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Hate Crime Act won’t aid the fight against oppression
Socialist Party Scotland statement The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act was implemented on 1 April to a storm…
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Support the home care strikes for pay justice
Text of a Socialist Party Scotland leaflet Hundreds of home care workers are striking for pay justice. Socialist Party Scotland…
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Gaza: only working class and poor can end war and oppression
Editorial from the Socialist, England and Wales, March 27, 2024 After almost six months, after more than 32,000 dead, after…
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Ending women’s oppression – What’s socialism got to do with it?
Lynda McEwan The oppression of women, ideas of sexism and misogyny, whilst entrenched in modern society, hasn’t always been the…
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Gove, Prevent and attacks on the right to protest
Matt Dobson Tory levelling up secretary Micheal Gove made a brazen attack on democratic rights and civil liberties in the…
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The SNP in crisis one year on
Philip Stott A year has passed since the SNP was thrown into a huge crisis following the resignation of Nicola…
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Scottish Perspectives 2024: A new era of working class struggle and capitalist crisis
The following document was discussed and adopted by the Socialist Party Scotland congress in March 2024. International backdrop The tumultuous…
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Windfall tax con: Demand socialist nationalisation of big energy
Philip Stott The recent Tory budget saw chancellor Jeremy Hunt announce a 12-month extension to the windfall tax on energy…
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International Women’s Day ‘Down with war, forward with socialism!’
Bea Gardner, Socialist Party England and Wales national committee International Women’s Day 2024, 8 March, takes place in a world…
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The lessons of the heroic 1984-85 miners’ strike
Forty years ago, on 9 March 1984, Scottish miners began strike action. The Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) members…
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