VOICE EXTRA: Union membership – questions of life and death
International Workers’ Memorial Day, 28 April · Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don’t die of mystery ailments, or in tragic “accidents”. They die ...
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VOICE EXTRA: Covid-19, poverty and the climate emergency – the global crises that only socialists can solve
by Graeme Cullen and Hugh Cullen · If the COP26 conference takes place in Glasgow next year, world leaders must discuss the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on the struggle to reduce global ...
Covid-19 lockdown highlights Britain’s public health policy
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Britain is in a dark place today, one it has never inhabited before. The Government’s ‘lockdown’ leaves an old world behind for ever. Nothing is ...
VOICE EXTRA: Covid-19 crisis opens window on the multi-dimensional guilt of neoliberalism
by Ken Ferguson · A spectre certainly is haunting the planet with the rapidly escalating Covid-19 crisis, with countries in lockdown, pillars of today’s supposedly free market utopia such as ...
The DWP forces young disabled woman to beg
by Chloe Maclean · Despite austerity being declared over by Boris Johnson, the action of the DWP does not seem to have changed. In fact, very little seems to have changed for ordinary people. On ...
VOICE EXTRA: Defy all cuts – there IS an alternative to capitulation!
As Scotland’s councils meet to set their budgets, the reality is that we face yet another round of cuts, job losses and Council Tax hikes. Scottish Socialists say that it doesn’t have to be that ...
Looking forward to COP26
by Róisín McLaren, SSP national co-spokesperson · This November, the biggest talking shop in the professional conference circuit comes to Glasgow, the UN Conference of Parties (COP26). COP is the ...
Yes campaign must secure majority support in 2020
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Tens of thousands of independence supporters marched through Glasgow last weekend—in appalling weather—to protest against the fact Scotland is once ...
On Brexit and socialist advance
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · With Parliament prorogued for five weeks, the prospect of a General Election has receded temporarily. The Party Conference season is traditionally a time ...
On Brexit, a general election and Scottish independence
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · It looks like Britain will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal after all. In order to ‘trump’ his Parliamentary opponents and their ‘No ...
