Richie Venton remembers lifelong peace activist, teacher and much-loved socialist Ron Mackay It is with profound sadness and sense of loss we have to announce the death of SSP member and good friend to many of us, Ron Mackay. Ron, aged 93, was a lifelong socialist and peace activist, and above all an inspiration to […]
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 […]
In today’s podcast (on the day Scotland saw an eclipse of the sun!): Allan Grogan, co-founder of Labour For Independence and now SSP, talking about how the SNP majority council through in Dundee is now letting down the majority working class yes voters; Ron Mackay on the increasing danger of nuclear war; Calum Martin on […]