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Scottish Socialist Voice • Issue Bin the Bedroom Tax demo: the masses take the axe the tax message to the Lib Dems UK conference in Glasgow on 14 September • see page 12 £1 • issue 422 • 16th - 29th August 2013 facebook.com/scottishsocialistvoice BAN ZERO WAGE SLAVERY: household name employers such HOURS as McDonald’s and Boots use zero hours contracts WCOROKENRS NTEERD AA LIVCINGT WAS GE Build a socialist future based •Se e page s 6&7 on pefacoebpoolke.co,m n/Scootttis hpSorcioalisftViotics e @ssv_voice NEWS SURGE IN A Moscow kiss VIOLENCE LINKED TO CONDEM ATTACKS RAIL union RMT said this week that a surge in personal thefts and acts of violence on Britain’s railways, revealed by the British Transport Police and rail chiefs, is directly linked to the government’s attack on sta - tion and train staffing numbers and is set to worsen if the rec - ommendations of the McNulty Rail Review are not reversed. The shocking new figures show that the number of thefts of personal property from railway passengers has risen by 16 per cent and that there has also been an increase in violent incidents in the past year, which rose by 201 on the National Rail network. Warning RMT is warning that cuts to on- train and station staff encourages violent and criminal behaviour and is set to escalate into a whole - sale de-staffing of the network if the government get away with their McNulty review plans. RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said: “These shocking new figures IT STARTED WITH A KISS : Pam Currie and Aileen Connor kiss to highlight attacks on Russia’s gay community on thefts and violence on Britain’s trains should be a wake- LGBT campaigner Pam and support group, LGBTQ went viral. Pink News picked up call to the Government as they Currie explains how this Ayrshire, with a wee message up the story (with over 1100 roll ahead with their plans to axe photo went viral sending our solidarity to the Facebook ‘likes’) and dozens guards, station and platform staff LGBT community in Russia. of folk re-tweeted it around in the name of maximising the “MY partner and I decided “I’d switched my phone off the world. It’s been picked up train operators’ profits. to take a snap of ourselves while we took stuff from my by the Gay Pride website in “Without a physical presence outside of Moscow, Ayrshire mother in laws’ place to the Chicago and we hope that of staff on our trains and stations, on the spur of the moment, skip in Cumnock - switched it there’ll be a piece in Diva the muggers, the drunks and the while in the area to pick up a back on when we finished to magazine - as well as next violent are given the green light van in nearby Kilmarnock. get a text from my sister... week’s Kilmarnock Standard ! to launch thefts and attacks and “Uploading the snap, I she’d been idly scrolling “All in all, a successful the sooner the government wake tagged a couple of Facebook through Twitter to see my pic couple of minutes’ work to up to the consequences of their friends who I knew had an retweeted by Stephen Fry! highlight the legal and cuts plans the safer our railways interest in LGBT issues, “LGBTQ Ayrshire had physical attacks on Russia’s will be for all of us.” including our local campaign tweeted us and from there it gay community.” 2 • Scottish Socialist Voice • issue 422 NEWS INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM : one year on - one year to go by Colin Fox, SSP joint tish working class is another impor - national spokesperson tant factor likely to have a large bear - and Yes Scotland ing on the result. Many people in Advisory Board member Scotland are experiencing a drastic decline in their standard of living as THOSE who look at the opinion incomes are held back just as their polls and conclude little has changed bills continue to increase. in the independence debate over the We in the Yes campaign clearly past year overlook a great deal. They must convince people that inde - forget Yes Scotland set itself two ini - pendence can provide relief from tial objectives; to get everyone talk - the worst recession in 80 years. Per - ing about independence and to build suading undecided voters clearly re - ‘the biggest grassroots campaign RALLY 2012: mains crucial to a successful Yes Scotland has ever seen’. It would be the SSP’s Colin Fox vote next year. foolish to deny substantial progress addresses 10,000 has been made on both fronts. pro-independence Passion The entire country is now talking demonstrators in Having emphasised the demo - about independence in a way it central Edinburgh cratic right to determine our own fu - PHOTO: Craig Maclean wasn’t this time last year and the ture the Yes Scotland campaign grassroots campaign made up of and as Blair Jenkins of Yes Scotland winning the 2015 Westminster gen - moved on this last year to highlight thousands of SNP, SSP, Green succinctly puts it this research also eral election?’ how Scotland’s prevalent social Party and activists of no particular shows that ‘the direction of travel is In January, this debut poll re - democratic values of fairness and affiliation deserve a great deal of the unquestionably towards Yes’. vealed a 60:40 Yes lead over No. justice are repeatedly thwarted by credit for that. Notwithstanding the compla - In other words it revealed a com - Westminster governments we did not cency of the No side who apparently plete turnaround from the headline elect who introduced the Poll Tax Momentum think the result is already in the bag, figures. So we know the prospect of and Bedroom Tax against our Whilst it is true the No side has Yes Scotland retains every chance of another Tory Government not only wishes. More recently, the campaign maintained its lead, detailed research winning. Indeed there are several disgusts a large majority of Scots the emphasised the economic prosperity evidence shows a sizeable number sub-strata of the population already prospect could have a significant Scotland could enjoy and Yes Scot - of voters have still not made up their showing a majority for independ - bearing on the referendum. Most re - land intends next to stress the passion minds, and we will return to them in ence, parents with young families, searchers agree that if the Tories look we have for our cause and our deter - a moment. But it is significant that the social media community and like staying in office at Westminster mination to win what is expected to 46 per cent of voters feel they are under 25s to name but three. that will help the Yes campaign. be a very tight contest indeed. well enough informed about the is - As well as the statistics from the Equally if Ed Miliband’s dismal This then is the backdrop to the sues and 47 per cent of these intend headline poll, which are scrutinised streak ended voters might be more independence debate that supporters to vote Yes with 48 per cent for No. intensely by both sides, there is also inclined to vote No. It is ironic that across Scotland will sense as we all Moreover, momentum counts for a the regularly asked question ‘How the future of this particular ‘Union converge on Edinburgh on 21 Sep - great deal in these type of campaigns will you vote if the Tories look like movement’ now rests not with the tember for the ‘one year to go’ RALLY FOR SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE Tories or Lib Dems but with march and rally. I am delighted to EDINBURGH •SAT 21 SEPTEMBER 2013 Miliband’s ‘anti-union’ New again speak on behalf of the Scottish INDEPENDENCE rally and march iconic Calton Hill for the rally itself. Labour. The latest Westminster polls Socialist Party. Calton Hill has organiser Jeff Duncan told the Coaches depart from all over predict a dead heat with Labour and proud memories for us because it Voice : “Last September’s event Scotland on the morning of the the Tories both on 36 per cent of the was there where SSP members and was a great success - 10,000 rally, dropping off at the assembly vote. Another poll gave Labour a many others gathered in 2005 – as assembled to hear speeches from point and picking up again at the narrow lead but one insufficient to the Queen officially opened the new Margo MacDonald, Alex Salmond, foot of Calton Hill.” win an outright majority. Holyrood Parliament building down Dennis Canavan and many more. Clearly the Scottish independence the road - to declare for a modern “This year we’re assembling in • See IndependenceRally.com referendum does not take place in a democratic republic for Scotland. the heart of Edinburgh, in the High for full details. Call the rally vacuum and will be heavily influ - We will all do so again on 21 Sep - Street, which leads onto the Royal office on 0131 541 2194 from enced by such ‘outside events’. tember as part of our vision of an in - Mile, and proceeding to the highly 10am-7pm for coach details The standard of living of the Scot - dependent socialist Scotland. issue 422 • Scottish Socialist Voice • 3 HIDDEN HISTORIES LABOUR’S FOUNDERS WILL BE ‘SPINNING IN THEIR GRAVES’ AT WHAT THEIR PARTY HAS BECOME says Campbell Martin Liberal Party did not stand, which meant a straight fight between the TO call the organisation led by Ed candidate of labour and a Conserva - Miliband the ‘Labour Party’ is a tive. Hardie polled 5,268 to the Tory grotesque distortion of meaning and candidate’s 4,036 and was elected history.
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