Scottish Socialist Voice

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 ...

EDITORIAL: Atomic Scientists Set Doomsday Clock at 85 Seconds to Planetary Destruction

February 4, 2026

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 ...

Greenland, Climate Change, and Class

January 20, 2026

by Richie Venton ONE OF SEVERAL overlapping factors behind Donald Trump’s threat to seize control of Greenland is accelerating climate change and its consequences. Global ...

New Year, New Crises… and New Reasons to be Socialist!

January 16, 2026

by Richie Venton, SSP National Trade Union Organiser ON TOP of the imperialist violence unleashed by Donald Trump in Venezuela, three new reports capture some ...

Lenin’s ‘weeks where decades happen’ are upon us

January 14, 2026

By Ken Ferguson DESPITE A YEAR of cringing and cowering before Trump by Starmer, Labour, and assorted centrist governments — from soft fascism in Italy to coalition ...

As Holyrood polls grow closer, we must assert our ‘Scotland for Peace’ aspiration

December 29, 2025

By David Mackenzie, Secure Scotland THERE IS NO NEED to rehearse how bleak and dangerous the situation is. The canvas is vast and my knowledge is limited, so I want to ...

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, ...