Scottish Socialist Party
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🟥🟨 For an Independent Socialist Scotland.
🟥🟨 For an Independent Socialist Scotland.
Compulsory redundancies at UWS will be a disaster for workers, communities, and learners.
We're standing with striking workers in the fight to save Higher Education in Scotland.
Richie Venton spoke with EIS-ULA branch secretary Katie Clark:
youtu.be/jRYuhz3mfNU
We're standing with striking workers in the fight to save Higher Education in Scotland.
Richie Venton spoke with EIS-ULA branch secretary Katie Clark:
youtu.be/jRYuhz3mfNU
Striking to save jobs and education at UWS
YouTube video by Scottish Socialist Party
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September 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Compulsory redundancies at UWS will be a disaster for workers, communities, and learners.
We're standing with striking workers in the fight to save Higher Education in Scotland.
Richie Venton spoke with EIS-ULA branch secretary Katie Clark:
youtu.be/jRYuhz3mfNU
We're standing with striking workers in the fight to save Higher Education in Scotland.
Richie Venton spoke with EIS-ULA branch secretary Katie Clark:
youtu.be/jRYuhz3mfNU
1/2 "Castlehill pays carers £13 per hour [...]
"Internal documents show it expects to make pre-tax profits of more than £90m in the next five years.
"It also projects the company will be worth more than £500m by 2027."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Internal documents show it expects to make pre-tax profits of more than £90m in the next five years.
"It also projects the company will be worth more than £500m by 2027."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Families accuse care home of 'neglect' and 'cruelty' after secret filming
A BBC Disclosure reporter saw vulnerable elderly people left sitting alone for hours in urine-soaked clothes.
www.bbc.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
1/2 "Castlehill pays carers £13 per hour [...]
"Internal documents show it expects to make pre-tax profits of more than £90m in the next five years.
"It also projects the company will be worth more than £500m by 2027."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Internal documents show it expects to make pre-tax profits of more than £90m in the next five years.
"It also projects the company will be worth more than £500m by 2027."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Your party is right here.
The Scottish Socialist Party is fighting for socialist change for Scotland's working class, and standing in the 2026 Holyrood elections.
scottishsocialistparty.org/your-party-i...
The Scottish Socialist Party is fighting for socialist change for Scotland's working class, and standing in the 2026 Holyrood elections.
scottishsocialistparty.org/your-party-i...
Your party is right here: The SSP is fighting for socialist change for Scotland's working class » Scottish Socialist Party
The SSP is preparing to stand candidates in all eight electoral regions in next year's Holyrood elections.
scottishsocialistparty.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Your party is right here.
The Scottish Socialist Party is fighting for socialist change for Scotland's working class, and standing in the 2026 Holyrood elections.
scottishsocialistparty.org/your-party-i...
The Scottish Socialist Party is fighting for socialist change for Scotland's working class, and standing in the 2026 Holyrood elections.
scottishsocialistparty.org/your-party-i...
🕛 Tonight, 6pm
📍 Room 709, Boyd Orr Building, University Ave., Glasgow
👇 All welcome; details below.
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📍 Room 709, Boyd Orr Building, University Ave., Glasgow
👇 All welcome; details below.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🕛 Tonight, 6pm
📍 Room 709, Boyd Orr Building, University Ave., Glasgow
👇 All welcome; details below.
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📍 Room 709, Boyd Orr Building, University Ave., Glasgow
👇 All welcome; details below.
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The UK government is complicit in the weaponised famine and mass killings perpetrated by Isaac Herzog's government in Palestine.
Instead of rolling out the red carpet for him and waging war on peaceful protestors, Labour must end its complicity in genocide.
Instead of rolling out the red carpet for him and waging war on peaceful protestors, Labour must end its complicity in genocide.
September 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The UK government is complicit in the weaponised famine and mass killings perpetrated by Isaac Herzog's government in Palestine.
Instead of rolling out the red carpet for him and waging war on peaceful protestors, Labour must end its complicity in genocide.
Instead of rolling out the red carpet for him and waging war on peaceful protestors, Labour must end its complicity in genocide.
Instead of career politicians lining their own pockets while imposing austerity on working-class people, let's elect socialist MSPs on a worker's wage.
September 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Instead of career politicians lining their own pockets while imposing austerity on working-class people, let's elect socialist MSPs on a worker's wage.
Corruption and self-enrichment in politics is a poison.
We need socialist MSPs on a worker's wage instead.
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We need socialist MSPs on a worker's wage instead.
socialistvoice.scot/subscriptions/
August 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Corruption and self-enrichment in politics is a poison.
We need socialist MSPs on a worker's wage instead.
socialistvoice.scot/subscriptions/
We need socialist MSPs on a worker's wage instead.
socialistvoice.scot/subscriptions/
From landlord Labour ministers to bottomless expense accounts to pocketing freebies from lobbyists - corruption and self-enrichment has poisoned democracy.
Instead, all SSP candidates pledge to live on the average worker’s wage only.
www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
Instead, all SSP candidates pledge to live on the average worker’s wage only.
www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
Richie Venton: Careerism and shameful self-interest are a poison in our politics
IF I had £1 for every time somebody told me “Politicians are all the bloody same, in it for themselves, in it for the money”, I’d be a…
www.thenational.scot
August 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
From landlord Labour ministers to bottomless expense accounts to pocketing freebies from lobbyists - corruption and self-enrichment has poisoned democracy.
Instead, all SSP candidates pledge to live on the average worker’s wage only.
www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
Instead, all SSP candidates pledge to live on the average worker’s wage only.
www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
⚠️ Trade Unions and socialists must urgently mobilise a real alternative to both the far-right and the broken status quo, based on working-class demands.
scottishsocialistparty.org/falkirk-show...
scottishsocialistparty.org/falkirk-show...
Falkirk shows that Trade Unions urgently need to mobilise around working-class demands » Scottish Socialist Party
Trade Unions and socialists must urgently mobilise a real alternative to the far-right and the status quo, based on working-class demands.
scottishsocialistparty.org
August 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
⚠️ Trade Unions and socialists must urgently mobilise a real alternative to both the far-right and the broken status quo, based on working-class demands.
scottishsocialistparty.org/falkirk-show...
scottishsocialistparty.org/falkirk-show...
🚨 Yes, it can happen here.
We must build the positive, working-class, socialist alternative in communities that have been ravaged by austerity, low-quality housing, and job losses - a genuine alternative to both the broken status quo and the billionaire-funded far-right.
We must build the positive, working-class, socialist alternative in communities that have been ravaged by austerity, low-quality housing, and job losses - a genuine alternative to both the broken status quo and the billionaire-funded far-right.
August 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🚨 Yes, it can happen here.
We must build the positive, working-class, socialist alternative in communities that have been ravaged by austerity, low-quality housing, and job losses - a genuine alternative to both the broken status quo and the billionaire-funded far-right.
We must build the positive, working-class, socialist alternative in communities that have been ravaged by austerity, low-quality housing, and job losses - a genuine alternative to both the broken status quo and the billionaire-funded far-right.
Keir Starmer and Labour have given Israel the weapons, intelligence, and political protection to illegally occupy Gaza - and murder Palestinians.
They tried to silence opposition to these crimes by attacking our basic democratic rights.
Their empty words are meaningless now.
They tried to silence opposition to these crimes by attacking our basic democratic rights.
Their empty words are meaningless now.
August 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Keir Starmer and Labour have given Israel the weapons, intelligence, and political protection to illegally occupy Gaza - and murder Palestinians.
They tried to silence opposition to these crimes by attacking our basic democratic rights.
Their empty words are meaningless now.
They tried to silence opposition to these crimes by attacking our basic democratic rights.
Their empty words are meaningless now.
Alexander Dennis must be brought into democratic public ownership - with a worker-led plan to save all jobs and kickstart green production here in Scotland.
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
August 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Alexander Dennis must be brought into democratic public ownership - with a worker-led plan to save all jobs and kickstart green production here in Scotland.
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
🗨️ "it’s the responsibility of the movement for national sovereignty to chart a course that ties the demand for independence with the struggles of anti imperialism, international solidarity and radical wealth redistribution."
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July 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🗨️ "it’s the responsibility of the movement for national sovereignty to chart a course that ties the demand for independence with the struggles of anti imperialism, international solidarity and radical wealth redistribution."
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Keir Starmer has left the door wide open to the fraud far right - because they both serve the same elite, anti-working class interests.
July 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Keir Starmer has left the door wide open to the fraud far right - because they both serve the same elite, anti-working class interests.
🗨️ "We cannot rely on personalities; we require fighting socialist principles and policies. We cannot rely on messiahs; we need mass movements of the Scottish working class to carve out an independent socialist future."
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July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🗨️ "We cannot rely on personalities; we require fighting socialist principles and policies. We cannot rely on messiahs; we need mass movements of the Scottish working class to carve out an independent socialist future."
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🗨️ "Defiance of Westminster with radical socialist measures of wealth redistribution is the road to a huge, unstoppable independence majority – not compliance with Tory and now Labour butchery to jobs, wages and services"
✍️ Richie Venton in The National:
www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
✍️ Richie Venton in The National:
www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
John Swinney needs to understand socialism and independence are inseparable
THERE is nothing fresh in John Swinney’s allegedly brand-new strategy for winning independence ...
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July 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🗨️ "Defiance of Westminster with radical socialist measures of wealth redistribution is the road to a huge, unstoppable independence majority – not compliance with Tory and now Labour butchery to jobs, wages and services"
✍️ Richie Venton in The National:
www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
✍️ Richie Venton in The National:
www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
☀️ We've been having a great day in the sun, talking to festival-goers at #TRNSMT.
Young people have made it absolutely clear: they're backing our demand for an end to arms sales, to war profiteering, and to the UK government's complicity in genocide in Gaza.
Young people have made it absolutely clear: they're backing our demand for an end to arms sales, to war profiteering, and to the UK government's complicity in genocide in Gaza.
July 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
☀️ We've been having a great day in the sun, talking to festival-goers at #TRNSMT.
Young people have made it absolutely clear: they're backing our demand for an end to arms sales, to war profiteering, and to the UK government's complicity in genocide in Gaza.
Young people have made it absolutely clear: they're backing our demand for an end to arms sales, to war profiteering, and to the UK government's complicity in genocide in Gaza.
SSP National Trade Union Organiser Richie Venton spoke to The National earlier this week about the proposed new formation around Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. We have published Richie’s comments in full.
scottishsocialistparty.org/jeremy-corby...
scottishsocialistparty.org/jeremy-corby...
Policy and programme, not personalities: Richie Venton comments on proposed new UK left-wing party » Scottish Socialist Party
We have published Richie Venton's comments to The National regarding a proposed new UK left-wing party in full.
scottishsocialistparty.org
July 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
SSP National Trade Union Organiser Richie Venton spoke to The National earlier this week about the proposed new formation around Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. We have published Richie’s comments in full.
scottishsocialistparty.org/jeremy-corby...
scottishsocialistparty.org/jeremy-corby...
Abusing anti-terror laws to ban non-violent protest is a dangerous assault on all of our democratic rights - rights that were not just given to us, but which generations before ours fought and struggled for.
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July 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Abusing anti-terror laws to ban non-violent protest is a dangerous assault on all of our democratic rights - rights that were not just given to us, but which generations before ours fought and struggled for.
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Every day we can see on our feeds exactly what Labour Westminster government is supporting and doing in Palestine - and we can see the real consequences of war and warmongering on fellow human beings for ourselves.
Labour's attempts to silence opposition and end freedom of speech will not work.
Labour's attempts to silence opposition and end freedom of speech will not work.
June 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Every day we can see on our feeds exactly what Labour Westminster government is supporting and doing in Palestine - and we can see the real consequences of war and warmongering on fellow human beings for ourselves.
Labour's attempts to silence opposition and end freedom of speech will not work.
Labour's attempts to silence opposition and end freedom of speech will not work.
Alexander Dennis must be brought into democratic public ownership - led by workers - to deliver green jobs and green production in Scotland.
After the betrayal at Grangemouth, SNP and Labour governments must not allow another act of vandalism to be inflicted on Scotland.
After the betrayal at Grangemouth, SNP and Labour governments must not allow another act of vandalism to be inflicted on Scotland.
June 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Alexander Dennis must be brought into democratic public ownership - led by workers - to deliver green jobs and green production in Scotland.
After the betrayal at Grangemouth, SNP and Labour governments must not allow another act of vandalism to be inflicted on Scotland.
After the betrayal at Grangemouth, SNP and Labour governments must not allow another act of vandalism to be inflicted on Scotland.
No concealment will erase the facts or memory of the crimes committed by the state in the 1980s - or the fact those crimes extended to the highest level of government.
Labour attempts to suppress opposition today are a continuation of those crimes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour attempts to suppress opposition today are a continuation of those crimes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files
Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
No concealment will erase the facts or memory of the crimes committed by the state in the 1980s - or the fact those crimes extended to the highest level of government.
Labour attempts to suppress opposition today are a continuation of those crimes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour attempts to suppress opposition today are a continuation of those crimes.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The violence in Ballymena underlines the urgent need for working-class organisation and unity.
Originally of Co. Fermanagh, Richie Venton discusses how working-class unity has and can again provide a counterforce to racist and sectarian violence.
scottishsocialistparty.org/ballymena-vi...
Originally of Co. Fermanagh, Richie Venton discusses how working-class unity has and can again provide a counterforce to racist and sectarian violence.
scottishsocialistparty.org/ballymena-vi...
Ballymena: Appalling violence reveals urgent need for working-class unity » Scottish Socialist Party
The Scottish Socialist Party has condemned the appalling racist violence in Northern Ireland, and calls for a working-class counterforce.
scottishsocialistparty.org
June 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The violence in Ballymena underlines the urgent need for working-class organisation and unity.
Originally of Co. Fermanagh, Richie Venton discusses how working-class unity has and can again provide a counterforce to racist and sectarian violence.
scottishsocialistparty.org/ballymena-vi...
Originally of Co. Fermanagh, Richie Venton discusses how working-class unity has and can again provide a counterforce to racist and sectarian violence.
scottishsocialistparty.org/ballymena-vi...
The UK government has enabled and assisted Israel to act with impunity in the genocide in Gaza, illegal settlement in the West Bank, the bombing of Yemen, and the invasions of Lebanon and Syria.
Now, we are being dragged towards open war with Iran.
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Now, we are being dragged towards open war with Iran.
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June 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The UK government has enabled and assisted Israel to act with impunity in the genocide in Gaza, illegal settlement in the West Bank, the bombing of Yemen, and the invasions of Lebanon and Syria.
Now, we are being dragged towards open war with Iran.
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Now, we are being dragged towards open war with Iran.
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Alexander Dennis must be brought into democratic public ownership, under workers' control, to save jobs, protect a vital manufacturing asset, and facilitate a worker-led transition to green production.
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
Nationalise to save Alexander Dennis buses » Scottish Socialist Party
The SSP has demanded that Alexander Dennis be brought into democratic public ownership and workers' control.
scottishsocialistparty.org
June 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Alexander Dennis must be brought into democratic public ownership, under workers' control, to save jobs, protect a vital manufacturing asset, and facilitate a worker-led transition to green production.
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...