Scottish Socialist Voice

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 ...

Election heralds urgent need to break with passivity and head for real change

May 13, 2026

by Ken Ferguson IN SCOTLAND, the election contains both positives and negatives with the balance coming down, at least provisionally’, on the progressive side. The ...

Save Our Fire and Rescue Service

May 6, 2026

by Colin Brown, FBU NEC member for Scotland AS WE HEAD INTO STUC congress #26, the pressures being faced across the entire public sector are once again laid bare for all to ...

A Socialist Campaign to be proud of… but it’s not over yet!

May 1, 2026

By SSP Election Campaign Organiser Richie Venton CONSIDERING OUR lack of resources, the SSP has staged a phenomenal election campaign, popularising socialist measures that ...