Scottish Socialist Voice

VOICE OPINION: There’s never been a better time for a progressive agenda but ‘learned helplessness’ of UK govt finances stands in our way

August 21, 2026

by William Thomson PROMISING A NEW VISION for the UK, a new Labour Prime Minister has taken up residence in two No 10s. With a huge 170 majority, Andy Burnham has the ...

Israel’s Genocide Moves Up a Gear

August 19, 2026

RIGHT TO RESIST: when settlers attack a village or settlement, and there is local resistance, the IDF declare it a terrorist threat and move in with massive repression by ...

‘Those who the gods would destroy, they first make mad…’

August 7, 2026

THE FAMOUS WORDS of Greek tragedian Euripides, written thousands of years ago, might well have been written as a commentary on our own times. As this Voice goes to press we ...

The Events in Ireland: Working Class Unity and Socialism to Combat Racism

July 3, 2026

By Richie Venton (who grew up in County Fermanagh) In early June, Belfast witnessed the worst street violence in decades. Gangs of black-clad boys and men, in masks and ...

South Africa’s Conference of the Left: Rebuilding working-class power beyond fragmentation

June 30, 2026

by Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara, Member of the SteeringCommittee, Conference of the Left SOUTH AFRICA’S Conference of the Left, held from 29 to 31 May 2026 in Boksburg, was not a ...

By-Election Spotlights Ongoing Crisis

June 24, 2026

Editorial by Ken Ferguson, Voice Editor AS COMMENTATORS reach for that grievously overworked “historic” superlative and outbid each other in the significance stakes it ...

Cuba Needs Our Solidarity Now More Than Ever

June 11, 2026

By Bill Bonnar, SSP International Officer The Cuban revolution has faced many trials and tribulations since 1959 but nothing compared to the crisis engulfing the country ...

DEMAND JUSTICE FOR THE FILTON 25

June 8, 2026

by Amina Abdel-Khaliq, Lanarkshire Action Network for Palestine JUSTICE IS A CORE TENET OF DEMOCRACY. We live in a democracy, or so it is claimed, but the erosion of the ...

Beware of Burnham Fakery

June 5, 2026

By Richie Venton Keir Starmer is finished. Wes Streeting thought he could challenge him for Labour leadership but couldn’t muster enough members of the Parliamentary ...

Embezzlement and calls to pamper the rich spotlight the gulf between the powerful and the people

June 3, 2026

By Ken Ferguson AS THE VOICE goes to press we are in the midst of headline grabbing stories generated by the formerly or still self defined powerful in ways that leave the ...