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10 June 2015
Coulson case collapses amid stench of hypocrisy
"Not every lie amounts to perjury": In a farcical outcome riddled with class bias, Andy Coulson - former editor of the defunct News of the World (NoW) tabloid - saw the perjury case against him collapse at the High Court in Edinburgh last week
18 March 2015
A parting of the ways with Solidarity
Scotland and the fight for socialism: Extracts of a statement from Socialist Party Scotland executive committee
One of the Generation Fightback stalls at the Hope Over Fear rally, photo GF
15 October 2014
'Political awakening' continues in Scotland
Over 10,000 participated in the Hope Over Fear pro-independence rally called by Tommy Sheridan in Glasgow's George Square on 12 October
23 September 2014
Scotland's referendum: A working-class revolt
The referendum has turned British politics upside down - even though the No vote won. The Yes campaign became a mass mobilisation of working-class communities: against austerity and rotten establishment politics, and for a positive future. This turning point raises key issues for socialists, writes Peter Taaffe.
19 September 2014
1.6 million vote Yes in a working class revolt against austerity
In the teeth of a ferocious campaign from the British capitalist establishment, the independence campaign in Scotland won the support of over 1.6 million people, overwhelmingly working class
15 September 2014
Tommy Sheridan on BBC's Sunday Politics
Tommy Sheridan on the BBC's Sunday Politics - Andrew Neil reduced to sneers.
10 September 2014
Scottish referendum: A mass revolt against austerity
The 6 September YouGov survey for the Sunday Times has sent shock waves through the capitalist political establishment in Britain
6 August 2014
Super-dooper: One statistic indicating economic recovery which Chancellor George Osborne isn't crowing about is the booming sales of super-yachts
9 July 2014
Coulson faces prosecution over Tommy Sheridan
Convicted phone hacker Andy Coulson now faces perjury charges after giving evidence that led to the jailing of Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan, also on a perjury charge, in December 2010, writes More in a future issue.
25 June 2014
Coulson conviction: Cameron must resign!
An 'apology' from David Cameron, is nowhere near enough. He is desperately trying to wriggle his way out of this latest stinking scandal: the now undisputed criminality of the man he appointed as his chief press officer. Cameron and his rotten government should resign immediately and a general election be called
24 June 2014
Coulson convicted: now overturn conviction of Tommy Sheridan
Andy Coulson and other News International figures gave 'evidence' during the trial of Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan for perjury that led to Tommy's conviction
18 June 2014
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition campaign reports
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) campaign in Yorkshire was a success before a single vote was cast
23 April 2014
Scotland: Capitalist 'Project Fear' backfiring?
The socialist case for independence: There is growing fear, horror would not be too strong a word, among the capitalist establishment in Britain at the possibility of a majority Yes vote on 18 September in the Scottish independence referendum
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
8 October 2013
Scotland anti-bedroom tax conference
"The bedroom tax is now a dead tax walking" commented Tommy Sheridan in opening Saturday's conference
14 January 2013
Attitude to the Labour Party and the Left
To many who experienced the past sectarian behaviour of the SWP combined with abstract propaganda - 'One solution, revolution!' - the seeming metamorphosis to a 'broad' approach in this decade was a revelation...
26 September 2012
Murdoch empire: a whole barrel of bad apples
The media regulator Ofcom have bizarrely concluded that BSkyB is a "fit and proper" company to hold a broadcasting licence, writes Jim McFarlane, Socialist Party Scotland.
29 August 2012
Third prosecution witness from Tommy Sheridan trial now charged
Bob Bird, former editor of the Scottish edition of the News of the World has been charged with perverting the course of justice during Tommy Sheridan's 2006 defamation case and data protection offences...
Tommy Sheridan in 2007
22 August 2012
Another News of the World perjury charge
Yet another ex-News of the World (NoW) journalist has been charged with having committed perjury during the 2010 trial of Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan, writes Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland.
17 August 2012
Second charge of perjury committed in Tommy Sheridan trial
Yet another ex-News of the World journalist has been charged with having committed perjury during the Tommy Sheridan trial in 2010
31 May 2012
Andy Coulson charged with lying
Tommy Sheridan conviction must be overturned: Labour MP Tom Watson commented: "The detention of Andy Coulson further highlights why Mr Sheridan’s conviction was unsound"
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