The Scottish Socialist Party have announce the full lists for all 8 regions of the Scottish Parliament. Everyone in Scotland will be given the chance to vote for the SSP on May 5th 2011.

The North East List is as follows

1) Angela Gorrie

2) Euan Benzie

3) Alan Graham

4) Soraya Kasim

To find out more about Angela and all other of the candidates in the list for the other regions of Scotland click here.

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Hi all,

As usual, the meeting today will take place at 7.30pm in the bar of the Belmont Cinema. It’s a really important meeting, as we have our first hustings debate on the 12th of April. We’ll be going over the party platform, previous election broadcasts and the manifesto from the General Election of 2010 and talking about how we can apply this to our Holyrood election campaign. We have two branch members on the North East Regional List, so come out and support!

Thanks,

Aberdeen SSP

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As the polls open tomorrow, we are urging everyone in Aberdeen North and in the other constituencies we are contesting  to vote for the Scottish Socialist Party, and to support us after the general election, if you agree with our key messages.

Most importantly, we say that the main parties contesting this election are all planning to embark on massive spending cuts and attacks on living standards after the general election in order to cover the budget deficit and pay back the money spent to bail out the banks during the’ credit crunch’. We have criticised this approach by all the parties as offering the voters a set of non-choices in this election, as whoever forms the next government will cut spending, continue the war in Afghanistan and renew Trident nuclear missiles. Instead, we have been arguing that if we scrap Trident, bring the troops home from Afghanistan, close tax havens, raise corporation tax, and tax the super-rich, then instead of us being made to pay for capitalism’s crisis, we can protect public spending and redistribute wealth to raise living standards across the board.

Our full policy stance can be viewed in the ‘General Election 2010′ section of this website, however along with the above argument we have stated our position as an anti-war and anti-nuclear socialist party who support a green socialist republic in Scotland, with  equitably shared wealth in society and public services, including free public transport, which serve people’s needs rather than private profit.

It is after the election that the fight against public spending cuts and for a socialist alternative to capitlaism’s crisis will begin. If you want to help us to build the mass movement required to successfully defend our public services and standard of living, and to promote this socialist alternative, then now is the time to support us, vote for us, and join us.

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Yesterday saw a full day of campaigning from Aberdeen SSP, which began in the student Shared Planet cafe at Aberdeen University during the afternoon, before an organisational meeting in the Belmont cinema downstairs cafe with leaflet folding and political discussion in the evening, and a rendition of SSP Aberdeen North candidate Ewan Robertson’s campaign song (see the YouTube link in a previous post) from the stage at Drummonds cafe at night!

The issues we were discussing most were the SSP policy of free public transport, which would aim to reduce congestion and emissions though increasing the use of  a greatly expanded public transport service, encouraging people to leave their cars and opt for the bus/train/ferry. This policy would also act as a financial relief for millions of Scots, which through spending the saved money elsewhere would also act as a positive boost to the economy.

We were also discussing our key points over rejecting the argument that planned cuts in public spending are necessary, and that the majority of the population should not have to suffer for an economic crisis not of their making, as well as reiterating our committment to withdrawing the troops from Afghanistan.

Overall, it was a fun and energetic day of campaigning! If you want to come along and find out more about our policies and ideas, we will be in the centre of town (most likely in St. Nicholas square) from 12pm this Saturday.

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