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What are the progressive class solutions in climate change debate?

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · I’m looking forward to the Scottish Socialist Voice Forum on how to counter the threat climate change poses in ways that enrich and improve the lives ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Time the left faced indy’s new challenges

March 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Isn’t it strange how Brexit is being blamed for everything from Honda’s decision to close its Swindon factory to the unseasonal February weather? ...

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

March 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 do we want? 6.4 per cent ...

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

January 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

· 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 journalist Roz Paterson was ...

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

January 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 wringing about the process is ...

The New Victorians: tinned tuna and Tory grandees

December 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster • At our branch last night, we had a discussion about Dickens and his reasons for writing A Christmas Carol. This book was written just at the time Queen Victoria’s marriage to ...

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