by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson Lord Smith’s recommendations announced today amount to very little. Despite the widespread appetite for change acknowledged by both sides following Septembers historic and far reaching independence referendum The Smith Commission has emerged from the darkness offering very little to satisfy that hunger. It’s fair to say the Independence movement […]
SSP Independence Alliance press release SOCIALISTS CALL FOR ‘INDEPENDENCE ALLIANCE’ IN GENERAL ELECTION Scottish Socialist Party national spokesman Colin Fox has written to SNP leader elect Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Green Party leader Patrick Harvie inviting them to support ‘Independence alliance’ candidates from the Yes campaign in next year’s Westminster General Election. […]
The first post-referendum conference of the Scottish Socialist Party which met last month in Edinburgh was an inspirational event. Reflecting the flood of new members which the SSP, like the other pro-Yes parties, has experienced, the event was some four times larger than its counterpart in 2013 with many of those present newly joined members. […]
Read the submission they tried to exclude. The Scottish Socialist Party was the only one of the six parties formally involved in the Independence Referendum NOT invited to join the bilateral talks convened by Lord Smith of Kelvin on the further powers that should now be devolved to Holyrood. Notwithstanding our formal exclusion the Scottish Socialist Party has today sent […]
by Sandra Webster By the Scottish Government’s own statistics, one in three people will be affected by mental ill-health over the course of their lifetime. Of course, not everyone will be severely affected – it is a spectrum disorder like many other conditions – but such a large number means that everyone knows someone who […]
Letter to Lord Smith on our exclusion from his Commission […]
The working class holds the key to the Referendum vote. And the outcome of the Referendum is key to the prospects of better lives for the working class majority population. So as 18 September looms, all of us who favour the democratic right to self government for the Scottish people, as opposed to Tory dictatorship […]
The Scottish Socialist Party is pleased to bring you our best-selling pamphlet “The Case For an Independent Socialist Scotland” as a free download. We welcome all to download, share and discuss our arguments against continuing Westminster rule under a neo-liberal warmongering British state elite and our unique vision for an independent socialist Scotland. […]