page_title: Richie Venton
section_title: Scottish Socialist Party
hierarchical_section_title: Richie Venton / Political career / Scottish Socialist Party
caption_attribution_description: English: Richie Venton (right) in Glasgow
context_page_description: Richie Venton is a Scottish trade unionist and political activist. As of 2018, he is one of two Scottish representatives on the National Executive Council of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and the national trade union organiser of the Scottish Socialist Party. A former Militant organiser and a founding member of the SSP, he was a high-profile activist in the Scottish independence referendum campaign and spoke at a number of public meetings and debates.
context_section_description: Richie Venton is the SSP's national workplace organiser and regional organiser for the West of Scotland. In 2009, Venton organised the Glasgow Save Our Schools (SOS) Campaign, which protested plans to close 11 primary schools and nine nurseries. The campaign involved a sit-in by mothers staged at two closure-threatened schools.
caption: Richie Venton (right) in Glasgow, 18 October 2014
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