Following the resignation of Richard Leonard as Scottish Labour leader, Colin Fox has reiterated the need of for an avowedly socialist party. […]
Scotland’s socialists need a socialist party
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Labour today is no place for socialists – and never has been
Those on Labour’s Right who conspired against Corbyn have triumphed. And they plan to erase all reference to the Corbyn era from Labour’s history. They blame Corbyn for their worst defeat in a century and deny any responsibility for the debilitating civil war they waged over the past five years. […]
Where now for Scottish Labour?
by John McAllion Since 1918 Labour has fought 28 UK general elections in Scotland. Across the first 25 of those elections, Labour took on average just over half of the seats and 40 per cent of the votes cast. As late as the 2010 general election, Labour was winning 41 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster seats […]
EU ‘mauling’ for Tories and Labour further polarises Brexit
by Colin Fox The European elections in Britain were held in absurd circumstances and the results reflected it vividly. Three years after voting to leave the EU, Britain was compelled to send 73 MEPs for another five! The election was a rerun of the 2016 Referendum, only more polarised and bitter. Parties with a hard […]
Birmingham Bin Strike: An acid test for Labour
by Richie Venton In an important victory for all workers fighting austerity, the High Court has ruled (on 20 September) in favour of Unite the union and ordered Birmingham Labour city council to withdraw the compulsory redundancy notices they’d issued to 113 safety critical refuse collection workers. As part of the legal ruling, the union […]
Corbyn election won’t resolve Scottish Labour crisis
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 […]
What do you really stand for?
by Allan Grogan Welcome to the year 2030, It’s another election year, Scotland has became independent thanks to a 2015 minority Conservative Government enforcing a decimation of public services, backed up by Ulster Unionists, UKIP and New Labourites, happy to be anywhere but under Ed Miliband’s leadership. 2017 saw the EU referendum, which killed off […]
Aiming to be Scotland’s socialist party
by Sandra Webster After the referendum, the SSP – like other parties of the ‘Yes’ campaign – had a huge surge in applications for membership. We can now begin to rebuild our party and offer an alternative socialist agenda to that of other parties. Scotland has changed and demands a different kind of politics. We […]