Editorial

Being pro-indy no excuse for shelving socialist politics

July 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · As we take this Voice to press, mainstream media and cyber space are awash with ever more fevered speculation about the formation of new alliances and perhaps parties set to ...

A world we must win

July 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Voice readers will be familiar with that famous socialist slogan “workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains, you have a world to win.” Well, as we ...

Who will foot C-19 bill?

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · It is said that when the British Army finally lost the revolutionary war with the US they marched away from the surrender ceremony playing a march called The World Turned Upside ...

Crisis tears up neoliberal rule book

March 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Inevitably, this Voice is largely devoted to the planetary Covid-19 crisis and its impact on workers, communities, economics and indeed our entire capitalist market economy, which ...

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 ...

Covid-19 is not the only virus we face

March 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · This Voice goes to press amidst amidst a growing tide of concern among both the public and governments about the scale, spread, health implications and wider social impact of a ...

Brexit and Boris indyref 2 veto are both fruits of 2014 No vote

February 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · However much Voice readers may want not to the 55 per cent No vote in 2014 means we currently live in a Britain firmly governed by a reactionary right wing populist Tory ...

Today the choice is still ‘socialism or barbarism’

January 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · A century after Rosa Luxemburg coined, amidst the mechanised slaughter of the great imperialist war, the slogan “Socialism or Barbarism” if anything it is more relevant than ...

For democracy, for people and for planet, oppose Tory minority rule

December 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Yet again, the bitter fruits of the supposed caring British union are visited on Scotland in the form of Tory minority rule, rejected overwhelmingly by Scottish voters. Sadly this ...

Powerful disdain democracy across the planet

November 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · We live in a planet dominated by the pitiless forces of giant corporations, big money and a handful of mega rich individuals backed by saturation propaganda and, ultimately brute ...