Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice

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 ...

Free public transport: SSP day of action

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Hugh Cullen, SSP National Secretary · SSP branches and members took to bus, ferry, train, tram and subway stations on Saturday 15 June, campaigning for Free Public Transport as part of a national ...

As Trump’s pal Boris powers ahead, it’s clear there’s no good Tory choice

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · As the crisis wracked Tories, for centuries the premier pillar of the British state, fall in behind proven blunderer, racist and imperial fantasist Johnson a pitiless spotlight is ...

What are the progressive class solutions in climate change debate?

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · I’m looking forward to the Scottish Socialist Voice Forum on how to counter the threat climate change poses in ways that enrich and improve the lives ...

We’re told people are selfish – Roz Paterson proved otherwise

June 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Obituary: Roz Paterson, 13 June 1966 – 6 May 2019 • by Alan McCombes, former Voice editor • A bright light has gone out in the lives of many people across Scotland and beyond. Cruelly struck ...

Surreal Euro polls put crisis of the British state in the spotlight

June 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Historically a bye word for stability, statecraft and order, the British state is now facing political and constitutional disarray on a unimagined scale. Already gridlocked ...

John Auld: a modest, sincere, dedicated socialist stalwart

June 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Obituary: John Auld, 13 October 1940–19 May 2019 • by Richie Venton • It was with great sadness and sense of loss we said goodbye to longstanding SSP comrade and friend John Auld, who died ...