by Rosie Kane It was only six days. Less than a week of my life. But every one of the 144 hours I spent behind bars opened my eyes just a little bit wider. By the time I emerged on Thursday, my peepers must have looked like dinner plates. I knew that I would not […]
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Social Forum on Climate Change and Peak Oil
by Johanna Dind The Social Forum on Climate Change and Peak Oil which took place in Edinburgh over the weekend 18th / 19th October 2008 was a success on all counts. 150-200 of people came from all over the country to discuss and exchange ideas on three particular questions;what are the causes of climate change? […]
All Out On 20th August
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser A bit of working class history is being made in Scotland on Wednesday 20th August. For the first time ever, all three trade unions in all 32 Scottish local authorities are taking united strike action. The cause is a derisory pay offer from COSLA, the coalition of Labour, […]
The party that dared to tell the truth
The Scottish Socialist Party has faced the biggest possible test of any political party in Scottish history; what do you do when the most charismatic individual leader of the left in generations demands that the party lies and covers up in order to protect his squalid secret life. For people who believe in truth and […]
No secrets – no lies: The truth behind two turbulent years in the SSP
2004 Sun 30 Oct: The News of the World (NotW) runs a front page account, by Anvar Khan, of a visit to a sex club with an unnamed, married MSP. Two members of the SSP Executive Committee (EC), aware that the article refers to Tommy Sheridan, ask him to apologise and resign as convenor as […]
Boarding the SSP flight to Florence
Frances Curran, international convener of the SSP, explains why the SSP is participating in the European Social Forum – what we can get from it and what we can contribute. The idea of everybody and anybody who is involved in the “anti corporate” globalisation movement taking some time out to discuss with each other how […]