Promoted by
Pam Currie, National Secretary
on behalf of the Scottish Socialist Party, 70 Stanley Street, Glasgow, G41
1JB
Have you ever wondered?
If Shetland is so rich, how come at least 7% of the population is living in economic or social deprivation?
We are the Scottish Socialists
and we fight in hope
by Roz Paterson
"Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation" - Alasdair Gray
We cut against the grain of the political consensus, refusing to accept
that 'in the real world', millions must live in poverty for a few to live
in unimaginable wealth, that weapons of mass destruction must be moored in
the Clyde to keep us safe from weapons of mass destruction, that wars mean
peace, and a diminishing democracy delivers us greater security.
We believe we can make a better nation, where every state school child eats
a nutritious, free lunch every day of the working week, where pensioners
receive a decent income with access to well-funded, free public services,
where families are housed in warm, secure homes near green spaces and schools
and shops, where refugees are welcomed and given the right to work and make
a new life here, to the benefit of us all, where war is an ugly memory, energy
is sustainable and publicly-owned and a nationalised train, bus and ferry
service links every community in Scotland, from the heart of Glasgow to the
shores of the Outer Hebrides.
But we seek to be more than just an independent, socialist republic, free
from the rusting chains of the British empire and Tony Blair's corrupt war
machine. We seek to reach out to others in struggle, from the Palestinians
in Gaza to the trade unionists in Colombia, the political prisoners of Burma
to the benighted indigenous peoples of Australia.
We fight in hope, and we work hard.
In 2003, we returned six MSPs to Holyrood; the biggest parliamentary breakthrough
of any left party in Europe in a generation. We use that parliamentary
representation to highlight grassroots campaigns, for free school meals,
the scrapping of prescription charges, opposition to the illegal invasion
of Iraq, the plight of low-income households, of children growing up in a
world of consumerism and dense traffic and commodified education, of asylum-seekers
locked up in former prisons, of all who are left out in the cold by the market
system that puts a price on everything, yet values nothing.
We fight in hope, for people everywhere.
Our MSPs take only the workers' wage, donating the rest to the party; we
have no career politicians in our ranks.
Our focus is always at street-level, our aim being to build a mass movement
to promote and develop the ideas of socialism. To put the idea of real equality,
real social justice, back on the agenda. To make this a better world for
the upcoming generation.
Join us in the only war worth fighting - against poverty and greed, and for
humanity and peace. People, not profit.
Join the SSP and join with thousands of other ordinary people like you fighting for a better world.
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