After school safety concerns, SSP calls for rethink of workplace and health & safety practices – putting workers and Unions in control. […]
School Safety: U-turns highlight need for worker power
Coronavirus
“Profit Before Lives” Has Left us in Tiers
The failure to protect both public health and jobs will lead to a self-perpetuating downturn in both. Britain’s precarious economy of low-pay, low-security, hand-to-mouth living has left us with a country held up by lollipop sticks – and it is collapsing. […]
Scottish Gov Continues to Sideline Workers as School Plan Announced
By Hugh CullenSSP National Secretary and EIS Branch Secretary (speaking on behalf of the SSP) The Scottish Socialist Party shares the frustrations of the EIS and other teaching unions who have been sidelined by the Scottish Government throughout the lockdown. Union representatives have found consultations to be largely tokenistic with the government making repeated announcements […]
Media Release: Exposure of Care Home Scandal Boosts Case for National Care Service
BBC One’s “Disclosure” programme, “The Care Home Scandal”, has exposed the need for a publicly-owned National Care Service. […]
SSP Seeks Sturgeon’s Support for National Care Service
SSP co- spokespeople Róisín McLaren and Colin Fox have written to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon seeking her support for bringing Scotland’s care homes into an NHS style National Care Service. […]
SSP condemns IMF decision to block Venezuelan application for Coronavirus aid
By Bill Bonnar, SSP International Secretary The Scottish Socialist Party condemns the recent decision by the International Monetary Fund to block Venezuela’s application for an emergency aid package to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic. The World Health Organisation has declared that the Coronavirus pandemic is a ‘public health emergency of international importance which requires the union […]
Time for £12: Covid-19 Crisis Leaves Millions Without Income on Day of Minimum Wage Rise
Urgent action is needed if the most vulnerable workers are not to have the virus of destitution added to that of Covid-19. And when this emergency is finally over a minimum wage of £12/hour [set at 2/3rds of male median earning] will be more necessary than ever to help those most in need. […]
Covid-19 crisis opens window on the multi-dimensional guilt of neoliberalism
By Ken Ferguson A spectre certainly is haunting the planet with the rapidly escalating Covid-19 crisis, with countries in lockdown, pillars of today’s supposedly free market utopia such as airlines seeking state aid and emerging divisions now in public view on the way ahead. As I write the quasi eugenics of “herd immunity” which potentially […]