The Scotland that helped return Blair’s landslide no longer exists
by John McAllion, ex-Labour MP and MSP, now with the Scottish Socialist Party At the time of writing, the most recent opinion poll in Scotland gave the SNP a 15 point lead ...
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2014: the year that the British mask slipped
by Ken Ferguson, Scottish Socialist Voice editor This will be the last Voice of this historic year and inevitably Voice readers will want to reflect on it. Top of all of ...
Land reform: ‘If the Lairds are looking worried – good!’
Highlands MSP John Finnie takes a look at the latest land reform proposals There I was, tweeting information a newspaper had obtained under Freedom of Information about the ...
‘Undemocratic and over the top reaction’
SSP councillor Jim Bollan gives his view on the furore over the burning of the Smith report The SNP’s decision to suspend four of their councillors for burning a ...
Tax office spends public money on union-busting
by a PCS representative The revelations on 13 November of a union-busting plot at the heart of HMRC should come as no surprise to all socialists and students of trade union ...
Smith Commission: no more apologies
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson The morning after the night of the referendum, Cameron left Downing Street to promise to keep the vow to the Scottish people ...
Trident moves centre stage
by David McKenzie, Scrap Trident Coalition In the early days of the Yes campaign, I recall having sometimes to argue for a place for UK nukes within the list of critical ...
Scottish trade unions’ Bhopal solidarity visit
by Eurig Scandrett, UCU Scotland and Scottish Friends of Bhopal Thirty years ago, the world’s worst corporate crime happened in Bhopal in central India. An insecticide ...
Socialist Cuba doing the heavy lifting in Ebola crisis
by Bill Bonnar While the world rallies to support the countries suffering the from the Ebola epidemic and Lord Bob Geldof and his tax dodging, self-publicising friends plug ...
The Scotland we are living in now was inconceivable three short years ago
by Alan Bissett The No vote in the referendum in September was truly devastating to those of us who voted Yes. We felt it as yet another blow to social justice—to ...
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