Scottish Socialist Party
Scotland: Socialists discuss building a 'better left'
The Scottish Socialist Party's Colin Fox marching in the Edinburgh May Day, 2013.
Click HERE for more on Scotland.
June 17, 2013 -- Frontline, an independent Marxist magazine is Scotland, hosted a meeting recently which brought together socialists from different backgrounds to look at the question of building left unity in Scotland. In the first article below Frontline editor Alister Black reflects on the challenges ahead. Below are also articles from sections of the Scottish left that discuss the prospects for a better left in Scotland.
* * *
Scotland: Radical Independence Conference unites left
Europe: Greece, Spain, Portugal – the arc of resistance to austerity hardens
On September 25-26-27, 2012, up to 50,000 demonstrators tried to encircle the parliament, calling for the resignation of the government and d
Review: Tommy Sheridan bio 'essential reading'
Tommy Sheridan: From Hero To Zero? A Political Biography
By Gregor Gall
Britain: ‘To fight austerity we need a united left’ -- Anticapitalist Initiative
By Simon Hardy, Anticapitalist Initiative (Britain)
Scotland: Why socialists support independence
Scottish Socialist Party spokersperson Colin Fox addresses the Edinburgh rally for independence, September 22, 2012. Photograph By Craig Maclean.
By Colin Fox
September 20, 2012 -- Colin Fox's blog -- Tommy Docherty, the legendary wit and manager of Manchester United, once quipped after his team had suffered a humiliating defeat, "We lost 4-0 and frankly we were lucky to get the nil." The Tories [Conservative Party] in Scotland know just how he felt, for they are so hated that out of 56 MPs they have just one, and they were lucky to get that!
And yet, as incredible as it may seem, their coalition partners [in the British government] are despised even more. The Liberal Democrats now have no constituency members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) in mainland Scotland and were "mauled" in last year’s local elections for "joining" the hated Tories at Westminster.
Britain: Coalition government parties battered in local elections
Respect's Alyas Karmani defeated the Labour Party leader o
Scotland's left on independence referendum: For an 'anti-austerity yes vote'
Statements on the Scottish independence referendum by the Scottish Socialist Youth, the International Socialist Group (Scotland) and the Scottish Greens.
By Andy Bowden
January 10, 2012 -- Scottish Socialist Youth -- After almost a year since the Scottish National Party’s landslide victory we have a date – autumn 2014 for the most important referendum in Scottish history, on whether or not we stay in a union [the United Kingom] dominated by the right wing, a state that invaded Iraq, imposes nuclear weapons on the Clyde, destroyed Scotland’s industrial base, or whether we become an independent nation with the power to fundamentally change Scotland for the better and which reflects the left of centre political terrain instead of being dominated by the Tory home counties.
