Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice

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 ...

In a world of spin, the facts will set you free

May 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · The cheering which met the supposedly stunning defeat of the SNP leadership on a Scottish currency had barely died down when the party’s legendary spin machine went into ...

SSP indy call: back real change

May 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Last weekend’s SNP Conference voted to endorse the Sustainable Growth Commission’s case for independence. Or did it? For whilst the media focused on ...

John Maclean: greatest of the Red Clydesiders

May 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar · This year (August 24th) marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of John Maclean. It also marks the 100th anniversary of Red Clydeside yet no memorial to those tumultuous events ...

‘A social wrong as great as the poll tax’

April 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster · April: a time of rebirth of new opportunities. Our government is using the Brexit debates to hide some very bad news and ridiculous payments to those with the most need. Surely ...

SSP activists mark minimum wage increase with push for £10-an-hour

April 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter · The National Minimum Wage went up by 38p on Monday April 1st from £7.83/per hour to £8.21. The SSP marked this over the weekend by taking campaigns onto the streets with stalls ...

All that’s solid melts in air amidst Brexit crisis

April 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Even the most hardened journalists, activists and politicians now stand on the edge of Brexit bafflement as things unthinkable one day enter the mainstream the next. Moving at ...

Seafarers who took on fascists are honoured with new Glasgow memorial

March 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Glasgow Shipping branch of the RMT union recently hosted a gathering of local, national and international supporters at the unveiling of a plaque and statue on the banks of the Clyde, in memory ...