Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice

Lecturers’ strike: ‘If we don’t win, it won’t just be a day’s strike pay we’ll be losing’

March 5, 2019

A striking college lecturer speaks to the Voice · “College lecturers are on our third week of strike action for a cost of living pay rise dating back two years. What ...

Nationalise to save Springburn rail depot

March 1, 2019

by Richie Venton, SSP workplace organiser · Workers at the historic railway depot in Springburn, Glasgow, are battling against its closure, with the loss of nearly 200 ...

Brexit-fuelled fantasies of Empire 2.0 makes indy case

March 1, 2019

by Ken Ferguson · In what now seems like a universe far, far away, during the 2016 EU referendum, the Voice took a reluctant Remain position and warned that the politics of ...

Voice Forum: Socialist Solutions to Scotland’s Housing Crisis

February 14, 2019

Scottish Socialist Voice Forum: ‘Socialist Solutions to Scotland’s Housing Crisis’ Saturday 23 February, 11am-2pm UNISON Office 84 Bell St, Glasgow G1 1LQ ...

Roz’s treatment to be NHS-funded

February 8, 2019

by Simon Whittle · “Something just happened, and like a magic wand, it changes everything.” After raising a whopping £320,000 in a matter of weeks for urgent cancer ...

Fight to save every Tesco job

February 8, 2019

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Tesco workers have reacted with shock, anxiety and fury at the announcement of 9,000 job losses, and the manner this ...

Action on people’s priorities can drive real change

February 8, 2019

by Ken Ferguson · Even political junkies must be reeling by now at the dizzying pace of Brexit crisis following Brexit crisis and the saturation media discussion of it on ...

Help the Voice’s Roz Paterson get the lifesaving treatment she needs

January 18, 2019

· See update, ‘Roz’s treatment to be NHS-funded’ by Ken Ferguson and Simon Whittle • As many of you will know by now, long-time Scottish Socialist Voice ...

The Tories made this Brexit crisis: we refuse to pay for it

January 18, 2019

by Ken Ferguson • Amidst the smoke of the Brexit battle and May’s defeat with the rejection of her EU deal by a stunning 230 votes, the official media endorsed hand ...

Rosa Luxemburg: socialist icon

January 18, 2019

by Colin Turbett • 100 years ago this month, Rosa Luxemburg was beaten up and shot dead in Berlin by Freikorps members, the forerunners of the Nazis, on the implicit ...