Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice

VOICE EXTRA: Unison backs National Care Service plan

June 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

Calls are growing in support of the SSP’S demand for a publicly owned and regulated National Care Service. The UK’s biggest union UNISON has called for a replacement to the existing “broken” ...

VOICE EXTRA: Tory lockdown mayhem – organise workers for safety first

May 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Boris Johnson’s TV broadcast to ‘the nation’ and subsequent twists, turns and publication of documents on ‘rebuilding the ...

VOICE EXTRA: Union membership – questions of life and death

April 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

International Workers’ Memorial Day, 28 April · Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don’t die of mystery ailments, or in tragic “accidents”. They die ...

VOICE EXTRA: Covid-19, poverty and the climate emergency – the global crises that only socialists can solve

April 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Graeme Cullen and Hugh Cullen · If the COP26 conference takes place in Glasgow next year, world leaders must discuss the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on the struggle to reduce global ...

Tories cost workers’ lives

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Lions led by donkeys in the war on C-19 · “Lions led by donkeys” was the wildly popular insult levelled at incompetent, aloof Generals as they threw masses of soldiers into senseless slaughter ...

Who will foot C-19 bill?

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · It is said that when the British Army finally lost the revolutionary war with the US they marched away from the surrender ceremony playing a march called The World Turned Upside ...

VOICE EXTRA: Demand an immediate £12-an-hour minimum for the ‘Minimum Wage Heroes’

April 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · As even the BBC’s Panorama was obliged to express it, “millions of minimum wage heroes are putting their lives on the line.” ...

Covid-19 lockdown highlights Britain’s public health policy

March 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Britain is in a dark place today, one it has never inhabited before. The Government’s ‘lockdown’ leaves an old world behind for ever. Nothing is ...

Crisis tears up neoliberal rule book

March 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Inevitably, this Voice is largely devoted to the planetary Covid-19 crisis and its impact on workers, communities, economics and indeed our entire capitalist market economy, which ...

VOICE EXTRA: Covid-19 crisis opens window on the multi-dimensional guilt of neoliberalism

March 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · A spectre certainly is haunting the planet with the rapidly escalating Covid-19 crisis, with countries in lockdown, pillars of today’s supposedly free market utopia such as ...