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The current model ruthlessly mines minerals, burns oil, lies about car pollution and floods our seas with plastic

Comment Ditching market-led model would benefit climate and the working-class

THE Scottish Socialist Party and our paper the Scottish Socialist Voice fully accept the scientific evidence on climate change and agree that we are facing a climate emergency.

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The average rent in the private sector is £650 a month – and that gets you little more than a small flat

Why have our politicians failed to solve Scotland’s housing crisis?

FEW would deny Scotland faces a housing crisis which inflicts real hardship on hundreds of thousands of families every day. With 200,000 people on the housing waiting list, it will take them 20 years, at the current rate, to secure decent accommodation – since fewer than 1000 new homes were built for rent in the public sector last year.

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