Jim McVicar, Rest in Power
by Colin Fox and Richie Venton · We feel enormous sorrow and a huge void at the death of our dear friend and comrade, Jim McVicar, taken from us far too young. Some people would have you believe Jim ...
Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice
‘Never glad confident morning again’ for bluster-man Boris
by Ken Ferguson · Was it just a short year ago that the master huckster Boris Johnson achieved what was flagged at the time as the quasi-revolutionary prelude to new global free market, union ...
Latin America epicentre of drive for socialist change
by Bill Bonnar · The election for the National Assembly in Venezuela produced the expected landslide victory for the Socialist Party; expected because the right-wing opposition boycotted the poll. ...
UK backs arms race in space
by David Webb, chair of UK CND and convenor of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space · Boris Johnson’s recent announcement of a £16.5billion boost to the UK’s defence ...
Join Voice rally to chart the road from crisis to change
by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice The Voice, the only socialist paper written and edited in Scotland, has been at the heart of the democratic, political, social and environmental ...
ScotRail: Abellio bully boys try divide-and-rule
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · As the RMT union ballots 2,500 ScotRail workers for action in pursuit of an extremely reasonable pay claim, ScotRail bosses have come out all ...
Just Transition only can solve Mossmorran’s pollution and preserve jobs
by Councillor Mary Lockhart · On 5 October 2020, pilots of aircraft approaching Edinburgh Airport radioed Air Traffic Control to ask if it was safe to land. Their flight decks appeared to be full of ...
Isolate the profiteers
by Ken Ferguson · The euphoria that erupted with the Covid vaccine breakthroughs is entirely understandable as people across the planet cross their fingers and sigh with relief. Of course despite ...
Public ownership essential to meet climate and Covid crises
by Ken Ferguson · The total failure of the SNP’s attempt to save fabrication jobs at BiFab while playing by the EU’s market friendly state aid ban can truly be described as a disaster. Hardest ...
Increasingly desperate Covid measures won’t halt looming crisis
by Ken Ferguson · Stay at home, work from home, go to work or lose your jobs and eat out on us on the way, oh no get out of the pub, don’t visit your kids or granny. I don’t know about you but ...
