by Scott Macdonald As well as being an international remembrance and of celebration of workers interests – shielding the flame and refueling the fire of international worker solidarity, the May Day weekend has long been a political fulcrum. Just over 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx, a hundred years since the Red Clydesiders […]
As proud participants in the pro-independence coalition of forces, the Scottish Socialist Party will be proud to march alongside the wider Yes family, to bring our politics and our distinct socialist message to the movement and to the wider public. The march will start at Kelvingrove Park and finish at Glasgow Green. Leave at 1.30pm […]
Following the SNP conference decision to back the Growth Commission’s economic proposals, the Scottish Socialist Party has written to those in the Yes movement opposed to its conclusions suggesting they get together and present a progressive alternative to the ‘bankers driven austerity’ inherent in this SNP vision of independence. The appeal by the SSP’s joint […]
SSP members will tomorrow (Saturday 27th) take the case against the austerity based Growth Commission to SNP delegates gathering for their Edinburgh conference. Activists will leaflet the event warning that far from providing a winning basis for a future Yes vote the proposal “undermines the interests of working class Scots” SSP national co-spokesperson Colin Fox […]
The Scottish Socialist Party is committed to independence and has been for 20 years. Like other YES supporters disappointed by the 2014 result we believe our case needs improvement if it is to secure majority support. Whilst the Sustainable Growth Commission’s attempt to address why we lost is welcome, it unfortunately draws all the wrong […]
Responding to a BBC interview defending the policies set out in the Sustainable Growth Commission by its author Andrew Wilson SSP national co-spokesman Colin Fox said: “Whilst it is true that the Yes movement has spent too little time reflecting on, and learning why, we lost the 2014 referendum, it is also true the conclusions […]
It’s been said that ‘Brexit’ is the biggest crisis the British ruling class has faced since Suez. Ironically, that was also about the diminishing of Britain’s power in the world. Britain, the former colonial superpower in the Middle East – which had liberated North Africa from the Nazis in 1956 – was ignominiously outmanoeuvred by […]
by Colin Fox I spoke on behalf of the Scottish Socialist Party at a public meeting hosted by the Communication Workers Union in Inverness last week. The St Andrews Day event on ‘Brexit, Independence and Workers Rights’ heard me remind people November 30th is also the anniversary of John Maclean’s birth. I pointed out that […]