2020 is over, but there is still a lot of hard work yet to come. So we’re rolling up our sleeves and making New Year 2021 not just a time of transition, but the start of real change. […]
New Year 2021: “Roll Up Your Sleeves!”
Colin Fox
A Reflection On The 5 Years Since IndyRef
Colin Fox, SSP National Co-Spokesperson, reflects on the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum and what the independence campaign has accomplished in the five years following it: I bumped into Alastair Darling [‘Better Together’] recently while parking the SSP van near Waverley station. ‘It’s called Vantonio Gramsci’ I informed the bemused former Marxist who now sits in […]
Edinburgh Sick Kids Opening Delayed in Further PFI Chaos
Commenting on news that the Edinburgh Sick Kids hospital is to be delayed for a further year, SSP National Co-Spokesperson Colin Fox said: “Todays news that Edinburgh’s new Sick Kids hospital will not open for at least another year has stunned the city. The £150million facility built by the private company Integrated Health Solutions Lothians […]
Socialist MSPs make a profound difference
by Colin Fox The Scottish Parliament is 18 years old today. And what promise it had. Some of it squandered, and some made clear gains for working class people. The Scottish Socialist Party can speak from experience as Scotland’s most electorally successful left wing organisation. We had MSPs representing working class Scots in the Parliament […]
Indyref2 strategy was based on “Wrong Issue, Wrong Time”
Responding to the First Minister’s statement today, retreating from her previous timetable for indyref2, Scottish Socialist Party joint national spokesperson Colin Fox said: “Behind the First Minister’s much-anticipated climbdown over indyref2 is an acceptance of the Scottish Socialist Party’s warning that the strategy she announced on March 13th was a serious error of judgement. “We […]
Colin Fox: closing speech to the RISE Conference
Comrades, RISE is the most important left unity project Scotland has seen in a generation. Last weekend we reached another milestone in RISE’s development when we conducted simultaneous interventions into the Climate Change march in Edinburgh & the STUC Anti-Racism celebrations in Glasgow. Whilst the weather was foul the fact RISE was actively involved in […]
GOVERNMENTS IN LONDON AND HOLYROOD MUST PROTECT SCOTLAND’S STEEL INDUSTRY
The last remaining Scottish steel plants in Motherwell and Cambuslang threatened with closure by Tata should be taken into public ownership to protect jobs, communities and Scotland’s industrial base – SSP national spokesman Colin Fox said today. Fox who was brought up in Motherwell and whose family worked in the steel industry for decades said: […]
The G8 Gleneagles Summit: 10 years on
The eyes of the world were on Scotland. Over 225,000 protesters came to Edinburgh to promote the ‘Make Poverty History’ (MPH) campaign’s demands. Organised by the various churches, aid charities and NGO’s it aimed to put pressure on Gordon Brown and the G8 Finance Ministers to write off billions of uncollectable Third World debt. On the same […]