Scottish Socialist Voice

Crisis will still dominate after 7 May: The Left must rise to the challenge

April 26, 2026

Pic: Craig Maclean Editorial by Ken Ferguson WHEN THE VOICE after this one you are now reading appears the full outcome of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senned and English ...

Free Public Transport: A Solution to Pollution

April 8, 2026

by Alex Creel, SSP candidate, South Scotland Regional List SOCIALISTS SEE public transport as a vital, subsidised public service rather than a profit-driven commodity, ...

So-called ‘statesmen’ take world to the brink to defend greed and rich minority rule

April 1, 2026

AS THE VOICE goes to press we are poised on the divide between escalating and spreading war on the one hand and a shaky peace on the other both with potentially ruinous ...

An Attack on Cuba or Venezuela is an Attack on All of Latin America

March 6, 2026

by Bill Bonnar, SSP International Officer A CONTAINER SHIP carrying food and medical equipment to Cuba arrives from Mexico. It is the first of several such humanitarian aid ...

All That’s Solid Melts in Air

March 3, 2026

HISTORIC IS A greatly overworked term wheeled out, often without much thought, to describe events as diverse as a last-minute goal in a cup final or the end of a political ...

Are Smartphones Such a Clever Idea in Schools?

February 24, 2026

by Voice special correspondent THE USE OF MOBILE PHONES in schools has been a contentious issue for a number of years. With the introduction of smartphones and their ...

A tangled weave of corruption and profiteering… That’s Capitalism!

February 20, 2026

By Richie Venton, SSP national trade union organiser “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”, said Marcellus in Shakespeare’s Hamlet – a play suffused ...

Mandelson crisis lifts lid on greed and corruption at heart of the ‘free market’

February 18, 2026

By Ken Ferguson JUST A COUPLE of Voice issues ago, we recalled Lenin’s remark that there are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen. We are now living ...

Minneapolis is full of lessons for Scotland’s Working Class

February 11, 2026

By Richie Venton THE UNHINGED DONALD TRUMP REGIME has unleashed racist class war on its own population whilst escalating its imperialist bullying abroad. Just days after ...

Nuclear Danger, Global Crisis as Holyrood Election Looms

February 6, 2026

by David MacKenzie, Secure Scotland THE UPCOMING ELECTION for a new Scottish Government is critical if the Scottish people and our civic institutions are to be effective ...