Socialist Resistance supports independence for Scotland. Here we republish an article by Andy Bowden from Scottish Socialist Youth on how socialists in Scotland will be campaigning. After almost a year since the SNP’s landslide victory we have a date – [...]
Voters in the 2011 Holyrood election Scotland swung from parties right across the political spectrum to the Scottish National Party (SNP) to give them a majority in the next Scottish parliament. The primary reason was that they saw as large [...]
Tommy Sheridan’s conviction today for perjury was inevitable. Six years ago, as leader of the Scottish Socialist Party, he proposed to sue a tabloid newspaper over stories he knew to be true and demanded that our party went along with [...]
After a week in which George Galloway said he was under pressure to stand in next year’s elections for the Scottish Parliament, Respect’s annual conference on November 13 voted, 59 to 15, to organise in Scotland. That resolution, published below, [...]
The fiery speeches at the TUC congress in Manchester dominated the media headlines. People at work talked about the prospect of widespread strikes. Women at the school gates picking up primary kids commented “we’re all going to be out on [...]
Did you hear the one about the election everyone lost? On May 6, 2010, Labour the party in power lost 100 seats and with it the chance to continue in government after 13 years. The Conservatives lost the victory all [...]
After much anticipation and preparation, Saturday was the day of the English Scottish Defence League’s second outing. They had first appeared in Glasgow last November, with a generous estimate of 80 turning up to find themselves outnumbered by about 50 [...]
Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January, 9.30am outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court Help us fight the move to criminalise the boycott of Israel. The same British authorities who support the siege of Gaza are working to stifle Israel’s critics here. [...]
Cuts: that’s what all the major parties – Labour, SNP, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats – are arguing about. But not if there is an alternative to the cuts but who would be the best at making the cuts. But let’s [...]
This year the Scottish Socialist Party annual conference was in a village hall on the sunny, bright but breezy island of Arran for the last week end in March. One of the most important debates was considering, once more, the [...]
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