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Scottish Socialist Party

Index Scottish Socialist Party

The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP; Pàrtaidh Sòisealach na h-Alba; Scots Socialist Pairtie) is a left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an independent socialist Scottish republic. [1]

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  1. 169 relations: Abolition of Poindings and Warrant Sales Act 2001, Afghanistan, Air pollution, Alliance for Workers' Liberty, Allyson Pollock, Asylum seeker, Austerity, Bedroom tax, Better Together (campaign), Bill Bonnar, Black market, Blair Jenkins, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, Break the Chains (book), Cannabis, Colin Fox (politician), Conservative Party (UK), Council Tax, COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Declaration of Calton Hill, Democratic socialism, Deportation, Detention (imprisonment), Direct action, Drug detoxification, Drug liberalization, Drug rehabilitation, Drumchapel, Dundee, East Kilbride, Easterhouse, Electoral alliance, Estonia, European Union, Faslane Peace Camp, First ScotRail, Fracking, Frances Curran, Free public transport, Glasgow, Glasgow (Scottish Parliament electoral region), Glasgow East (UK Parliament constituency), Gordon Brown, Govan, Greater London Council, Greenhouse gas emissions, Heroin, History of the Scottish Socialist Party, HMNB Clyde, Holyrood (magazine), ... Expand index (119 more) »

Abolition of Poindings and Warrant Sales Act 2001

The Abolition of Poindings and Warrant Sales Act 2001 was an Act of the Scottish Parliament to abolish the previous practice in which a debtor's goods are priced (poinding) in preparation for the enforced sale of the debtor's possessions (warrant sale).

See Scottish Socialist Party and Abolition of Poindings and Warrant Sales Act 2001

Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

See Scottish Socialist Party and Afghanistan

Air pollution

Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials.

See Scottish Socialist Party and Air pollution

Alliance for Workers' Liberty

The Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), also known as Workers' Liberty, is a Trotskyist group in Britain and Australia, which has been identified with the theorist Sean Matgamna throughout its history.

See Scottish Socialist Party and Alliance for Workers' Liberty

Allyson Pollock

Allyson Pollock is a consultant in public health medicine and was the Director of the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University.

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Asylum seeker

An asylum seeker is a person who leaves their country of residence, enters another country, and makes in that other country a formal application for the right of asylum according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 14.

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Austerity

In economic policy, austerity is a set of political-economic policies that aim to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts, tax increases, or a combination of both.

See Scottish Socialist Party and Austerity

Bedroom tax

The bedroom tax is a United Kingdom welfare policy whereby tenants living in public housing (also called council or social housing) with rooms deemed "spare" experience a reduction in Housing Benefit, resulting in them being obliged to fund this reduction from their incomes, move home, or face rent arrears and potential eviction by their landlord (be that the local authority or a housing association).

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Better Together (campaign)

Better Together was the successful campaign for a No vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, advocating Scotland continuing to be part of the United Kingdom.

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Bill Bonnar

Bill Bonnar is a founding member of the Scottish Socialist Party.

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Black market

A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules.

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Blair Jenkins

Blair Jenkins (born 1957 in Elgin, Scotland) is a Scottish former journalist who served as chief executive of Yes Scotland in the campaign for a "Yes" vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a nonviolent Palestinian-led movement promoting boycotts, divestments, and economic sanctions against Israel.

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Break the Chains (book)

Break the Chains is a work of political non-fiction written by Scottish socialist and trade unionist Richie Venton and published in 2015 by the Scottish Socialist Party.

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Cannabis

Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.

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Colin Fox (politician)

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.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Council Tax

Council Tax is a local taxation system used in England, Scotland and Wales.

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COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom

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Declaration of Calton Hill

The Declaration of Calton Hill can refer to several political statements, the most notable being a call in 2004 for an independent Scottish republic, led by the Scottish Socialist Party.

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Democratic socialism

Democratic socialism is a centre-left to left-wing set of political philosophies that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-management within a market socialist, decentralised planned, or democratic centrally planned socialist economy.

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Deportation

Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a territory.

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Detention (imprisonment)

Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing their freedom or liberty at that time.

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Direct action

Direct action is a term for economic and political behavior in which participants use agency—for example economic or physical power—to achieve their goals.

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Drug detoxification

Drug detoxification (informally, detox) is variously construed or interpreted as a type of "medical" intervention or technique in regards to a physical dependence mediated by a drug; as well as the process and experience of a withdrawal syndrome or any of the treatments for acute drug overdose (toxidrome).

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Drug liberalization

Drug liberalization is a drug policy process of decriminalizing, legalizing, or repealing laws that prohibit the production, possession, sale, or use of prohibited drugs.

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Drug rehabilitation

Drug rehabilitation is the process of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as cannabis, cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines.

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Drumchapel

Drumchapel (Druim a' Chapaill), known locally as 'The Drum', is a district in the north-west of the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dundee; Dùn Dè or Dùn Dèagh) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland.

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East Kilbride

East Kilbride (Cille Bhrìghde an Ear) is the largest town in South Lanarkshire in Scotland, and the country's sixth-largest locality by population.

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Easterhouse

Easterhouse is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, east of the city centre on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire as part of an expansion of Glasgow before the Second World War.

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Electoral alliance

An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand in elections.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Faslane Peace Camp

Faslane Peace Camp is a permanent peace camp sited alongside Faslane Naval base in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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First ScotRail

First ScotRail was a train operating company in Scotland owned by FirstGroup.

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Fracking

Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid.

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Frances Curran

Frances Curran (born 21 May 1961) is a former co-chair of the Scottish Socialist Party.

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Free public transport

Free public transport, often called fare-free public transit or zero-fare public transport, is public transport which is fully funded by means other than collecting fares from passengers.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Glasgow (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Glasgow is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament.

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Glasgow East (UK Parliament constituency)

Glasgow East is a constituency of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, located in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Gordon Brown

James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010.

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Govan

Govan (Cumbric: Gwovan; Scots: Gouan; Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of southwest Glasgow, Scotland.

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Greater London Council

The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986.

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Greenhouse gas emissions

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities intensify the greenhouse effect.

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Heroin

Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver somniferum plant; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.

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History of the Scottish Socialist Party

In Scotland, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is a left-wing political party.

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HMNB Clyde

His Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde (HMNB Clyde; also HMS Neptune), primarily sited at Faslane on the Gare Loch, is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth).

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Holyrood (magazine)

Holyrood is a fortnightly magazine devoted to current affairs and politics.

See Scottish Socialist Party and Holyrood (magazine)

Household energy insecurity

Household energy insecurity refers to a household's inability to meet its energy needs.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Identity Cards Act 2006

The Identity Cards Act 2006 (c. 15) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that was repealed in 2011.

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Jim Sillars

James Sillars (born 4 October 1937) is a Scottish politician and campaigner for Scottish independence.

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John Maclean (Scottish socialist)

John Maclean (24 August 1879 – 30 November 1923) was a Scottish schoolteacher and revolutionary socialist of the Red Clydeside era.

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John McAllion

John McAllion (born 13 February 1948) is a campaigner for the Scottish Socialist Party, as well as a former Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP), and convenor of Tayside Regional Council.

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Labour for Independence

Labour for Independence was a political organisation for Scottish Labour supporters who were in favour of Scottish independence.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Leasehold estate

A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant has rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (colloquially known as the Lib Dems) are a liberal political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1988.

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Liberton/Gilmerton (ward)

Liberton/Gilmerton is one of the seventeen wards used to elect members of the City of Edinburgh Council.

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List of British republicans

Supporters of republicanism in the United Kingdom—replacing the country's monarchy with a republic—typically favour an elected head of state to a constitutional monarch who heads the British royal family.

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List of Scottish Socialist Party members of the Scottish Parliament

This is a list of Scottish Socialist Party MSPs.

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Local government in Scotland

Local government in Scotland comprises thirty-two local authorities, commonly referred to as councils.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.

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Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP; Ball Pàrlamaid na h-Alba, BPA; Memmer o the Scots Pairliament, MSP) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.

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Military Families Against the War

Military Families Against the War (MFAW) is an organisation of families of servicemen in the United Kingdom created to campaign for British troops to be withdrawn from Iraq.

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Monarchy of the United Kingdom

The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the head of state, with their powers regulated by the British Constitution.

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National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.

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National Minimum Wage Act 1998

The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c. 39) creates a minimum wage across the United Kingdom.

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National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers

The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (commonly known as the RMT) is a British trade union covering the transport sector.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism, also neo-liberalism, is both a political philosophy and a term used to signify the late-20th-century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism.

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New Labour

New Labour is the political philosophy that dominated the history of the British Labour Party from the mid- to late 1990s until 2010 under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

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Newcastle University

Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England.

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News of the World

The News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011.

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NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: SNS na h-Alba), sometimes styled NHSScotland, is the publicly–funded healthcare system in Scotland and one of the four systems that make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.

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Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon (born 19 July 1970) is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2014 to 2023.

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Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012

The Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 was an Act of the Scottish Parliament which created new criminal offences concerning sectarian behaviour at football games.

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Palestinians

Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.

See Scottish Socialist Party and Palestinians

Parking meter

A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park a vehicle in a particular place for a limited amount of time.

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Poll tax (Great Britain)

The Community Charge, commonly known as the poll tax, was a system of local taxation introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government whereby each taxpayer was taxed the same fixed sum (a "poll tax" or "head tax"), with the precise amount being set by each local authority.

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Pound sterling

Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.

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Progressive tax

A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases.

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Proletarian internationalism

Proletarian internationalism, sometimes referred to as international socialism, is the perception of all proletarian revolutions as being part of a single global class struggle rather than separate localized events.

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Radical Independence Campaign

The Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) is a grassroots organisation which advocates for Scotland to become a republic, independent of the United Kingdom.

See Scottish Socialist Party and Radical Independence Campaign

Róisín McLaren

Róisín Mary Bridget McLaren (born 12 October 1994) is a former national co-spokesperson of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) from 2018 to 2021.

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Republic

A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.

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Richie Venton

Richie Venton (born 1953) is a Scottish trade unionist and political activist.

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RISE – Scotland's Left Alliance

RISE – Scotland's Left Alliance was a left-wing electoral alliance and political party created ahead of the 2016 Scottish Parliament general election.

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Rose Gentle

Rose Gentle is the mother of Gordon Gentle, a 19-year-old from Pollok who was killed in 2004 by a roadside bomb in Basra during the Iraq War.

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Rosie Kane

Rosemary "Rosie" Kane (née McGarvey; born 5 June 1961) is a Scottish Socialist Party politician.

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Rutherglen (UK Parliament constituency)

Rutherglen is a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 2024.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.

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School meal

A school meal (whether it is a breakfast, lunch, or evening meal) is a meal provided to students and sometimes teachers at a school, typically in the middle or beginning of the school day.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scotland's Future

Scotland's Future is a government white paper published on 26 November 2013 by the Scottish Government under First Minister Alex Salmond.

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Scottish Government

The Scottish Government (Riaghaltas na h-Alba) is the devolved government of Scotland.

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Scottish Greens

The Scottish Greens (also known as the Scottish Green Party; Pàrtaidh Uaine na h-Alba) are a green political party in Scotland. Scottish Socialist Party and Scottish Greens are political parties supporting universal basic income.

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Scottish independence

Scottish independence (Neo-eisimeileachd na h-Alba; Scots unthirldom) is the idea of Scotland regaining its independence and once again becoming a sovereign state, independent from the United Kingdom.

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Scottish Liberal Democrats

The Scottish Liberal Democrats (Pàrtaidh Libearal Deamocratach na h-Alba; Scots Leeberal Democrats) is a liberal, federalist political party in Scotland, part of UK Liberal Democrats.

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Scottish Militant Labour

Scottish Militant Labour (SML) was a TrotskyistDave Osler,Tribune, 30 July 1993 political party operating in Scotland for most of the 1990s and was part of the Committee for a Workers' International.

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Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party (SNP; Scots National Pairty, Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic party.

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Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots Pairlament) is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Scotland.

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Scottish republicanism

Scottish republicanism (Poblachdas na h-Alba) is an ideology based on the belief that Scotland should be a republic; the nation is currently a monarchy as part of the United Kingdom.

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Scottish Socialist Party

The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP; Pàrtaidh Sòisealach na h-Alba; Scots Socialist Pairtie) is a left-wing political party campaigning for the establishment of an independent socialist Scottish republic. Scottish Socialist Party and Scottish Socialist Party are political parties supporting universal basic income.

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Scottish Socialist Voice

The Scottish Socialist Voice is a fortnightly political newspaper in Scotland, published by the Scottish Socialist Party.

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Scottish Socialist Youth

Scottish Socialist Youth (SSY) is a non-partisan anti-capitalist organisation which stands for the creation of an independent, socialist Scotland.

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Scottish Workers' Republican Party

The Scottish Workers Republican Party (SWRP) was formed by the Scottish Marxist activist John Maclean (1879–1923) in 1923.

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Smith Commission

The Smith Commission was announced by Prime Minister David Cameron on 19 September 2014 in the wake of the 'No' vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

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SMS

Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems.

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Socialism

Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

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Socialist Appeal (UK, 1992)

Socialist Appeal was the British section of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT), founded in 1992 alongside the IMT by supporters of Ted Grant and Alan Woods after they were expelled from the Militant tendency of the Labour Party.

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Socialist economics

Socialist economics comprises the economic theories, practices and norms of hypothetical and existing socialist economic systems.

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Solidarity (Scotland)

Solidarity – Scotland's Socialist Movement was a political party in Scotland.

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Streaming media

Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.

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Substance dependence

Substance dependence, also known as drug dependence, is a biopsychological situation whereby an individual's functionality is dependent on the necessitated re-consumption of a psychoactive substance because of an adaptive state that has developed within the individual from psychoactive substance consumption that results in the experience of withdrawal and that necessitates the re-consumption of the drug.

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Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital and most populous city of Estonia.

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The Case for an Independent Socialist Scotland

The Case for an Independent Socialist Scotland is a pamphlet written by Colin Fox and published by the Scottish Socialist Party in the run-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

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Tommy Sheridan

Thomas Sheridan (born 7 March 1964) is a Scottish politician who served as convenor of Solidarity from 2019 to 2021.

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Tony Blair

Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

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Traffic collision

A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.

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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was a proposed trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States, with the aim of promoting trade and multilateral economic growth.

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Trident (missile)

The Trident missile is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) equipped with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRV).

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Trident (UK nuclear programme)

Trident, also known as the Trident nuclear programme or Trident nuclear deterrent, covers the development, procurement and operation of nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom and their means of delivery.

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Union of the Crowns

The Union of the Crowns (Aonadh nan Crùintean; Union o the Crouns) was the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of the Kingdom of England as James I and the practical unification of some functions (such as overseas diplomacy) of the two separate realms under a single individual on 24 March 1603.

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Unionism in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, unionism is a political stance favouring the continued unity of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as one sovereign state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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United Kingdom government austerity programme

The United Kingdom government austerity programme was a fiscal policy that was adopted for a period in the early 21st century following the Great Recession.

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Universal basic income

Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a minimum income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment, i.e., without a means test or need to work.

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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.

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Weapon of mass destruction

A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people or cause great damage to artificial structures (e.g., buildings), natural structures (e.g., mountains), or the biosphere.

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Weekly Worker

The Weekly Worker is a newspaper published by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) (CPGB-PCC).

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West Dunbartonshire

West Dunbartonshire (Wast Dunbairtonshire; Siorrachd Dhùn Breatann an Iar) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland.

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Working class

The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.

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Yes Scotland

Yes Scotland was the organisation representing the parties, organisations, and individuals campaigning for a Yes vote in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

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1999 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

The 1999 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's part of the European Parliament election 1999.

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1999 Scottish Parliament election

The first election to the devolved Scottish Parliament, to fill 129 seats, took place on 6 May 1999.

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2001 United Kingdom general election

The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the House of Commons.

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2003 Scottish Parliament election

The 2003 Scottish Parliament election was the second election of members to the Scottish Parliament.

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2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

The 2004 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's part of the wider 2004 European Parliament election which was held between 10 and 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union.

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2005 Scottish Socialist Party leadership election

The 2005 Scottish Socialist Party leadership election was triggered by the resignation of Tommy Sheridan in November 2004.

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2005 United Kingdom general election

The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 5 May 2005, to elect 646 members to the House of Commons.

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2007 Scottish Parliament election

The 2007 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the Scottish Parliament.

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2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

The 2009 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election, the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009.

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2010 United Kingdom general election

The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 May 2010, to elect Members of Parliament (or MPs) to the House of Commons.

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2011 Scottish Parliament election

The 2011 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2011 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.

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2014 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

The 2014 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2014 European Parliament election, held on Thursday 22 May 2014, coinciding with the 2014 local elections in England and Northern Ireland.

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2014 Gaza War

The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge (translit), and Battle of the Withered Grain (translit), was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory that has been governed by Hamas since 2007.

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2014 Scottish independence referendum

A referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom was held in Scotland on 18 September 2014.

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2015 United Kingdom general election

The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 May 2015 to elect 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.

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2015 United Kingdom general election in Scotland

A general election was held in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2015 and all 59 seats in Scotland were contested under the first-past-the-post, single-member district electoral system.

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2016 Scottish Parliament election

The 2016 Scottish parliament election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2016 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.

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2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum

On 23 June 2016, a referendum took place in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar to ask the electorate whether the country should remain a member of, or leave, the European Union (EU).

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2017 United Kingdom general election

The 2017 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 8 June 2017, two years after the previous general election in 2015; it was the first since 1992 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections.

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2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom

The 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election.

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2019 United Kingdom general election

The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 12 December 2019, with 47,567,752 registered voters entitled to vote to elect 650 Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.

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2021 Scottish Parliament election

The 2021 Scottish Parliament election took place on 11 May 2021, under the provisions of the Scotland Act 1998.

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2022 City of Edinburgh Council election

Elections to the City of Edinburgh Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections.

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2022 Glasgow City Council election

Elections to Glasgow City Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections.

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2022 North Ayrshire Council election

Elections to North Ayrshire Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections.

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2022 North Lanarkshire Council election

Elections to North Lanarkshire Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections.

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2022 Renfrewshire Council election

The 2022 Renfrewshire Council elections took place on 5 May 2022, as part of the 2022 Scottish local elections on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local authorities were up for election.

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2022 Scottish local elections

The 2022 Scottish local elections were held on 5 May 2022, as part of the 2022 United Kingdom local elections.

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2023 Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election

A by-election took place in the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Rutherglen and Hamilton West on 5 October 2023, following the recall of incumbent MP Margaret Ferrier.

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2024 United Kingdom general election

The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024, to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Socialist_Party

Also known as Katie Bonnar, SSP United Left, Scottish Socialist Party United Left, United Left (Scotland).

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