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The Draining of Scotland: Data Centres, Buried Reports, and the Nature’s Rights Bill

​They’re draining our oil- the next capitalist goal is to crush Scottish Independence for our water… Would you support giving nature legal rights to fight back against data centres in court? It sounds like a radical idea, but when you look at how the Westminster establishment is selling off our basic resources to tech billionaires, […]

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We Are Many by Val Waldron

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. At the time of writing the polls are barely open, but by the end of the Summer it’s quite likely, according to polls and pundits, that Burnham will be PM. If Successful in Makerfield today, every indication is that he will be putting his shoulder to the […]

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No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs: They’ve ALWAYS wanted us to fight sideways.

By Amy McIntyre We know our history. The Irish were blamed for problems they didn’t cause. They fled “famine”, occupation, persecution & poverty, only to face signs reading: “No Blacks. No Dogs. No Irish.” Don’t repeat that. The ruling class always need a scapegoat. Yesterday it was the Irish, Catholics, Mods, Pakistanis, single mothers, “benefit […]

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Labour’s Latest Mistake: Stop Banning Journalists

Democracy is on it’s deathbed. By our Political Correspondent. The impulse to silence dissent is becoming a fixture of our political culture. When voices challenge the established consensus, the instinct is often to slam the door rather than engage with the argument. The recent restriction to the entry of commentators like Hasan Piker and Cenk […]

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Blair is a piece of sh*t…

By Sam Hamad I can’t stand any aspect of Labour, but Tony Blair is such a particular and outstanding cunt. It’s not just that he had to get his cunt nose involved with the Gaza genocide, namely through Trump’s pro-Israel ethnic cleansing embezzlement vehicle known as the “Board of Peace”, or that he advocated that […]

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Farage’s Choice Morsels- “Christians,” and Gossiping Liars…

By Indybag For people who run about the place raising flegs with so called christian crosses, Reform, Raise the Flag, Restore and the various capital R right wing groups seem to miss out massive chunks of the Bible that cut right through modern digital noise. Long before billionaires bought up social media networks and right-wing […]

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A Better Activism

By Neil Scott I took this of the brilliant activist Violet Fox 11 years ago- I recorded an interview with Violet for a podcast. This was a time I was doing my bit to widen the SSP’s contact with important activism across Scotland- support without controlling- something I admired about the idea of the SSP- […]

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Nu-Thatcherism to the Putinist Model

The political entity currently known as Reform UK presents itself as a radical departure from the established order, yet a closer inspection reveals it to be a rebranding of the most regressive elements of British political history. It is the ideological heir to the hard-right Thatcherism of the 1980s and the exclusionary nationalism of Enoch […]