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7 September 2006
New socialist party launched in Scotland
SOLIDARITY - SCOTLAND'S Socialist Movement (SSM) was launched at a packed to capacity rally on Sunday 3 September in Glasgow. Every seat was taken and more people crammed into the side entrances to listen and catch a glimpse of the speakers, writes Philip Stott, International Socialists, (CWI Scotland).
10 August 2006
Tommy Sheridan's victory over News of the World
TOMMY SHERIDAN has won his libel action against the News of the World (NoW) and Rupert Murdoch's media empire. It is a victory not only for Tommy Sheridan, but for socialists and the left internationally over one of the most most reactionary, anti-working class news organisations in the world, writes Sinead Daley, SSP executive member and CWI.
20 July 2006
Serious crisis for Scottish Socialist Party
Tommy Sheridan court case: THE PRESS in Scotland have dubbed it the libel trial of the decade. A case that has already resulted in saturation coverage in the Scottish media. Tommy Sheridan, Scottish Socialist Party MSP and former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party versus the News of the World. Philip Stott, International Socialists, reports.
6 July 2006
Royal Mail - turn anger into action
AT THE recent Communication Workers' Union (CWU) conference an emergency motion was unanimously agreed that the union should take Royal Mail on over a number of issues, around the future of our industry, writes Gary Clark, CWU Scotland No 2 branch, vice-chair.
1 June 2006
Crisis in the Scottish Socialist Party
THE SCOTTISH Socialist Party (SSP) has been rocked by the release of an open letter by Tommy Sheridan to SSP members which accuses "an unsavoury cabal of comrades at the core of the leadership who are more interested in pursuing personal vendettas, through vile lies and slander, than conducting the class struggle", writes Philip Stott, International Socialists, (CWI Scotland).
25 May 2006
Postal workers call for action
POSTAL WORKERS have delivered a thumping rejection to Royal Mail's plans to impose a 2.9% pay offer and to implement backdoor privatisation of the Post Office...
6 April 2006
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Scotland: one million-strong strike for pension rights |
16 February 2006
Labour's pro-business policies are punished
THE DUNFERMLINE and West Fife by-election on 9 February was a major defeat for New Labour. The Liberal-Democrats overturned an 11,000 Labour majority in a solidly working-class constituency - with a big ex-mining community that...
2 February 2006
Post Office: National action needed to defend jobs
R0YAL MAIL claim to have gone from a crisis with record losses to a miracle turnaround almost overnight. The opening up of the markets, along with 'downstream access' (where other postal operators can put mail in the postal...
6 October 2005
Scottish by-elections: Workers reject political establishment
THE SCOTTISH Socialist Party (SSP) contested two by-elections last week. In the Glasgow Cathcart Scottish parliament election CWI member Ronnie Stevenson...
22 September 2005
JANICE GODRICH, president of the civil service union PCS, recently spoke to the socialist about the major issues facing her union...
30 June 2005
The struggle for socialism in Scotland
Sinead Daly from International Socialists and a member of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) executive committee looks at the programme and evolution of the SSP...
12 May 2005
Rebuilding SSP support under a third Labour term
Scotland - general election 2005: IN SCOTLAND, the opposition to New Labour policies was underlined by a 4.5% fall in their vote to 39.5% compared to the election of 2001...
28 April 2005
Standing for socialism in Scotland
A SURVEY of public opinion in Scotland carried out at the start of the election campaign found that 79% of people believed that wealth should be redistributed in society...
26 February 2005
Scottish Socialist Party conference report
PHILIP STOTT of International Socialists (CWI Scotland) continues his report of the 2005 Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) conference which took place on 12 and 13 February...
19 February 2005
G8 summit Gleneagles: protest against world poverty
THE G8 (Group of Eight), who are holding a summit in Gleneagles in Scotland this July, brings together the leaders of eight of the world's richest nations: USA, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada a...
19 February 2005
Political questioning at SSP conference
THE 2005 Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) conference was held last weekend, following Tommy Sheridan's resignation as party leader in November 2004...
12 February 2005
Scottish Socialist Party: Clear socialist alternative needed
THE SCOTTISH Socialist Party (SSP) conference meets this weekend in the aftermath of Tommy Sheridan's resignation as SSP convener...
27 November 2004
Tommy Sheridan resigns as SSP convenor
SCOTTISH SOCIALIST Party (SSP) members were stunned to learn of the resignation of Tommy Sheridan as national convenor of the party on Wednesday 10 November...
18 September 2004
THE CONTROVERSIAL Tolerance Zones (Scotland) Bill and the British government's consultation document on prostitution, Paying the Price, have sparked a real debate about how to deal with the issue of prostitution...
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