DOCSLIB.ORG

Ssv Voice SANDRA WEBSTER

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Ssv Voice SANDRA WEBSTER Mobilise, resist, defy the Tories: turn votes into resistance in communities, workplaces, campuses, Holyrood and Westminster PHOTO: Craig Maclean • see pages 2 ,3,4,5,6&7 £1 • issue 458 • 15th – 28th May 2015 scottishsocialistvoice.wordpress.com Tories win, City banker boasts: ‘Lobster Thermidor is back on the menu! Buy shares in lap dancing bars!’ NO MANDAT E.. NO TORY CHypocUrisy aTs CaSmero! n calls Tories ‘the real party for working people’ 40% of eligible voters 24% of eligible voters would be needed to elected a tiny majority strike under Tory plans Tory government ScottishSocialistVoice.wordpress.com /ScottishSocialistVoice @ssv_voice SANDRA WEBSTER THE FIRST CUTS WERE NOPHTOTO : CTraig MHaclean E DEEPEST by Sandra Webster, SSP member of a family even if national co-spokesperson multiple members have a dis - ability. Let’s be fair to the Tories WHILE ALL other parties though—they will deliver what promised at least to slow down they have promised, and more. the rate of austerity, and while the These ideological cuts will be SSP’s manifesto was a people’s watched over proudly by Iain one, at the heart of the Tories Duncan Smith and newly-ap - election pledge was to make at pointed Priti Patel who is on least £12billion cuts to benefits. record of supporting the death Softened up by a media on - penalty. We may miss Esther slaught which portrays the poor McVey who lost her Merseyside as scroungers, this pledge is seat. Many find hope that the popular with many who voted new SNP MPs with their anti- Tory—we all need a scapegoat. austerity promises will be able to The first full Tory cabinet in 18 protect us in Scotland from the years met for the first time this worst excesses of Tory policy. week, with Cameron announcing After all, disability benefits they were the party of the work - have been devolved to Holy - ers—rhetoric not that far re - rood by the Smith Commission. moved from the Labour Party But as the first Tory cabinet pledging their support for hard meets, top priority will be given working families. Away from the to the further dismantling of the headlines though, the DWP re - FIGHT! take action and support those affected by the savage Tory cuts welfare state and ensuring “ben - port that, with a benefit system efit units”—as Iain Duncan already pared to the bone, further always suffer. Within hours of abilities into work. We know that Smith has referred to families in cuts are going to impact on those the election result, the DWP an - benefit sanctions will continue, receipt of benefits—are most who may have voted Tory. Of nounced the closure of a scheme with more and more people hav - impacted on. When powers are course, the most vulnerable will that supported people with dis - ing to rely on food banks. devolved, PIP and Universal Iain Duncan Smith has hinted Credit will be rolled out leaving at a form of food stamps where the Scottish Government with those not in work will be given what may prove to be an impos - a pre-paid card to buy food. Uni - sible task in setting things right. versal Credit will continue to be rolled out. Already in Edinburgh, Tory misrule it arrives in Glasgow in June. Another five years of Tory DLA will be replaced by Per - misrule awaits us, and all the sonal Independence Payment finest speeches against austerity with different criteria which will offer no protection. This is a makes it more difficult to get the rallying call to begin to offer sup - financial support the long term port and hope. Be armed with the sick and disabled rely on to lead information. People need to fight an ordinary life. These cuts will benefit sanctions and be success - not make up the £12billion ful in claiming benefits. promised and it is those in work Remember, austerity affects who will be most affected. not only those out of work or in Further cuts to tax credits are low paid work but in all of the to be expected. An end to enti - public sector. The cuts will im - tlement to statutory maternity pact on teachers, nurses, council pay has been leaked in the workers and civil servants. press, as has further limitations We need to plan how to take to child benefit. Carers Al - action and support those affected. lowance, a universal benefit, Only then can we hope to defeat may only be payable to those in the disgraceful Tory rhetoric. The receipt of Universal Credit, and first cuts were not the deepest but PIP may only be payable to one this time they will truly bite us all. 2 • scottishsocialistvoice.wordpress.com • issue 458 EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson The reality is that, as argued by forces including the Scot - FIRST OF all, there is no tish Socialist Party, many trade doubt that the election result in Mass action unions and a range of cam - Scotland is quite simply his - paigners, the austerity pro - toric, sweeping away a Labour gramme far from a necessary dominance which lasted for evil is in fact a cover for a fun - over half a century. central to defeat damental and final marketisa - From pretend left leader Jim tion of the UK and massive Murphy to puffed up foreign af - destruction of the remaining fairs shadow Douglas Alexan - Tory brutality PHOTO: Craig Maclean welfare state. der Labour place persons The huge vote given to the were crushed by the SNP jug - SNP is both an endorsement gernaut and as the dust settled of anti-austerity and a man - a humbled Labour were left date for resistance to it both in with one MP as were their for - Westminster and Holyrood mer Better Together partners and equally importantly in in the Tories and Lib Dems. workplaces, communities and Without doubt, Labour paid within Scottish society at large. a heavy price for their part in Building such a resistance the two year ‘Project Fear’ No must now be a key task for the campaign which, though it period ahead. won, enduringly linked them Already there are signs from as partners to the widely de - the trade unions that the real - tested Tories and totally dis - ity that the Tory manifesto credited Lib Dems. But it is plans even worse anti-union also clear that much deeper laws will produce a response forces are also at work. with figures such as UNITE’s The cowing of Labour dur - Len McLuskey and the ing the Thatcher years turned STUC’s Graeme Smith posing into a decisive break with so - FIGHT! take action and support those affected by the savage Tory cuts the need to break such laws. cialist policies by Blair and ul - For the socialist left which timately ending in the morass by Westminster transformed chose the wrong side with the played such a key role in the of war, the bankers’ bale out the national question into a key wrong arguments and, on 7 referendum campaign to give it and unashamed pro-business demand with both a demo - May, paid the price. At the a left and progressive content priorities is not of itself unique. cratic and class content. heart of the unprecedented working together to fashion a This basic truth was dramat - SNP victory was their stance coherent anti-austerity cam - Placating bosses ically confirmed in the two year as an anti-austerity party which paign which both keeps the Confronted with a confident indyref campaign which saw contrasted sharply—Jim Mur - momentum against Tory brutal - aggressive global capitalism, the debate moved, through phy rhetoric notwithstanding— ity which 7 May represented like Labour, social democrats mass action from simply a with the pro-austerity policies and build a movement express - across Europe moved to the constitutional argument to one of all three unionist parties. ing it must be a central task. right in a vain bid to placate the which spotlighted a competing As the Voice has pointed out bosses and in the process at - vision of Scotland’s future an - before the SNP claim to owner - Opposition tacked their own supporters chored in the politics of an es - ship of the progressive ground And, as the full horror of the with anti-union laws and spend - sentially red/green Scotland of Scottish politics is challenged Tory assault bites, opposition ing cuts. However while this no and informed by a range of by a range of realities from will be unlikely to be confined doubt eroded Labour support ideas including feminism, anti- council cuts through rail and either to Westminster and there can be no question that, militarism and a rejection of ferry privatisation and policies of Holyrood or simply to the bru - in Scotland, the merging of the consumerist greed. cuts which have led to attacks tal cuts signalled by Cameron break with working class poli - Labour was on the winning on workers wages and condi - but seems sure to see growing cies and the rise of the national side last September but in the tions. However there can be no pressure for a fresh independ - question proved decisive in the process aligned itself with aus - question that in spotlighting ence referendum. defeat of 7 May. terity, nuclear weapons and an boldly a rejection of austerity to In the light of the spectacular The experience of the brutal - essentially Westminster elite mass audiences in TV debates defeats in Scotland for the ity of the Thatcher years which contempt for Scottish democ - and in a high profile campaign unionist parties—and £12billion saw mass unemployment, racy trumpeted by the same the SNP have decisively raised of savage cuts to be inflicted by large scale industrial closures media that is now busily run - the question not just of the wis - a government with one Scottish and the Poll Tax imposed on a ning a quasi-racist anti-Scot - dom of austerity but the fact that MP—the demand for a second Scotland which rejected them tish campaign.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • © Patricia M`Cafferty, May 2004. Abstract
    PATRICIA MCCAFFERTY WORKING THE 'THIRD WAY': NEW LABOUR, EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS, AND SCOTTISH DEVOLUTION THESIS PRESENTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW MAY 2004 © PATRICIA M`CAFFERTY, MAY 2004. ABSTRACT Labour's election victory in 1997 was heralded as a new era, the dawn of a Third Way, a novel attempt to chart a unique political course overcoming the perceivedlimitations of both New Right and Old Labour. In this thesis I explore the era of New Labour generally and, in particular, the impact of the Third Way on working lives. Key to my analysis is New Labour's attempt to synthesise oppositional interests,in particular those of capital and labour. This involves a crucial rhetoric of flexibility, competitivenessand partnership. My research explores the rhetoric of New Labour in relation to the reality of this new force in power. It does this by: " drawing out key features in the development of New Labour, especially its relation to Old Labour; " examining central elementsof New Labour ideology; " arguing that Scotland should be seen as central to the transition from Old to New :Labour; " utilising a case study of industrial relations developments in a major electronics factory in the West of Scotland and, to a lesser extent, key developmentsin public sector employment. My main finding is that where New Labour's ideology promisespositive benefits, the form of its implementation has negative impacts for workers. Since I take New Labour as a process, my thesis concludes with a more speculative exploration of possible future developments,both in relations to New Labour's role in them, and their possible impact on the New Labour project.
    [Show full text]
  • Post-Brexit: Thatcherites Snatch Power
    Rail guards stand firm: RMT Coup and counter strikers hold private train coup: tyranny in operater Abellio to account Turkey • see pages 12,10&11 • see page 8 £1 • issue 481 • 5th – 18th August 2016 scottishsocialistvoice.wordpress.com POST-BREXIT: THATCHERITES SNATCH POWER As Labour implodes, the choice is independence or a generation of Tory rule • SCRAP TRIDENT! Jobs not bombs • NO TO RACISM! Refugees welcome • END POVERTY PAY! £10 min. wage Thanks to Eddie Truman for the inspiration EDDIE TRUMAN EDDIE TRUMAN: hundreds have paid tribute to Eddie, who died on July 1st. Eddie was a founder member of the SSP and made friends across the political divide through a lifetime of tireless activism. Eddie is pictured above with former SSP MSP Frances Curran (photo: Craig Maclean) and left, with his partner Catriona Grant. A Voice -style tribute was handed out at his funeral Hundreds remember Eddie Truman: socialist, polemicist and grandfather by Ken Ferguson has deprived us all of years we analysed the world every mo - old grandfather but a carer for should have been able to share ment he was awake. his grandchildren. EDDIE TRUMAN, one of the with him and for me, as I am “He analysed it politically, “Last year Eddie started to founder members of the SSP, sure with others, leaves an socially, and economically. He become unwell and from mid- long term socialist activist, aching of sadness and regret. analysed it through philosophy April until his death on July 1st, photographer and polemicist in At his funeral at a packed and music. His analysis and he was in hospital three times.
    [Show full text]
  • • £10-An-Hour Living Wage • Tax the Rich • Scrap Trident • Fight the Cuts
    Radical voices: Jonathon Shafi, Alan Bissett, Colin Fox, Isobel Lindsay, John McAllion, Paul Holleran & more • see inside £1 • issue 448 • 21st November – 4th December 2014 scottishsocialistvoice.wordpress.com SCOTLAND DEMANDS CHANGE • £10-an-hour living wage • Tax the rich • Scrap Trident • Fight the cuts • Protect benefits • Axe the Council Tax • Dump anti-union laws ScottishSocialistVoice.wordpress.com /ScottishSocialistVoice @ssv_voice EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson AT THE heart of the broad vibrant Yes campaign, which A people before profit Scotland culminated with a massive 45 per cent vote in September’s independence referendum, is the spearhead of change PHOTO: John Lanigan was the clear belief that independence could open the road to a socially just and sustainable Scotland, putting people before profit. Astonished unionists have looked on aghast as the Yes campaign, fuelled by this key vision, not only failed to melt away but—in all its aspects— mushroomed in size and activity. Now the supposed victors of Better Together particularly the sham socialists of the once all conquering Labour Party are staring down the barrel of a political defeat of immense proportions as the reality of the No vote is revealed. SOCIALISTS SAY NO TO NATO: pro-Yes parties differ on issues such as corporation tax, monarchy and NATO Chilling reality The polls predicting a The key question facing the live issue with the proposal For example, it has been Labour meltdown underline left in this situation is how to for a Yes alliance targeting Scottish Socialist
    [Show full text]
  • West Dunbartonshire Council Assurance and Improvement Plan 2014–17
    WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL At the Meeting of West Dunbartonshire Council held in the Council Chambers, Council Offices, Garshake Road, Dumbarton on Wednesday, 18 December 2013 at 2.05 p.m. Present: Provost Douglas McAllister and Councillors Denis Agnew, George Black, Gail Casey, Jim Finn, David McBride, Jonathan McColl, Michelle McGinty, Patrick McGlinchey, Marie McNair, John Millar, John Mooney, Ian Murray, Lawrence O’Neill, Tommy Rainey, Gail Robertson, Martin Rooney, Kath Ryall and Hazel Sorrell. Attending: Joyce White, Chief Executive; Angela Wilson, Executive Director of Corporate Services; Richard Cairns, Executive Director of Infrastructure and Regeneration, Terry Lanagan, Executive Director of Educational Services; Keith Redpath, Director – West Dunbartonshire Community Health & Care Partnership; Peter Hessett, Head of Legal, Democratic & Regulatory Services; Jackie Irvine, Chief Social Work Officer; Stephen West, Head of Finance & Resources; Gillian McNeilly, Finance Manager; Joe Reilly, Finance Business Partner and Christine McCaffary, Senior Democratic Services Officer. Also Attending: Elaine Boyd, Senior Audit Manager, Audit Scotland. Apologies: Apologies for absence were intimated on behalf of Councillors Jim Bollan, Jim Brown and William Hendrie. Provost Douglas McAllister in the Chair MINUTE OF SILENCE Having heard Provost McAllister, Chair, the Council observed a minute of silence as a mark of respect for those killed in the helicopter crash at The Clutha bar in Glasgow on 29 November 2013; the passing of a great world statesman, Nelson Mandela on 7 December 2013 and also to mark the 6th anniversary on 19 December of the sinking of the Flying Phantom tug boat on the River Clyde and the loss of 3 of her crew. DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST It was noted that there were no declarations of interest in any of the items of business on the agenda at this point in the meeting.
    [Show full text]
  • SLR I15 March April 03.Indd
    scottishleftreview comment Issue 15 March/April 2003 A journal of the left in Scotland brought about since the formation of the t is one of those questions that the partial-democrats Scottish Parliament in July 1999 Imock, but it has never been more crucial; what is your vote for? Too much of our political culture in Britain Contents (although this is changing in Scotland) still sees a vote Comment ...............................................................2 as a weapon of last resort. Democracy, for the partial- democrat, is about giving legitimacy to what was going Vote for us ..............................................................4 to happen anyway. If what was going to happen anyway becomes just too much for the public to stomach (or if Bill Butler, Linda Fabiani, Donald Gorrie, Tommy Sheridan, they just tire of the incumbents or, on a rare occasion, Robin Harper are actually enthusiastic about an alternative choice) then End of the affair .....................................................8 they can invoke their right of veto and bring in the next lot. Tommy Sheppard, Dorothy Grace Elder And then it is back to business as before. Three million uses for a second vote ..................11 Blair is the partial-democrat par excellence. There are David Miller two ways in which this is easily recognisable. The first, More parties, more choice?.................................14 and by far the most obvious, is the manner in which he Isobel Lindsay views international democracy. In Blair’s world view, the If voting changed anything...................................16 purpose of the United Nations is not to make a reasoned, debated, democratic decision but to give legitimacy to the Robin McAlpine actions of the powerful.
    [Show full text]
  • Scottish Socialist Voice
    The Dundee Timex strike - 20 years on: Sam Lee: singer mostly female workforce’s heroic fight challenges folk electrified workers across the globe preconceptions • see pages 6&7 • see page 8 £1 • issue 410 • 25th January - 7th February 2013 www.scottishsocialistvoice.net IAN DAVIDSON JOHANN LAMONT ANAS SARWAR A PARCEL by Alan Bissett Scotland what Shakespeare Scots Labour politicians brand is to England and Dylan is to Holyrood ‘undemocratic’, oppose IF there is a single figure America: a bard whose who could symbolise complexity, linguistic genius Bannockburn commemoration, Scotland it is Robert Burns. and poetic sensitivity can but support Tories’ cuts and £50m Regarded around the world articulate the soul of an entire O’ ROGas one of the gUreatest poets Enation. S marking of WW1 slaughter... who ever lived, he is to • Continued on page 9 facebook.com/ScottishSocialistVoice @ssv_voice INDEPENDENCE Challenges facing SSP P H O T Many in this movement be - by Colin Fox O : and Yes camp in 2C liev0e it is on1ly by 3 persuading our r a i THE 600 people who crammed g fellow Scots of the material ad - M into the Yes Glasgow launch a vantages they can expect from c l e meeting last week took the final a independence that we can win tally attending these inaugural n the vote in 2014. events to around 4000 - that’s Not everyone in favour of in - 4000 activists eager to play their dependence is a socialist of part in maximising the Yes vote course. But it is also true there in their area in the 2014 Inde - are hundreds of pro-indepen - pendence Referendum.
    [Show full text]
  • Renewing Economic Democracy
    Issue 30 September/October 2005 scottishleftreview £2.00 WHAT NEXT FOR EUROPE? scottishleftreviewIssue 30 September/October 2005 Contents Comment ........................................................2 Do we need Europe anyway? ........................12 André Brie Feedback .........................................................4 Power/imbalance ..........................................16 Ian Davidson Five years of SLR ............................................6 Sanctuary in Europe? ....................................18 Robin McAlpine Bob Thomson Another constitution .......................................8 Renewing economic democracy ...................20 Henry McCubbin Andy Cumbers The motor of neoliberalism ..........................10 Uncle Sam hasn’t lost the plot... ..................22 Bob Crow Derrick White Blair in the lead). That we got there under the propulsion of Comment this coalition is all we need to know to assume that this isn’t over. Blair has defiantly told us all that he is going to address o many it may feel like having a debate about the future shape the concerns of those who voted know by giving them a double Tof Europe is like having a debate about whether a dead mouse helping of what they didn’t want in the first place. He is like would have preferred cheese or chocolate. Surely the decisive a Victorian schoolmaster pouring twice as much cod liver oil rejections of the proposed European constitution in France and down the throat of the child who complained. Holland – along with the almost certain rejection
    [Show full text]
  • 1 - Scottishleftreview Issue 100 July/August 2017 2 - Scottishleftreview Issue 100 July/August 2017 Feedback
    1 - ScottishLeftReview Issue 100 July/August 2017 2 - ScottishLeftReview Issue 100 July/August 2017 feedback comment Where we are now ay didn’t quite end in June situation has afflicted the SNP – still an election campaign, under which but her mantra of providing the biggest party by seats and votes reporting had to be more balanced, M‘strong and stable’ in Scotland but looking and feeling a Labour’s pledge to govern for the leadership turned into the actuality lot like Labour after its involvement reviewsmany and not the few resonated of being ‘weak and wobbly’ while in the ‘Better Together’ campaign – widely. Jeremy Corbyn was more at Corbyn went from being (allegedly) somewhat dejected and on the back home and a much better performer unelectable and an electoral liability foot. at the countless mass street rallies into something akin to a conquering than in the Westminster chamber. hero – certainly if his reception at Serious left analysis must start And, Labour was able to create its UNISON annual conference and by asking two fundamental own direct link to voters, especially Glastonbury were anything to go by. questions, namely, why did Labour younger ones, via social media Just as with after the independence do much better than any of the without being reliant upon the referendum in September 2014, it polls (including its own) indicated mainstream media. Its organisation seemed that the vanquished were it would, and why did Labour not of activists especially via a dedicated actually the victors. But there are actually win? The exposure of app used by Momentum in also other historical parallels to Theresa May as weak and wobbly particular was also notable.
    [Show full text]
  • Ssv Voice NEWS by Sandra Webster, SSP Class Women to Come Together National Co-Spokesperson and Gain Confidence
    SSP conference: Scotland’s Stop TTIP: threat socialist party and guests to our democracy gathered in Edinburgh must be opposed • see page 12 • see page 9 £1 • issue 447 • 7th –20th November 2014 scottishsocialistvoice.wordpress.com PHOTO: Craig Maclean ScottishSocialistVoice.wordpress.com /ScottishSocialistVoice @ssv_voice NEWS by Sandra Webster, SSP class women to come together national co-spokesperson and gain confidence. That may be the confidence to speak at confer - OUR CONFERENCE of a ence, or to take on a role at a local few weeks ago was an inspiration. branch member. Democracy is bursting out all We are women who don’t need over the SSP. There was great de - a t-shirt to declare we are femi - bate and a great mix of older and nists and understand the politics newer comrades all there to sup - of why such goods should not be port each other. produced in a sweatshop where We had all come together to other women are exploited. begin the fightback and stake our There is often talk of the glass claim to share our vision of an in - ceiling but we are aware that we dependent socialist Scotland. SSSSPP wwoommeenn’’ss nneettwwoorrkk should not will step up on other Part of this was our unanimous women to break through it. Our decision to re-establish the feminism is born from many dif - women’s network—one of the LiEiFssT P L bAbTFaOaRMcc: sokkme wooest nncoa s tt drerleagaateccs arkkrive for SSP conference ferent backgrounds and experi - groups I believe will help build the ences but we will find common party, as well as being a safe place me with their achievements.
    [Show full text]
  • West Dunbartonshire Council Elections
    APPENDIX WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE COUNCIL ELECTION - 3 MAY 2012- RESULTS WARD 1 – LOMOND NO OF COUNCILLORS TO BE ELECTED - 3 Electorate Turnout % Total Valid Votes Quota 8,958 42.13 3695 924 Candidates Party Status Total votes prior to election or exclusion Jonathan McColl Scottish National Party (SNP) Elected Stage 7 1342 Ronald McColl Scottish National Party (SNP) Excluded Stage 6 647 George Rice Independent Excluded Stage 3 238 Louise Robertson Scottish Socialist Party Excluded Stage 2 167 Martin Rooney Scottish Labour Party Elected Stage 1 1243 Hazel Sorrell Scottish Labour Party Elected Stage 5 998 Brian McKenzie Walker Scottish Conservative and Unionist Excluded Stage 4 416 Elected to serve for the Lomond Ward: Jonathan McColl, Martin Rooney and Hazel Sorrell APPENDIX WARD 2 – LEVEN NO OF COUNCILLORS TO BE ELECTED - 4 Electorate Turnout % Total Valid Votes Quota 13,186 39.44 5,101 1,021 Candidates Party Status Total votes prior to election or exclusion Jim Bollan Scottish Socialist Party Elected Stage 1 1073 David Jardine Scottish Conservative and Unionist Excluded Stage 4 248 John Millar Scottish Labour Party Elected Stage 1 1622 Gail Robertson Scottish National Party (SNP) Elected Stage 1 1036 May Smillie Scottish National Party (SNP) Excluded Stage 6 549 Michelle Stewart Scottish Labour Party Elected Stage 7 1128 Archie Thomson Independent Excluded Stage 5 459 Elected to serve for the Leven Ward: Jim Bollan, John Millar, Gail Robertson and Michelle Stewart APPENDIX WARD 3 – DUMBARTON NO OF COUNCILLORS TO BE ELECTED - 4 Electorate
    [Show full text]
  • But Fair Wages, Benefits and Union
    Bedroom Tax: As the Voice went to press, the High Court in London ruled the Bedroom Tax did not unlawfully discriminate against disabled people. Here we look at the brutal reality of living in the shadow of eviction caused by the tax. • see page 5 £1 • issue 421 • 2nd - 15th August 2013 facebook.com/scottishsocialistvoice RETREAT: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said he was “embarrassed” by revelations that his Church’s own pension fund has links to Wonga - the payday lender he had said he wanted to put out of business NEITHER WONGA NBUTO FAIRR W ATGEHS, BEENE FBITS IANSD UHNIOON RPIGHS TS • See inside - pages 2, 6 & 7 facebook.com/ScottishSocialistVoice @ssv_voice NEWS Royal baby media blitz can’t bcy Keon Fenrgusocn eal ConDem claswosrld o f mwisery foar the r many alongside opulence for the DAY after day of royal baby few. overkill with colour This however is a world supplements, mindless TV endorsed enthusiastically by coverage and sick-making all the No parties and most “experts” gushing may fill the shamefully by the misnamed media but back on planet Labour Party. Scotland the reality of the Without the participation if ConDem class war continues. Labour in Better Together, the Elsewhere in this Voice we No camp would be exposed look at the continuing impact as the pro-bosses, anti- of the war on welfare and worker bunch they are. wages which is slashing That’s why the Yes living standards and driving campaign needs to ruthlessly increasing numbers into the expose the fact that Labour arms of loan sharks.
    [Show full text]
  • EXIT the BRITISH ROAD SCOTLAND 18/ 9 Make Tories History People Not Profit Scrap Trident Choose Your Government
    Armed police: cops with Rejecting UKIP: guns could routinely be on pics from the demo the streets in the Highlands in Edinburgh • see page 11 • see page 2 £1 • issue 438 • 16th –29th May 2014 facebook.com/scottishsocialistvoice EXIT THE BRITISH ROAD SCOTLAND 18/ 9 Make Tories history People not profit Scrap Trident Choose your government WESTMINSTER More fat cat rule Austerity & cuts Bombs not jobs Rejected Tories rule AS THE Tories take the lead over Labour in the UK and showing growing Yes support are suppressed and both promise more austerity, nuclear missiles and savage evidence mounts that the scares and smears of Project attacks on the poor, the prospects offered by staying in Fear are failing. the United Kingdom looks less and less attractive. From the Oxford Union to the trade unions, the Scottish No wonder the No camp faces mounting panic. Socialist Party is driving home the message that Uncharismatic Better Together boss Alistair Darling independence opens the way to a more just, democratic faces the push, Scottish Office polls – paid for by us – Scotland, putting people before profit. facebook.com/ScottishSocialistVoice @ssv_voice OPPOSING UKIP INDY LEFT SAYS NO: the pro-independence Scottish left descended on Edinburgh Corn Exchange on the evening of Friday 9 May to declare Scotland a UKIP-free zone and tell Nigel Farage and his nazi Scottish Defence League and Britain First minders that their politics of hate and lies will never be welcome in our country PHOTOS: Craig Maclean (top left, bottom right) and Scott Macdonald 2 • Scottish Socialist Voice • issue 438 EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson TWO YEARS into their relentlessly negative campaign – codenamed, in best Biggles style, as Operation Fear – early signs Growing smell of fear of a change of tone if not message are emerging from the bowels of Better Together.
    [Show full text]