Scottish Socialist Party
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🟥🟨 For an Independent Socialist Scotland.
🟥🟨 For an Independent Socialist Scotland.
🗨️ "We need full public funding of education, through taxation of millionaires and big business, with democratic management of universities"
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Striking to save jobs and education at UWS » Scottish Socialist Party
The SSP has sent its solidarity to EIS union members who have been on strike at UWS.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🗨️ "We need full public funding of education, through taxation of millionaires and big business, with democratic management of universities"
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2/2 This story is distressing, but makes clear how a privatised, for-profit system of care fails both vulnerable service users and overwhelmed, underpaid workers.
We need a fully publicly owned, publicly funded National Care Service, delivering free at the point of use care.
We need a fully publicly owned, publicly funded National Care Service, delivering free at the point of use care.
September 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
2/2 This story is distressing, but makes clear how a privatised, for-profit system of care fails both vulnerable service users and overwhelmed, underpaid workers.
We need a fully publicly owned, publicly funded National Care Service, delivering free at the point of use care.
We need a fully publicly owned, publicly funded National Care Service, delivering free at the point of use care.
September 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
We'll be alongside the Justice for Palestine Society, making clear our opposition to war, imperialism, and Labour-backed genocide in Palestine.
And we'll be putting forward the popular socialist alternative to Labour and Reform's discredited austerity and privatisation agenda.
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And we'll be putting forward the popular socialist alternative to Labour and Reform's discredited austerity and privatisation agenda.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We'll be alongside the Justice for Palestine Society, making clear our opposition to war, imperialism, and Labour-backed genocide in Palestine.
And we'll be putting forward the popular socialist alternative to Labour and Reform's discredited austerity and privatisation agenda.
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And we'll be putting forward the popular socialist alternative to Labour and Reform's discredited austerity and privatisation agenda.
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💬 "SSP candidates... commit to being a socialist MSP on a worker’s wage.
"No political party serious about socialist change, for the benefit of Scotland’s people... can fudge or compromise on the wage their MSPs live on."
✍️ Richie Venton in The National
"No political party serious about socialist change, for the benefit of Scotland’s people... can fudge or compromise on the wage their MSPs live on."
✍️ Richie Venton in The National
August 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
💬 "SSP candidates... commit to being a socialist MSP on a worker’s wage.
"No political party serious about socialist change, for the benefit of Scotland’s people... can fudge or compromise on the wage their MSPs live on."
✍️ Richie Venton in The National
"No political party serious about socialist change, for the benefit of Scotland’s people... can fudge or compromise on the wage their MSPs live on."
✍️ Richie Venton in The National
The UK government must stop arming and giving military assistance to Israel.
The Scottish government must immediately halt all public subsidies for war profiteers.
Politicians who have broken international law must be brought to justice.
The Scottish government must immediately halt all public subsidies for war profiteers.
Politicians who have broken international law must be brought to justice.
August 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The UK government must stop arming and giving military assistance to Israel.
The Scottish government must immediately halt all public subsidies for war profiteers.
Politicians who have broken international law must be brought to justice.
The Scottish government must immediately halt all public subsidies for war profiteers.
Politicians who have broken international law must be brought to justice.
Key decisions about Scotland's future are being made for the sake of short-term profiteering outside of Scotland - sidelining Scotland's workers, and destroying any pretence of a green industrial plan for Scotland.
We need democratic public ownership.
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
We need democratic public ownership.
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
Alexander Dennis: There can be no Just Transition without public ownership » Scottish Socialist Party
There can be no just transition without public ownership. Alexander Dennis must be brought into public ownership.
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August 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Key decisions about Scotland's future are being made for the sake of short-term profiteering outside of Scotland - sidelining Scotland's workers, and destroying any pretence of a green industrial plan for Scotland.
We need democratic public ownership.
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
We need democratic public ownership.
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
The SNP's same empty promises and lack of urgency just won't cut it.
We need a mass democratic movement rooted in the working-class majority - one that can fight and defy established power, not surrender to it.
✍️ Liam McLaughlan writes in Conter:
www.conter.scot/2025/7/29/sw...
We need a mass democratic movement rooted in the working-class majority - one that can fight and defy established power, not surrender to it.
✍️ Liam McLaughlan writes in Conter:
www.conter.scot/2025/7/29/sw...
Swinney, The Movement And The British State
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Swinney’s 10,000 men are marching up the hill again, and when they were only half way up they were neither up nor down. The Grand old Duke of Bute...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The SNP's same empty promises and lack of urgency just won't cut it.
We need a mass democratic movement rooted in the working-class majority - one that can fight and defy established power, not surrender to it.
✍️ Liam McLaughlan writes in Conter:
www.conter.scot/2025/7/29/sw...
We need a mass democratic movement rooted in the working-class majority - one that can fight and defy established power, not surrender to it.
✍️ Liam McLaughlan writes in Conter:
www.conter.scot/2025/7/29/sw...
This weekend, we've been out in numbers in Glasgow and Aberdeen - standing up to the anti-working class far right, and championing the popular socialist alternatives that put wealth and power back into the hands of the working class.
July 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
This weekend, we've been out in numbers in Glasgow and Aberdeen - standing up to the anti-working class far right, and championing the popular socialist alternatives that put wealth and power back into the hands of the working class.
If John Swinney wants to reignite the independence movement, he needs to defy Westminster - not comply with it.
We need a mass working-class movement to defy Westminster, defy elites, and take back our stolen billions.
scottishsocialistparty.org/defiance-not...
We need a mass working-class movement to defy Westminster, defy elites, and take back our stolen billions.
scottishsocialistparty.org/defiance-not...
Defiance, not compliance: Scotland needs a plan for radical change and working-class leadership that will fight for it. » Scottish Socialist Party
The SNP's stale status-quo won't deliver independence. We need a mass movement to defy Westminster and take back our stolen billions.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If John Swinney wants to reignite the independence movement, he needs to defy Westminster - not comply with it.
We need a mass working-class movement to defy Westminster, defy elites, and take back our stolen billions.
scottishsocialistparty.org/defiance-not...
We need a mass working-class movement to defy Westminster, defy elites, and take back our stolen billions.
scottishsocialistparty.org/defiance-not...