Holyrood: independence still key
by Ken Ferguson • With the unedifying shouting match of the first “leaders” TV debate the official Holyrood election campaign got under way. Hosted by a BBC ...
Editorial
Memory Lane has no answers to Scotland’s current crisis
by Ken Ferguson • They say that nostalgia isn’t what it was but there is certainly plenty of it about in today’s politics. In an uncanny echo of the dirty tricks of ...
Brexit or not, pro-indy left case remains essential
by Ken Ferguson With the super hyped Cameron EU “deal” already fading from memory, the real reason for the supposedly historic EU referendum is growing ever clearer. At ...
Glare of war illuminates Westminster power play
Editorial by Ken Ferguson As the Voice went to press 66 Labour MPs voted with the Tories to send a handful of RAF bombers into action in Syria once again showing that the ...
The fruits of globalisation: a world in flames
by Ken Ferguson The unspeakable horror on the streets of Paris dramatically spotlights the world of chaos resulting from the 30 years plus economic, social and military ...
For people and for planet, Scotland needs real change
Editorial by Ken Ferguson If we are to believe the media pundits, Scottish politics is about to be a battle between a leftward moving Scottish Labour squaring up to take on ...
Water privatised, ferries tendered, fracking test drills roll as SNP govern
by Ken Ferguson The long Teflon-coated SNP administration in Holyrood is facing growing turbulence as it struggles to square its public image as a left wing anti-austerity ...
Neither Sturgeon or Corbyn have the answer
by Ken Ferguson There is an old saying “nothing is new under the sun” and nowhere is this more clearly the case as in the world of politics. With the demands and the ...
Can the left stem the rising tide of Tory barbarism?
by Ken Ferguson It seems that with each passing day, the hard nosed Tory Etonians—running the UK on a minority of votes cast in May—land further blows on the poor, ...
From Athens to London: elites entrench rich minority rule
by Ken Ferguson The brutal crushing of the Greek people by the unelected Troika heaps further economic misery on them in order to sustain a neoliberal economic order whose ...
Scottish Socialist Voice 