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.
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…
A social event hosted by the Dundee branch of the Scottish Socialist Party commemorated 38 years since the death of Mary Brooksbank, a prominent woman, socialist and trade unionist who spent most of her life in Dundee. The Mary Brooksbank Social: Celebrating…
Members of the Scottish Socialist Party yesterday joined a demonstration in Dundee calling for the resignation of David Cameron in the wake of recent revelations about his tax affairs. The “Get Cameron Out” demonstration was attended and supported by SSP members Connor, Helen and Agnes and a broad range of activists from across the left. Connor Beaton, branch secretary of Dundee SSP and lead RISE candidate in North East Scotland, was invited to speak from the platform. He said: I just spent a week away in Belfast. The most interesting person that I met there was a lawyer by the name of…
Two leading members of the Scottish Socialist Party’s Dundee branch will stand for election to Holyrood this May as candidates for RISE - Scotland’s Left Alliance. Here they explain, in their own words, why they are fighting to win seats. Connor Beaton…
