Tackling climate change can create jobs
Roz Paterson looks at a trade union-based plan • It’s not often you read a booklet about climate change and actually feel like whooping with excitement at its vision of ...
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Smoke and spin no answer to real challenges facing people
by Ken Ferguson • If history repeats itself as Marx claimed first as tragedy and then farce nobody seems to have told Labour deputy leader Tom Watson. Right wing Watson ...
Real action is necessary to challenge workplace sexism
by Jenni Gunn • The political, economic and social position of women in Scotland in 2016 looks markedly different from the way in which it looked for my mother’s ...
The SNP’s named person initiative: storm in a teacup?
by Colin Turbett, author of ‘Doing Radical Social Work’ • If we are going to judge the SNP’s performance in government in Scotland let’s do so on issues that ...
Scottish Labour faces a ‘developing calamity’
by the SSP’s John McAllion, former Labour MP and MSP • Labour’s crisis has so far focussed on characters and events south of the border. The second leadership contest ...
Brexit rocks politics and unleashes multiple crises
EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • The victory for Brexit in the European referendum has unleashed a multiplicity of crises which poses the greatest threat to Westminster system ...
Nicola plays a blinder and plays for time
by Voice Reporter • Since the Brexit victory First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has, by common consent, played a blinder in sharp contrast with Tory and Labour disarray. She is ...
Ali: one man who shook the world
by Simon Whittle, Scottish Socialist Voice deputy editor • If John Lennon was bigger than Jesus, then Muhammad Ali was bigger than God. He transcended 1960s racist America ...
Another Scotland is necessary
by Sandra Webster • Time travel back to the Smith Commission. After the campaign for independence, Scotland was promised more devolved powers. When Maggie Chapman talked ...
Holyrood must axe offensive behaviour at football law
by Liam McLaughlin • With the Holyrood election now over, and the hurt of a bruising night for the left and progressive forces involved with the pro-independence campaign ...
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