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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 ...

Social care must be a right for all

June 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Natalie Reid, SSP national co-spokesperson • It’s no secret that social care funding is in crisis, in Scotland and across the UK as a whole. Inevitably, this has led to inequality in social ...

Protecting the most vulnerable… Tory style

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster • The mantra of the caring, sharing Tory party is “We will protect the most vulnerable.” It was banged out during the last general election campaign at regular intervals. ...

50 years after the Abortion Act – what now?

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Jenni Gunn • 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Rights Act—making abortion legal and free on the National Health Service. The passing of the Act was a watershed moment in the ...

The left must educate, agitate, organise

February 9, 2017 // 1 Comment

by Jenni Gunn • In many years to come, when historians look back at Trump’s (hopefully short) presidency, they will look to the women’s marches in the wake of his inauguration as the beginning ...

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