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VOICE EXTRA: Reaching a zero-Covid Scotland

July 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Mike Downham · There is now a real opportunity for elimination of Covid-19 in Scotland, but the Scottish government cannot be relied upon to ensure that it happens. A critical factor in achieving ...

VOICE EXTRA: Rishi Sunak’s menu – old wine in new bottles

July 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Chancellor Sunak’s mini-budget uses smart spin about cheap meals for diners—at a time when tens of thousands rely on food banks—to dress up what is largely reheated soup ...

How useful the internet is depends on who’s using it

July 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Scott Macdonald · Covid-19 (C-19) has exposed the contradictions inherent in 21st century capitalism. While Richard Branson brings his billionaire begging bowl to the public purse for a handout, ...

VOICE EXTRA: Unison backs National Care Service plan

June 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

Calls are growing in support of the SSP’S demand for a publicly owned and regulated National Care Service. The UK’s biggest union UNISON has called for a replacement to the existing “broken” ...

VOICE EXTRA: Union membership – questions of life and death

April 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 ...

VOICE EXTRA: Covid-19, poverty and the climate emergency – the global crises that only socialists can solve

April 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

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

March 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

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

March 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

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

March 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

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!

February 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 ...