Newly-emerged facts regarding Dundee City Council’s bid to demolish 26 viable flats on Blackness Road reveal how councillors were presented with deeply misleading information on both the cost of saving the flats and on the views of residents. Background The council has…

There was a great turnout at Dundee City Chambers yesterday to oppose plans to impose split-shift contracts on Dundee City Council home care workers. Public pressure and the threat of industrial action convinced the council to go back to discussions and a fresh report before making a decision.

Dundee City Council is moving forward with plans to demolish 26 flats on Blackness Road in spite of calls for a rethink from local residents and the council’s own former housing convener. Background Most (16) of the threatened flats are council flats,…

Dundee SSP was proud to take part in today’s anti-fascist demonstration in Dundee city centre, standing in solidarity with the LGBT+ community after a local LGBT+ youth group was targeted by a group of self-identified Nazis.

Last year, I wrote an article for the Dundee SSP warning of a rise in homophobia alongside the rise of right-wing extremist politics. Fast forward a year later and the state of affairs for LGBT people across Europe and the United States…

by Pádraig Durnin, Dundee SSP education officer Dundee’s socialists are now well into election mode. The SSP is running local activist and President-elect of Abertay Students’ Association Tam Wilson in the West End, and are working in alliance with ‘Dundee Against Cuts’…

The Scottish Socialist Party is committed to ending fuel poverty in this country. At the centre of that commitment is our promise to return the energy companies back to public ownership. Only by managing Scotland’s wealth of energy resources for people, not…

SSP members, community activists and members of the public attended our recent public meeting on the case for an independent socialist Scotland. The meeting in Dundee’s Chamber East function suite heard from former Labour MP and MSP John McAllion, SSP co-chair Natalie…

The short-sightedness of Dundee City Council’s decision to close Menzieshill High School – in the face of strong opposition from parents, pupils and community campaigners – has been repeatedly exposed since the start of the new school year. Local newspapers have reported…

These past few years can only be viewed as something of a ‘wake-up bomb’ for a generation who have largely been unaffected and disenchanted with the political elite. In the wake of the Scottish and EU referendums and the latest in (the almost…

Newly-emerged facts regarding Dundee City Council’s bid to demolish 26 viable flats on Blackness Road reveal how councillors were presented with deeply misleading information on both the cost of saving the flats and on the views of residents. Background The council has…

Dundee City Council is moving forward with plans to demolish 26 flats on Blackness Road in spite of calls for a rethink from local residents and the council’s own former housing convener. Background Most (16) of the threatened flats are council flats,…

Last year, I wrote an article for the Dundee SSP warning of a rise in homophobia alongside the rise of right-wing extremist politics. Fast forward a year later and the state of affairs for LGBT people across Europe and the United States…

by Pádraig Durnin, Dundee SSP education officer Dundee’s socialists are now well into election mode. The SSP is running local activist and President-elect of Abertay Students’ Association Tam Wilson in the West End, and are working in alliance with ‘Dundee Against Cuts’…

The Scottish Socialist Party is committed to ending fuel poverty in this country. At the centre of that commitment is our promise to return the energy companies back to public ownership. Only by managing Scotland’s wealth of energy resources for people, not…

We are hosting a discussion on "The decline of the Labour Party", the reasons behind it, and the opportunities this creates for socialists in Scotland.