Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice

Focus on personality a diversion from urgent action needed now

September 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · The long slow decomposition of recently all powerful Scottish Labour reached its latest stage with the failed “chicken coup” against erstwhile leader Richard Leonard at the ...

Wave of solidarity for Richie signposts fightback we need

September 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · The brutally engineered sacking by furniture giant IKEA of USDAW Shop Steward and Convener Richie Venton must serve both as a warning and a rallying cry to us all. The trumped up ...

IKEA face anger across UK, in unions, public and parliament

September 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson, Editor, Scottish Socialist Voice · The battle to win reinstatement for Glasgow IKEA shop steward Richie Venton, and 100 per cent average wages for workers sick with Covid-19, is ...

Imagine how to fight the slaughter of jobs and wages!

August 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · “We’re All In This Together” declares the signage in one famous supermarket. Far from it! The household name displaying those posters, ...

Socialists must prepare for next war, not the last one

August 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · It is often said that politicians, diplomats and generals prepare to fight their battles with plans based on what happened during the last war they fought only to find that this ...

‘They don’t even see us as human!’

August 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Scott Macdonald · LGBT+ friends and comrades have taken to the streets across Scotland, calling on the Scottish Government, the Polish Embassy and local authorities to demand the release of queer ...

VOICE EXTRA: Corporate thuggery at British Airways

August 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · British Airways bosses have given us a toxic taste of the jobs slaughter and wage-slashing that millions of workers face as capitalists and their ...

US chlorinated chicken bad for your health and stained by racism

July 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Roisin McLaren, SSP national co-spokesperson · We’ve heard a lot about the dangers of chlorinated chicken. Chickens in America are kept in such cramped conditions that disease spreads very ...

Surge of action essential if space warfare is to be avoided

July 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by David Webb, chair of UK CND · The US and the UK claim that they have caught Russia making an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test. Testing an ASAT weapon is not unusual—the US, Russia, China and ...

Jara remembered in song

July 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

Album Review: Even In Exile by James Dean Bradfield. Released 14 August on MontyRay LP/CD/digital. ★★★★★ by Simon Whittle · Victor Jara, the Chilean musician, teacher, poet and playwright ...