Editorial

EDITORIAL: Atomic Scientists Set Doomsday Clock at 85 Seconds to Planetary Destruction

February 4, 2026

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

January 14, 2026

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

December 10, 2025

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

November 21, 2025

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

March 15, 2025

(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

February 18, 2025

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

January 15, 2025

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?

September 17, 2023

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, ...

Mainstream middle ground politics ignores the urgent realities of people and planet

August 24, 2023

Editorial by Ken Ferguson On every hand — Tory, Starmer Labour and the increasingly divided SNP — mainstream politicians share one key characteristic, in that they claim ...

‘Liar’ Johnson’s government in chaos and confusion

July 31, 2021

by Ken Ferguson · You couldn’t make it up when commenting on the current Johnson gang but then, amidst U-turns, blunders and clearly unplanned policies you don’t have ...