RMT: ‘keep the guard on the train’
by a ScotRail driver • The RMT union is balloting its ScotRail conductor members over Abellio’s refusal to rule out the extension of Driver Only Operation (DOO) on ...
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Scottish democracy needs a vibrant, diverse media
by Paul Holleran, Scottish Organiser National Union of Journalists • A major measure of any functioning democracy is the state of its media and anyone looking closely at ...
Only a left alternative can halt the populist right
by Ken Ferguson • The narrow defeat inflicted on far right Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer by Green pro-EU Alexander Van der Bellen represents both a close ...
Hillsborough, Orgreave, Shrewsbury, blacklisting… THE STATE IS ROTTEN
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • There is something rotten at the heart of capitalism. Not just a few bad apples, but a whole stinking barrel of ...
Sturgeon under pressure from right after ‘both votes SNP’ blunder
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • RISE was right. Nicola Sturgeon’s #BothVotesSNP strategy was inept. One million SNP list votes, which could have elected ...
It is difficult swimming against the tide – but swim we must…
by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate, Lothians • The 2016 Holyrood elections remind me of 1997. I was the agent for the Scottish Socialist Alliance candidate in Edinburgh ...
Chernobyl: 30 years on
Roz Paterson looks at the disaster and what has happened since • Thirty years ago this week, a reactor exploded at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and for a few days, this ...
School closures further expose cost of Labour moneylenders fiasco
by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate in the Lothians • As the Voice went to press, the Scottish Parliament elections were dominated by the closure of 17 of Edinburgh’s ...
Land reform: much remains to be done
by Roz Paterson • “I have described the Grampians as a great faunal region—and so, according to our twentieth-century standards, it is. I ought rather to have ...
Unions must take action for £10NOW
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The season of major trade union conferences is kicking off, amidst the cacophony of barefaced lies about the ...
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