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Referendum has nothing to offer
07 Jun 2012
Neither Scottish independence nor British unionism. Sarah McDonald looks at the launch of the "Yes" campaign
Healthcare and moral hysteria
08 Jan 2004
New Labour is proposing to charge failed asylum-seekers for healthcare. There is more to this move than budget trimming, argues Jem Jones
Antidote to Blairite lies and deceit
08 Jan 2004
The issue of health is one of those battlegrounds that Blair could easily become unstuck over in the next few years. , says Phil Hamilton
Big people and the small state
08 Jan 2004
Tory leader Michael Howard declares: "I believe the people should be big. That the state should be small." This is a sentiment that authentic Marxists would wholeheartedly concur with, writes Jack Conrad
Provocative and insulting
04 Dec 2003
There was nothing remotely progressive in the defeat of Jacobitism, argues Dave Douglass, in this response to Neil Davidson of the Scottish Socialist Party's Socialist Worker platform
Good Friday on the rocks
04 Dec 2003
Ian Donovan examines the rise and rise of Paisleyism and what it means for the Six Counties
Stealing from BNP
27 Nov 2003
The selection of Howard as leader - with the other camp too weakened even to field a token standard bearer - indicates the Tories have effectively accepted the BNP's logic. Worried about the so-called vacuum on the left? Watch out for the pressure cooker on the right.
Royal agony continues
27 Nov 2003
George W Bushs time in Britain was a state visit. This meant he was the guest of the queen and stayed at Buckingham Palace. It was to be part of the post-Iraq victory celebrations and the beginning of his election campaign.
Rattled Tories crown Howard
06 Nov 2003
Michael Malkin says the Tory leadership contest tells us much about the state of the Conservative Party
Unity is democratic demand too
30 Oct 2003
The Scottish Socialist Party's national council met in Stirling on Sunday October 26 with around 150 delegates and observers in attendance. Sarah McDonald reports
Party notes: Royal scandals and platonic republicanism
30 Oct 2003
Paul Burrell's book 'A royal duty' has unleashed yet another crisis for the beleaguered British Royal family. Jack Conrad comments
Socialism 2003: Tensions rise to surface
23 Oct 2003
Over the weekend of October 18-19 at Glasgow Caledonian University the Scottish Socialist Party held its fourth annual school. Sarah McDonald was there
Scottish Socialist Party: Dilemmas of separatism
23 Oct 2003
The debate on Scottish independence at Socialism 2003 brought into sharp focus a number of issues that will be crucial for the progress of the Scottish Socialist Party over the next period. Nick Rogers reports
Bourgeois revolutions and breaking national myths
16 Oct 2003
Neil Davidson, a member of the Socialist Worker platform in the SSP, systematically takes apart what commonly passes for Scottish history. This is an edited version of the opening he gave to this year's Communist University
Labour socialists and SSP
16 Oct 2003
Can Labour be reclaimed? Are avenues of dissent concreted over? Vince Mills secretary of the Campaign for Socialism - a group within the Scottish Labour Party - speaks to Mark Fischer
MI6 and UK Independence Party
31 May 2001
Tories? desperate throw