Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice

Help the Voice’s Roz Paterson get the lifesaving treatment she needs

January 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson and Simon Whittle • As many of you will know by now, long-time Scottish Socialist Voice journalist Roz Paterson was recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of blood cancer, ...

The Tories made this Brexit crisis: we refuse to pay for it

January 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Amidst the smoke of the Brexit battle and May’s defeat with the rejection of her EU deal by a stunning 230 votes, the official media endorsed hand wringing about the process is ...

Rosa Luxemburg: socialist icon

January 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Turbett • 100 years ago this month, Rosa Luxemburg was beaten up and shot dead in Berlin by Freikorps members, the forerunners of the Nazis, on the implicit orders of the leaders of the ...

The New Victorians: tinned tuna and Tory grandees

December 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster • At our branch last night, we had a discussion about Dickens and his reasons for writing A Christmas Carol. This book was written just at the time Queen Victoria’s marriage to ...

Military bases in the spotlight

December 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

David Mackenzie reports • Several hundred folk from at least 35 countries gathered in Dublin on 16-18 November for a conference about US and NATO military bases worldwide. Over the two days there ...

Peoples’ interests remain in austerity’s cross hairs

December 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • How many Tory MPs will rebel? Will May fall? Deal or no deal? As the Voice goes to press, the swirl of speculation among the political classes, media “experts” and policy ...

A clean green Scotland is possible… if we act quickly

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Annie Morgan, Glasgow South SSP • The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that we have little more than a decade to curb emissions or face catastrophic climate ...

100 years on, the choice is still socialism or barbarism

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • This Voice goes to press amidst a media clamour marking the centenary of the armistice which finally ended the imperialist slaughter of World War One. By coincidence, it is also ...

Sleeves-rolled-up time for peace activists

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by David McKenzie • Trump has confirmed that the US will unilaterally pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). This is a bi-lateral treaty between the US and Russia and bans ...

All that is solid melts into thin air

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

Book review: Like a Thief in Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek. Published by Allen Lane, 2018 • review by Colin Fox • I read Slavoj Žižek’s new book Like a Thief in Broad Daylight in Venice ...