Scottish Socialist Voice

The Great War Xmas Truce, 1914: Not a miracle at Christmas, but a rebellion

December 22, 2025

by Natalie Reid, SSP Co-Spokesperson MOST OF US have heard the famous stories of the football matches played between British and German troops on Christmas Day in 1914. This ...

Privatisation is the cause of the crisis in the NHS… not the cure

December 16, 2025

By Colin Fox, SSP Co-Spokesperson IN HER RECENT BUDGET, Rachel Reeves declared that “ending the crisis in the NHS” was one of her top priorities. And well she might, ...

Class Politics: the critical antidote to the far-right virus

December 10, 2025

By Ken Ferguson AS THIS LAST VOICE of 2025 goes to press, the air is thick with claim and counter-claim on a possible pact, alliance or even merger between the Tory Party — ...

Trust, Politics, and Power: The BBC at a Crossroads

November 21, 2025

by Paul Holleran, former NUJ Scottish Organiser A THRIVING, DIVERSE broadcasting and press media — not manipulated by the rich and powerful — is essential to democracy in ...

Spin, Neglect, and Anger: How Labour’s Failures Fuel the Far Right

November 21, 2025

By Ken Ferguson AS THE VOICE goes to press, the grumbling volcano of fear and resentment sparked among Labour MPs by the party’s opinion poll plunge to all-time historic ...

Education is in a special class of crisis

November 17, 2025

(Photo: Craig Maclean) Lecturers and other staff at the University of Edinburgh are beginning a further three days of strike action in a dispute over the university’s plans ...

Wildfires shine a light on fire and rescue service cuts

April 22, 2025

The outbreak of numerous wildfires in Scotland has been news headlines in recent weeks. SSP national trade union organiser Richie Venton spoke about this to Colin Brown, the ...

40-year free market fairytale exposed, as public ownership returns centre stage

April 22, 2025

by Ken Ferguson • Leave aside the panicky Saturday recall of parliament amidst a welter of sub Churchillian guff about the ‘national interest’. The real story in the ...

Tenementals’ radical debut album ‘conjures a constellation of possibilities’

April 6, 2025

Glasgow: A History (Vol. I of VI) by The Tenementals, LP/CD/digital album on Strength In Numbers Records. (Photo: Julia Bauer) Album review by Malcolm McGonigle • Pop music ...

For struggle and socialist policies to end Labour’s class war

April 6, 2025

by Richie Venton, SSP national trade union organiser • A new and vicious class war against the working class has been unleashed, against the sick, the disabled, children, ...