Free Public Transport: A Solution to Pollution
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
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
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
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?
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!
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’
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
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
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 ...
EDITORIAL: Atomic Scientists Set Doomsday Clock at 85 Seconds to Planetary Destruction
By Ken Ferguson FIRST LAUNCHED in 1947 by a group of scientists working with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Doomsday Clock was intended to warn the world how ...
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