News & Analysis
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Oil price crisis: Nationalisation needed to save jobs and protect the environment
Jamie Cocozza The global oil crisis, deepened as it has within the past few weeks, has alarmed the capitalist class.…
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Murphy’s election means trade unions must build a new workers party
Philip Stott Jim Murphy’s election as Labour’s new Scottish leader has underlined the need for the affiliated trade unions to…
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Europe: a new wave of workers’ struggle has begun
Editorial from the Socialist. The paper of Socialist Party England and Wales Once again workers are in revolt against “elderly…
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More powers for Scotland, but they don’t go far enough
Philip Stott Significant new powers over tax and benefits are to be devolved to Scotland following the report of the…
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Scottish Labour’s crisis and the building of a socialist challenge to austerity
Philip Stott Opinion polls are a potent reflection of the collapse of Labour’s support in Scotland. The latest in a…
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Socialist Party replies to attacks as mass water charges campaign threatens to bring the government down
Socialist Party Ireland A week can be a very long time in politics. On Saturday 15 November, following an anti-water…
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Socialist Party under attack from billionaire media and capitalist establishment in Ireland
A mass revolt against water charges, an austerity tax, is taking place in Ireland. Hundreds of thousands of working class…
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Scotland’s NHS facing cuts – End privatisation and nationalise the drug companies
By Luke Ivory A new report from Audit Scotland on the finances of NHS Scotland has outlined the significant pressures…
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Hundreds protest at funding cuts to Glasgow mental health charity
By Matt Dobson 200 workers, service users and supportive trade unionists protested against a 40% funding cut to the Glasgow Association…
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Successful Scottish TUSC conference votes to stand anti-cuts candidates in 2015
The Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) conference has voted unanimously to stand candidates in the 2015 Westminster elections…
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