Fighting Austerity
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Aberdeen City Council Axe Men Come after Frontline Services
Aberdeen Socialist Party Scotland Aberdeen City Council SNP/Lib Dem bean counters are looking to axe services, cut the hours of…
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Highland housing crisis: build council homes at affordable rents
Highland Socialist Party Scotland reporters The Highlands and Islands are in the midst of a housing crisis. The proliferation of…
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Tories’ Universal Credit robbery
Jimmy Haddow, Lothian Socialist Party Scotland In his initial response to the Covid crisis in the March 2020 budget, the…
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Open our venues – Stop the cuts
The socialist-led UNISON Glasgow Branch is demanding the city’s SNP leadership re-open all Glasgow Life venues under council ownership. Glasgow…
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Austerity capitalism stealing years off our lives
By Matt Dobson The recent National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures on healthy life expectancy (HLE) are yet another indicator…
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Poverty, food and jobs crisis needs socialist action
Matt Dobson reports The results of the latest poverty study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation are an utter condemnation of…
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Step forward in ending period poverty – now fight all austerity
By Lynda McEwan In a first of its kind globally, The Period Products (Free Provision) Scotland Act was enshrined into…
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Corbyn must pledge to scrap Universal Credit
By Jimmy Haddow, East Lothian The number of Universal Credit (UC) claimants in Scotland is almost 222,000. This means that…
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Massive turnout to fight closure of Glasgow’s Whitehill Pool
Dave Semple, Socialist Party Scotland, Dennistoun resident and Whitehill pool user Over 200 people packed into Dennistoun Library in Glasgow on…
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Dundee/Glasgow: March against cuts and for equal pay
Two important demonstrations are taking place this Saturday, 10th February, in Dundee and Glasgow. Organised by local government trade unions…
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