For the Democratic Renewal of the Scottish Socialist Party

Letter issued on 7th August 2006 by Tommy Sheridan and his supporters in the so-called SSP Majority Dear Comrade and Friend, The SSP has reached a crossroads. The issues raised by Comrade Tommy Sheridan’s titanic victory over the gutter rag News of the World have underscored a number of political differences, outlook and methodologies within…

We Salute your Democracy, Equality and Accountability!

This is a letter of solidarity sent to the SSP from the Irish Socialist Network, first printed in the Scottish Socialist Voice (Issue 280, 29th Sept. 2006) On behalf of the Irish Socialist Network, I wish to express our solidarity with the SSP at this challenging time. In recent years, the SSP has been a…

Build a New Party for Socialism in Scotland Working Class People Need a Political Voice

Press release from the CWI Scotland announcing their exit from the SSP Originally published on the CWI website The Committee for a Workers International platform of the SSP has agreed to support the building of a new party of socialism in Scotland. We believe the SSP is now effectively finished as a party that could…

Solidarity : A Statement from the Socialist Worker Platform

The Socialist Worker platform justify their decision to walk away from the SSP There can have been very few times when there was such widespread public revulsion against the government. Lebanon is on everyone’s lips and the world seems an increasingly dangerous place in Bush and Blair’s hands. It seems that the only people who…