In today’s podcast: land reform from Russia, Colin Fox on UKIP and the SSP’s new pamphlet on the right wing party, Lewis Akers on pay discrimination, The SNP’s Debra Torrance on an Arbrothians Smokie Radical Party; Jenni Gunn on mental health and Calum Martin continues his series on lefty history with a piece on the […]
by Ken Ferguson, Voice editor, and Christine McVicar, distribution organiser The Scottish Socialist Voice is the only socialist paper written, published and printed in Scotland and has, since 1996, both reported the news and played a significant role in mobilising activity in struggles such as the anti-war movement, the Yes campaign and the ongoing anti-austerity […]
by Richie Venton There’s a gut-wrenching stink of corruption arising from the body of capitalism right now. The world’s second-biggest bank, HSBC, has hit the headlines for providing a tax-dodging service to some of the world’s biggest corporations, richest capitalists, and most corrupt crooks. The public, and public services, have been deprived of £billions in […]
In this weeks SSP Podcast we have some history from Katie Bonnar and Calum Martin – Calum starts a weekly series on a history of the left called “Making the flag Red; Struggle and Democracy Through History.” Cat Boyd from the ISG will be giving her view on left unity and in particular on the […]
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And what a happy grabbag we have for you this week! On this week’s show, we have members from Glasgow Central branch on zero-hours contracts, wages in the NHS and Don McKeen with an invite to what sounds like a really interesting talk at the Yes Bar. We also have Jenni Gunn speaking about everyday […]
Earlier today, we were proud to stand side-by-side with fellow anti-cuts fighters, including Women For Independence at the Council HQ in Dumbarton to protest at the brutal cuts to public services and jobs being implemented by a Labour Council on behalf of a Tory Government in Westminster. Our West Dunbartonshire councillor Jim Bollan was present […]
We welcome the petition of Women For Independence on how the election campaign should be conducted. We will only be fielding a small number of candidates where local branches have made the decision to stand. As a party we are proud that we have a 50/50 Executive Committee and a male and female co-spokesperson and […]