Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice

Menaced by multi-headed crisis – flight or fight?

September 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Amidst the dizzying series of dramatic developments in the Brexit saga, creating a historic crisis in UK politics, it needs to be understood that it is also located in a much wider ...

Support the Strike for Climate

September 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Róisín McLaren, SSP national co-spokesperson · The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) sent our support to the school strikers taking part in the Friday 20th Strike for Climate and subsequent ...

On Brexit and socialist advance

September 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · With Parliament prorogued for five weeks, the prospect of a General Election has receded temporarily. The Party Conference season is traditionally a time ...

US waging an economic war on Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

SSP International Secretary Bill Bonnar reports back from his visit to Caracas in Venezuela · In April, the Scottish Socialist Party released a statement in support of the Venezuelan Revolution and ...

With a world in flames, working class action for change essential

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Both literally and metaphorically, the world is in flames, with fires largely lit by human greed, inspired by the market madness of neoliberalism. Real conflagrations in the ...

On Brexit, a general election and Scottish independence

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · It looks like Britain will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal after all. In order to ‘trump’ his Parliamentary opponents and their ‘No ...

Workers and youth unite against capitalist polluters

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · As we live through the molten heat, thunder and lightning, floods and general climate chaos of recent weeks, new reports on the catastrophic ...

Illusion and reality in the world of Boris Johnson

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Nearly a month into the reign of the new Tory leader, the torrent of right wing media praise for Boris Johnson is unabated. Even the reduction of the Tory/DUP commons majority to ...

Building solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution: why the SSP is visiting Venezuela

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar, SSP International Secretary · Later this month I will be representing the Scottish Socialist Party on a solidarity visit to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. The SSP has been clear in ...

Voice Forum: Socialist Solutions to Climate Change

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

What progressive solutions to climate change can save the world and make the lives of working people better? Saturday 29th June, 11am-1pm, Grassmarket Centre, Edinburgh EH1 2QA · For tickets and ...