All That’s Solid Melts in Air
HISTORIC IS A greatly overworked term wheeled out, often without much thought, to describe events as diverse as a last-minute goal in a cup final or the end of a political ...
Editorial
Mandelson crisis lifts lid on greed and corruption at heart of the ‘free market’
By Ken Ferguson JUST A COUPLE of Voice issues ago, we recalled Lenin’s remark that there are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen. We are now living ...
EDITORIAL: Atomic Scientists Set Doomsday Clock at 85 Seconds to Planetary Destruction
By Ken Ferguson FIRST LAUNCHED in 1947 by a group of scientists working with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Doomsday Clock was intended to warn the world how ...
Lenin’s ‘weeks where decades happen’ are upon us
By Ken Ferguson DESPITE A YEAR of cringing and cowering before Trump by Starmer, Labour, and assorted centrist governments — from soft fascism in Italy to coalition ...
Class Politics: the critical antidote to the far-right virus
By Ken Ferguson AS THIS LAST VOICE of 2025 goes to press, the air is thick with claim and counter-claim on a possible pact, alliance or even merger between the Tory Party — ...
Spin, Neglect, and Anger: How Labour’s Failures Fuel the Far Right
By Ken Ferguson AS THE VOICE goes to press, the grumbling volcano of fear and resentment sparked among Labour MPs by the party’s opinion poll plunge to all-time historic ...
Politicians target working class to pay war butcher’s bill
(Pic: Craig Maclean) by Ken Ferguson • Whether it was Lenin or John Maclean that said it the truth remains: “A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at both ends.” This ...
Trump’s shock and awe has Starmer cowering
by Ken Ferguson • More mature Voice readers may remember where they were when they first encountered “shock and awe” as massive explosions lit up the Baghdad skyline on ...
Trump hoggs the headlines but Burns points the way ahead
EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • As 2025 unfolds and the era of Trump 2.0 begins crisis confronts us on every hand with the now openly flaunted power of the likes of Musk thrown ...
In a world desperate for change, what is to be done?
Editorial, by Ken Ferguson As we proudly take the 600th edition of the Voice to press we do so against a background of a people and planet crisis inflicting hunger, war, ...
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