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Turkish president wages war on Kurds and stages a parliamentary coup

June 10, 2016

by Stephen Smellie, co-convenor, Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan Since Turkish President Erdogan decided that the peace talks with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) were ...

Ali: one man who shook the world

June 9, 2016

by Simon Whittle, Scottish Socialist Voice deputy editor • If John Lennon was bigger than Jesus, then Muhammad Ali was bigger than God. He transcended 1960s racist America ...

‘Yes’ vote in RMT ScotRail ballot

June 9, 2016

by Voice Reporter • Rail union the RMT confirmed on 7 June that members voted overwhelmingly for both strike action and industrial action short of a strike over the ...

Another Scotland is necessary

June 9, 2016

by Sandra Webster • Time travel back to the Smith Commission. After the campaign for independence, Scotland was promised more devolved powers. When Maggie Chapman talked ...

June 26 Spanish elections: left government in sight?

May 30, 2016

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Five months after the December 20 Spanish elections failed to produce a government, the country is again going to the polls in the most ...

RMT: ‘keep the guard on the train’

May 28, 2016

by a ScotRail driver • The RMT union is balloting its ScotRail conductor members over Abellio’s refusal to rule out the extension of Driver Only Operation (DOO) on ...

Hillsborough, Orgreave, Shrewsbury, blacklisting… THE STATE IS ROTTEN

May 13, 2016

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • There is something rotten at the heart of capitalism. Not just a few bad apples, but a whole stinking barrel of ...

Assaults on workers’ rights take shine off Dundee’s V&A

April 29, 2016

by Mike Arnott, secretary, Dundee Trades Council • On 18 April, the first day of the STUC Congress, our Dundee Trades Union Council delegation became aware of an issue ...

Chernobyl: 30 years on

April 29, 2016

Roz Paterson looks at the disaster and what has happened since • Thirty years ago this week, a reactor exploded at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and for a few days, this ...

RISE to put indyref2, economic and social justice at centre of campaign

April 15, 2016

by Voice Reporter • The tax-dodging scandal exposed by the Panama papers showing the London money moguls up to their necks in hiding tax dodgers billions in what are ...