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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 ...

Looking forward to COP26

January 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

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

January 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

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

September 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

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 ...

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 ...

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