Council Tax is Scotland’s #1 debt issue: axe it now!
by Voice Reporter · As Scotland’s councils met to set their budget for the new financial year Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) revealed that amidst the tax hikes, cuts and ...
Covid-19 is not the only virus we face
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 ...
VOICE EXTRA: Defy all cuts – there IS an alternative to capitulation!
As Scotland’s councils meet to set their budgets, the reality is that we face yet another round of cuts, job losses and Council Tax hikes. Scottish Socialists say that it ...
VOICE EXTRA: Four fights – one struggle!
As University and College Union (UCU) members at 74 universities stage an escalating 14 days’ strike action, SSP national workplace organiser Richie Venton spoke to ...
Alasdair Gray: art, literature should represent ‘the most necessary and typical people’
Writer and artist Alasdair Gray died in December. Here, Andrew Givan offers a tribute and a recollection · It was a cosy wee pub in Glasgow that was hosting a special event ...
Brexit and Boris indyref 2 veto are both fruits of 2014 No vote
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 ...
Looking forward to COP26
by Róisín McLaren, SSP national co-spokesperson · This November, the biggest talking shop in the professional conference circuit comes to Glasgow, the UN Conference of ...
Today the choice is still ‘socialism or barbarism’
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 ...
Yes campaign must secure majority support in 2020
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Tens of thousands of independence supporters marched through Glasgow last weekend—in appalling weather—to protest against ...
For democracy, for people and for planet, oppose Tory minority rule
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 ...
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