This letter was prompted by an interview by Samantha Cameron in The Mail on Sunday, and printed in The National on April 9 DEAR Sam Cam, I don’t usually read the Mail but I was compelled to read your interview. Just to say I did not pay for it. You try to portray a tale […]
It was Easter Monday. As I drove to work, the car radio announced the next programme, ‘Wake up to Money’. Aye, right, is that what they call £7.13 an hour, at this hour of the day, on a public holiday? At least many of my workmates get double time for working a public holiday, but […]
On Scotlands most listened to socialist podcast, SSP Glasgow East candidate Liam McLaughlan on his election campaign, Singer song writer, Joe Solo on his support for the miners and the mining communities, Jenni Gunn on remembering the conscientious objectors, SSP co-spokesperson, Sandra Webster on the One in Five campaign, Beinn Irbhinn on the language of […]
by Allan Grogan Welcome to the year 2030, It’s another election year, Scotland has became independent thanks to a 2015 minority Conservative Government enforcing a decimation of public services, backed up by Ulster Unionists, UKIP and New Labourites, happy to be anywhere but under Ed Miliband’s leadership. 2017 saw the EU referendum, which killed off […]
by Sandra Webster After the referendum, the SSP – like other parties of the ‘Yes’ campaign – had a huge surge in applications for membership. We can now begin to rebuild our party and offer an alternative socialist agenda to that of other parties. Scotland has changed and demands a different kind of politics. We […]
You could be forgiven for forgetting that the working class make up the vast majority of the population, judging by how our interests and aspirations are ignored or trampled on by politicians representing the tiny minority who have grabbed most of the country’s wealth – the 1%. Then the election looms, so mainstream politicians who […]
In today’s podcast (on the day Scotland saw an eclipse of the sun!): Allan Grogan, co-founder of Labour For Independence and now SSP, talking about how the SNP majority council through in Dundee is now letting down the majority working class yes voters; Ron Mackay on the increasing danger of nuclear war; Calum Martin on […]
by Jim McVicar, Scottish Socialist Party National Treasurer The General Election takes place on 7 May this year and will give the people of Scotland an opportunity to let David Cameron and his unelected Tory/Lib Dem coalition government know exactly what the people of Scotland think of them. After the very positive campaign during the […]