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The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is a left-wing [6] [7] political party campaigning for the establishment of an independent socialist Scottish republic. The party was founded in 1998. [ 8 ] It campaigns for Scottish independence, against cuts to public services and welfare and for democratic public ownership of the economy.
Colin Fox (born 17 June 1959) is a Scottish socialist politician and left-wing activist, serving as national co-spokesperson of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) since 2005. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothians region from 2003 to 2007.
It includes all members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) who have sat as Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) members of the Scottish Parliament. A total of six people have served as SSP MPs. Tommy Sheridan was elected at the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, and five more SSP MSP were elected at the 2003 election.
The forerunner of the SSP was the Scottish Socialist Alliance (SSA), a coalition of left-wing bodies in Scotland formed in 1996. [1] [2] Around 400 people attended the SSA's launch rally in Glasgow in February 1996, which attracted socialists and communists from various party backgrounds. [3]
In 1996, he was a founding member of the Scottish Socialist Alliance (SSA) and stood as its candidate in Glasgow Anniesland in the 1997 general election. [6] He became a founding member of the Scottish Socialist Party in 1998, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and stood as the candidate for Glasgow Rutherglen in the 2003 Scottish Parliament election , where he won ...
The Scottish Liberal Democrats are the Scottish wing of the Great Britain-wide Liberal Democrats party. It is a centrist, social liberal and British unionist party. The British Liberal Democrats they are part of were formed in 1988 when the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party merged.
Scottish Socialist Party (3 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Socialist parties in Scotland" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) was an organisation of former Independent Labour Party members who wished to remain part of the Labour Party after their former party disaffiliated. By the early 1930s, there was strong support in the Independent Labour Party (ILP) for disaffiliation from the Labour Party .