by Richie Venton The councillors of Scotland are poised to vote YES to another bout of municipal butchery. Council budgets are about to be set across the country, for the next 1-3 years. The common thread in all 32 council areas is cuts: cuts to jobs, cuts to vital services, cuts to the conditions of […]
A special one-off SSP podcast: on the night that Syriza, the radical anti-capitalist party in Greece win at the polls, SSP activist Tommy Ball explains the implications this will have across Europe and Colin Fox reports from the celebrations on the ground in Athens! […]
Welcome to the SSP podcast – a bit of an experiment for us. On the show: why the Scottish Socialist Party will never demonise immigrants, Alan Wyllie on our reasoning for backing and campaigning for a £10 an hour Living Wage, co-spokesperson Sandra Webster on the upcoming cuts. It also features a report from Greece […]
With thanks to our good friends at Independence Live – an interview with Colin Fox, on the pre-election political and social situation in austerity-hammered Greece. […]
With just three days to go until the Greek General Election Athens is buzzing. The stage is literally set for Syriza’s final election rally tonight in Omonia Square in the centre of the city. […]
Next week the Scottish Socialist Party will announce the seats we will contest in May’s General Election. Each of our candidates will be standing on an unashamedly socialist and pro-working class platform. We will be campaigning for a £10/hour living wage and an end to zero hour contracts, an end to the austerity that see […]
As we leave 2014 behind and enter 2015 we find the political map of Scotland dotted with question marks. What has been the lasting legacy of that amazing referendum campaign? Who stands to benefit most in this year’s General Election? Will the SNP maintain poll ratings of 40% plus and hold on to 100,000 members […]
SCOTTISH SOCIALISTS TO STAND GENERAL ELECTION CANDIDATES IN MAY Meeting in Glasgow at the weekend the executive committee of the Scottish Socialist Party unanimously agreed to commence the process of selecting candidates for next May’s general election. […]