Victory to the UCU!
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The breadth and depth of strike action by staff at ten Scottish universities, and 61 across the UK, is unprecedented. ...
Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice
Elite Brexit power play locks people out
by Ken Ferguson • The Voice goes to press as Jeremy Corbyn announces a Labour policy shift to endorse “a customs union” with the EU and beleaguered Premier May is ...
What’s Brexit got to do with it?
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • There is a temptation to dismiss the Brexit debate as tedious and irrelevant to the real priorities facing working people in ...
Will Westminster’s crisis be Scotland’s opportunity?
by Ken Ferguson • With each passing day the multi-sided crisis racking the May government throws up another issue and another bout of speculation about the Prime ...
Scottish Socialist Party £10/hr demo puts the bite on Apple
by Hugh Cullen and Michael Davidson • The Lothians branch of the SSP organised a demonstration at the Apple Store on Princes Street recently, demanding a £10-an-hour ...
Ursula K. Le Guin: ‘Source to nourish the uncolonised mind’
by Scott Macdonald • I generally do not weep when my heroes die. I do for Ursula K. Le Guin, speculative fiction writer, poet, scholar and genius, gone at the age of 88. ...
US chlorinated chicken the tip of a nasty iceberg
by Roz Paterson • Hey, happy new year! Have you noticed that Liam Fox, currently UK Trade Secretary, keeps saying that US-produced chicken is ‘perfectly safe’? Does ...
Working class demands hold the key to progress in 2018
by Ken Ferguson • The hangover that greeted the dawn of 2018 wasn’t just down to too much Prosseco but based on the experiences of the events of the old year and the ...
Publicly owned railways: the surest way to end rip off fares
by Gordon Martin, RMT Regional Organiser • Along with activists from RMT branches, I was out on Wednesday 3 January distributing postcards to rail commuters making their ...
In Momentumland, Jeremy Corbyn won the election
Book review: The Corbyn Effect, edited by Mark Perryman. Published by Lawrence & Wishart • by Colin Fox • Had you not known better before reading this book you would ...
