🗨️ "We need full public funding of education, through taxation of millionaires and big business, with democratic management of universities"
scottishsocialistparty.org/striking-to-...
Compulsory redundancies at UWS will be a disaster for workers, communities, and learners.
We're standing with striking workers in the fight to save Higher Education in Scotland.
Richie Venton spoke with EIS-ULA branch secretary Katie Clark:
youtu.be/jRYuhz3mfNU
2/2 This story is distressing, but makes clear how a privatised, for-profit system of care fails both vulnerable service users and overwhelmed, underpaid workers.
We need a fully publicly owned, publicly funded National Care Service, delivering free at the point of use care.
1/2 "Castlehill pays carers £13 per hour [...]
"Internal documents show it expects to make pre-tax profits of more than £90m in the next five years.
"It also projects the company will be worth more than £500m by 2027."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Let's build Scotland's socialist movement.
join.TheSSP.scot
Your party is right here.
The Scottish Socialist Party is fighting for socialist change for Scotland's working class, and standing in the 2026 Holyrood elections.
scottishsocialistparty.org/your-party-i...
We'll be alongside the Justice for Palestine Society, making clear our opposition to war, imperialism, and Labour-backed genocide in Palestine.
And we'll be putting forward the popular socialist alternative to Labour and Reform's discredited austerity and privatisation agenda.
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🕛 Tonight, 6pm
📍 Room 709, Boyd Orr Building, University Ave., Glasgow
👇 All welcome; details below.
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The UK government is complicit in the weaponised famine and mass killings perpetrated by Isaac Herzog's government in Palestine.
Instead of rolling out the red carpet for him and waging war on peaceful protestors, Labour must end its complicity in genocide.
Instead of career politicians lining their own pockets while imposing austerity on working-class people, let's elect socialist MSPs on a worker's wage.
Corruption and self-enrichment in politics is a poison.
We need socialist MSPs on a worker's wage instead.
socialistvoice.scot/subscriptions/
💬 "SSP candidates... commit to being a socialist MSP on a worker’s wage.
"No political party serious about socialist change, for the benefit of Scotland’s people... can fudge or compromise on the wage their MSPs live on."
✍️ Richie Venton in The National
From landlord Labour ministers to bottomless expense accounts to pocketing freebies from lobbyists - corruption and self-enrichment has poisoned democracy.
Instead, all SSP candidates pledge to live on the average worker’s wage only.
www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
⚠️ Trade Unions and socialists must urgently mobilise a real alternative to both the far-right and the broken status quo, based on working-class demands.
scottishsocialistparty.org/falkirk-show...
🚨 Yes, it can happen here.
We must build the positive, working-class, socialist alternative in communities that have been ravaged by austerity, low-quality housing, and job losses - a genuine alternative to both the broken status quo and the billionaire-funded far-right.
The UK government must stop arming and giving military assistance to Israel.
The Scottish government must immediately halt all public subsidies for war profiteers.
Politicians who have broken international law must be brought to justice.
Keir Starmer and Labour have given Israel the weapons, intelligence, and political protection to illegally occupy Gaza - and murder Palestinians.
They tried to silence opposition to these crimes by attacking our basic democratic rights.
Their empty words are meaningless now.
Key decisions about Scotland's future are being made for the sake of short-term profiteering outside of Scotland - sidelining Scotland's workers, and destroying any pretence of a green industrial plan for Scotland.
We need democratic public ownership.
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
Alexander Dennis must be brought into democratic public ownership - with a worker-led plan to save all jobs and kickstart green production here in Scotland.
scottishsocialistparty.org/nationalise-...
The SNP's same empty promises and lack of urgency just won't cut it.
We need a mass democratic movement rooted in the working-class majority - one that can fight and defy established power, not surrender to it.
✍️ Liam McLaughlan writes in Conter:
www.conter.scot/2025/7/29/sw...
🗨️ "it’s the responsibility of the movement for national sovereignty to chart a course that ties the demand for independence with the struggles of anti imperialism, international solidarity and radical wealth redistribution."
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This weekend, we've been out in numbers in Glasgow and Aberdeen - standing up to the anti-working class far right, and championing the popular socialist alternatives that put wealth and power back into the hands of the working class.
Keir Starmer has left the door wide open to the fraud far right - because they both serve the same elite, anti-working class interests.
If John Swinney wants to reignite the independence movement, he needs to defy Westminster - not comply with it.
We need a mass working-class movement to defy Westminster, defy elites, and take back our stolen billions.
scottishsocialistparty.org/defiance-not...
🗨️ "We cannot rely on personalities; we require fighting socialist principles and policies. We cannot rely on messiahs; we need mass movements of the Scottish working class to carve out an independent socialist future."
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A socialist party? Rooted in Scotland's working class? Governed by its members, not by London? Campaigning for an independent, socialist Scotland?
It already exists:
join.theSSP.scot
🗨️ "Defiance of Westminster with radical socialist measures of wealth redistribution is the road to a huge, unstoppable independence majority – not compliance with Tory and now Labour butchery to jobs, wages and services"
✍️ Richie Venton in The National:
www.thenational.scot/politics/253...
☀️ We've been having a great day in the sun, talking to festival-goers at #TRNSMT.
Young people have made it absolutely clear: they're backing our demand for an end to arms sales, to war profiteering, and to the UK government's complicity in genocide in Gaza.
SSP National Trade Union Organiser Richie Venton spoke to The National earlier this week about the proposed new formation around Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. We have published Richie’s comments in full.
scottishsocialistparty.org/jeremy-corby...
It will not dissuade the great majority who oppose war profiteering and genocide, nor will it silence the demand to end arms sales to Israel.
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