on the day of the General Election of 2010, I found myself voting Labour (for the last time). I saw them as […]
All that is solid melts into medication
by Stevie Anderson 728 people in Scotland killed themselves in 2016. Our national consumption of anti-depressant medication has doubled in the last 10 years. In the UK 3 in 4 have felt overwhelmed by stress within the last year – 1 in 6 has considered suicide when feeling this way. On a global scale, according […]
Respect Vulnerable People
by Natalie Reid Every August, Edinburgh hosts one of most well known festivals in the world. The streets are swollen with people, and pop up bars, and shows. But the harder you look, the more it all seems to blend into one; masses of overpriced comedy shows, expensive gin bars, all catering to a now […]
Remembering Romero – America’s undead maestro
by Scott Macdonald Fans of American pulp horror cinema mourn the loss of George A Romero, leaving us after 78 years after a mercifully brief battle with lung cancer. In his early years, Romero went to Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh and stayed there after he graduated, making shorts and TV documentaries, scraping together the cash […]
Radical class-based demands are at the heart of Indyref2
by Liam McLaughlan British politics is in period of almost unparalleled self-inflicted chaos and confusion. A zombie Tory-led government – devoid of any credibility – staggers on. They march to the tune of the lambeg and flute of Arlene Foster’s DUP, the empty nothings of Theresa May and the Tory hard Brexit negotiations underway. For […]
Social care must be a right for all
by Natalie Reid It’s no secret that social care funding is in crisis, in Scotland and across the UK as a whole. Inevitably, this has led to inequality in social care provision, meaning only those who can afford it can be guaranteed the high standards of care we all deserve; whether it’s later in life […]
Not Them and Us – There is only Us
by Sandra Webster The recent snap general election announcement is not a surprise. Our joint national spokesperson Colin Fox warned us to be prepared. However with the local elections – we can truly demonstrate that communities are the Scottish Socialist Party’s life blood. One of my first activities on joining the SSP was at the Tory […]