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Nationalise the energy companies to end fuel price hikes
William Campbell At the start of autumn it was reported that energy firms were going bust. It’s expected that from…
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Strike for pay rises and a socialist recovery
Socialist Party Scotland editorial statement Workers and their families are facing a tsunami of cost of living increases, with inflation…
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Come to the Youth Fight for Jobs Glasgow protest
Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) Scotland will be protesting at Skills Development Scotland, George Square, Glasgow on Saturday 9 October at…
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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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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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Can a Universal Basic Income help stave off the looming economic crisis?
Jimmy Haddow, Socialist Party Scotland national committee The Coronavirus pandemic has brought large parts of the capitalist economy to a…
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Coronavirus: A workers’ charter
By Socialist Party Scotland Fight for full funding for the NHS and public services No loss of wages/income for workers,…
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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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Scotland’s drug death horror an indictment of rotten capitalism
By Lynda McEwan Figures published this week have identified Scotland as having the highest drug-related deaths in the EU. This…
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Universal Credit forces women into ‘survival sex’: scrap it now!
Isai Priya, Waltham Forest Socialist Party Growing numbers of welfare claimants impoverished by Universal Credit, benefit sanctions or cuts to…
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