We’re taking a week out from charting the history of class struggle and organising in Britain to discuss Chile around the same period (1960s-1970s). The Chilean people have a proud record of resistance and solidarity in a dramatic history that has seen socialist governments/organisations and counter-revolutionary/military forces battle it out for decades. We will be […]
Glasgow comrades will also be part of Govanhill International Festival, a community-led celebration, combating division and racism. The march meets at Govanhill Park on the 18th at 12.00. […]
by Billy Flanagan By 2009, I found myself taking an interest in politics and what the various parties stand for. As Labour have always enjoyed masquerading themselves as the “party of the people” on the day of the General Election of 2010, I found myself voting Labour (for the last time). I saw them as […]
by Stevie Anderson 728 people in Scotland killed themselves in 2016. Our national consumption of anti-depressant medication has doubled in the last 10 years. In the UK 3 in 4 have felt overwhelmed by stress within the last year – 1 in 6 has considered suicide when feeling this way. On a global scale, according […]
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 […]
by John McAllion Scottish Labour’s Campaign for Socialism is Jeremy Corbyn’s and Momentum’s voice in Scotland. Their analysis of their own party’s general election performance is that, by comparison with Labour across the rest of GB, Labour in Scotland “held back the UK effort”, “failed to deliver” and “looked more like Jim Murphy’s Labour Party […]
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 […]
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 […]