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The Events in Ireland: Working Class Unity and Socialism to Combat Racism

July 3, 2026

By Richie Venton (who grew up in County Fermanagh) In early June, Belfast witnessed the worst street violence in decades. Gangs of black-clad boys and men, in masks and ...

South Africa’s Conference of the Left: Rebuilding working-class power beyond fragmentation

June 30, 2026

by Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara, Member of the SteeringCommittee, Conference of the Left SOUTH AFRICA’S Conference of the Left, held from 29 to 31 May 2026 in Boksburg, was not a ...

Cuba Needs Our Solidarity Now More Than Ever

June 11, 2026

By Bill Bonnar, SSP International Officer The Cuban revolution has faced many trials and tribulations since 1959 but nothing compared to the crisis engulfing the country ...

DEMAND JUSTICE FOR THE FILTON 25

June 8, 2026

by Amina Abdel-Khaliq, Lanarkshire Action Network for Palestine JUSTICE IS A CORE TENET OF DEMOCRACY. We live in a democracy, or so it is claimed, but the erosion of the ...

Beware of Burnham Fakery

June 5, 2026

By Richie Venton Keir Starmer is finished. Wes Streeting thought he could challenge him for Labour leadership but couldn’t muster enough members of the Parliamentary ...

Save Our Fire and Rescue Service

May 6, 2026

by Colin Brown, FBU NEC member for Scotland AS WE HEAD INTO STUC congress #26, the pressures being faced across the entire public sector are once again laid bare for all to ...

A Socialist Campaign to be proud of… but it’s not over yet!

May 1, 2026

By SSP Election Campaign Organiser Richie Venton CONSIDERING OUR lack of resources, the SSP has staged a phenomenal election campaign, popularising socialist measures that ...

Free Public Transport: A Solution to Pollution

April 8, 2026

by Alex Creel, SSP candidate, South Scotland Regional List SOCIALISTS SEE public transport as a vital, subsidised public service rather than a profit-driven commodity, ...

So-called ‘statesmen’ take world to the brink to defend greed and rich minority rule

April 1, 2026

AS THE VOICE goes to press we are poised on the divide between escalating and spreading war on the one hand and a shaky peace on the other both with potentially ruinous ...

Are Smartphones Such a Clever Idea in Schools?

February 24, 2026

by Voice special correspondent THE USE OF MOBILE PHONES in schools has been a contentious issue for a number of years. With the introduction of smartphones and their ...