BiFab battle shows why we need public ownership
by Ken Ferguson • The successful outcome of the battle to protect the green jobs and skills at the BiFab engineering yards is a rare and highly welcome victory for workers ...
Articles by Scottish Socialist Voice
Loch Lomond flamingos won’t fly
by Roz Paterson • The bonny banks of Loch Lomond may very well be a haven of beauty and tranquillity, available to all, for free…but that doesn’t mean it can’t ...
Battle lines in the December 21 Catalan election
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • The December 21 election in Catalonia, called by Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, will be a plebiscite on his government’s October 27 ...
Women football fans need to be heard
by Erin Slaven · Since the introduction of the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act in 2012, there has been much debate about the legitimacy of the legislation. The Act went ...
Like October Revolution a century ago, Voice #500 appears in a world in turmoil
by Ken Ferguson • This 500th edition of the Scottish Socialist Voice marks a major landmark both for the paper and the pro-independence socialist politics it stands for. ...
The coup against Catalonia: what resistance strategy?
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Everyone had been expecting a war of position: the Spanish state would behead the Catalan government, sack its senior executives, purge the ...
RMT launches nationalise Northlink Ferries campaign
by Gordon Martin, Regional Organiser, RMT • Following on from RMT’s high profile and ultimately successful campaign to “Keep CalMac Public” the Union is now heavily ...
Reflections of a Voice veteran as paper reaches 500th issue
by Roz Paterson • The Scottish Socialist Voice, the first socialist newspaper to be written and published in Scotland since Tom Johnstone’s Forward, is quite the grande ...
Catalonia’s referendum: a triumph for democracy built on people’s power
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Is it possible to have a successful referendum when your country is effectively occupied by 10,000 police and paramilitaries with orders to ...
Democracy: the people’s weapon elites fear
by Ken Ferguson • That one image of a heavily armoured baton wielding Spanish riot cop attacking Catalan voters tells us more about the fragile nature of democracy than a ...
