by Ken Ferguson The recent general election which reduced the Tories to a minority government and put UK Labour some fifty seats behind them has caused shock waves across politics not least in the movement for Scottish Independence. Recent weeks have displayed a range of infighting, name calling, political confusion, bile and in some cases […]
The SNP today launched a conservative manifesto aimed at Conservative Scotland. said SSP national spokesperson Colin Fox reacting to its launch in Perth “Their 48-page document delayed a week by the tragic events in Manchester, entitled ‘Stronger For Scotland’ at least answers the oft asked question ‘What Scotland do you mean?’. For it offers little […]
Join with Scotland’s already-existing socialist party by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The SSP welcomes the massive boost to public debate around left-wing, anti-austerity, anti-war, socialist ideas that Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership challenge and current re-election campaign has triggered. We welcome the emergence of those new activists motivated to defend Jeremy from the vitriolic attacks […]
by Jenni Gunn The political, economic and social position of women in Scotland in 2016 is markedly different from the way in which it looked for my mother’s generation. The political landscape, in particular, demonstrates a marked departure from what political power looked like when my mum was growing up. The three main party leaders in […]
by Colin Fox A shocking analysis from the TUC – using data from from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has found that workers in Britain, virtually alone across 35 OECD nations, have seen average wages plunge in value since 2007. Only workers in the crisis hit economies of Greece and Portugal have also […]
by Colin Fox, joint national spokesperson. “The vote by Labour’s NEC to ensure Jeremy Corbyn automatically appears on the forthcoming leadership challenge as the incumbent represents an embarrassing defeat for the 170+ MP’s who had tried to oust him. But it is clear the bitterness of the past three weeks will not disappear – it […]
The “astonishing” election of Jeremy Corbyn as UK Labour leader won’t resolve the existential crisis gripping the right wing Scottish Labour Party said SSP national spokesman Colin Fox today. Reacting to the news that Jeremy Corbyn had won Labour’s leadership election Colin Fox said: “This astonishing result has confounded the Labour establishment and represents humiliation […]
John McAllion assesses Scottish Labour’s fall Labour’s cataclysmic electoral defeat has sparked the resignation of its losing leaders north and south of the border, the simultaneous launch of electoral contests to select their replacements and a tidal wave of anguished soul searching over what can be done to save a political party that not so […]