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Record numbers swindled out of statutory minimum wage

October 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • One million people in Scotland live in poverty today according to Government figures and most of them are working. It used to be the case that work was ...

The shine comes off both Nicola and Corbyn-mania

September 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • Jeremy Corbyn was in Scotland last week. He told listeners to Radio Four’s World at One that, “Scottish Socialist Party members should join Labour ...

Class challenges not liberalism can halt Trump and his populist allies

July 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Hugh Cullen • Plenty has been said to characterise Trump as a slimy sociopathic predator. His persistent lies and disregard for human life sparks protest around the world and in liberal ...

As SNP put NorthLink ferries out to tender, RMT pledge to continue nationalisation fight

June 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Gordon Martin, Scottish Regional Organiser, RMT • Following several months of will-they-or-won’t-they, the SNP Scottish Government delivered the news on Thursday 24 May that they wouldn’t ...

As BGT winner’s inspiration is hailed, attacks on disabled rights must end

June 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster • I have to admit to not being a fan of the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. I saw the result show after reading that two people with disabilities one with autism and one ...

Growth Report ignores working class

June 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • Andrew Wilson’s long awaited Sustainable Growth Commission Report was finally published last week, and it has gone down like the proverbial lead ...

Asbjørn Wahl: ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’

May 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

Norwegian author, trade unionist and activist Asbjørn Wahl spoke to Voice editor Ken Ferguson on some key themes of April’s Voice Forum • The Voice Forum in Edinburgh last month took as its ...

What’s Brexit got to do with it?

March 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 Britain today. But the ...

Reflections of a Voice veteran as paper reaches 500th issue

November 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 dame now. Yet an ...

A hurricane with no shelter for people with disabilities

October 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sandra Webster warns of the looming cruelties of Universal Credit • When big business is saying that this Tory Government are no longer the party of big business and reminiscing about the ...

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