Scottish Socialist Voice

As Trump’s pal Boris powers ahead, it’s clear there’s no good Tory choice

June 21, 2019

by Ken Ferguson · As the crisis wracked Tories, for centuries the premier pillar of the British state, fall in behind proven blunderer, racist and imperial fantasist Johnson ...

What are the progressive class solutions in climate change debate?

June 21, 2019

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · I’m looking forward to the Scottish Socialist Voice Forum on how to counter the threat climate change poses in ways that ...

We’re told people are selfish – Roz Paterson proved otherwise

June 1, 2019

Obituary: Roz Paterson, 13 June 1966 – 6 May 2019 • by Alan McCombes, former Voice editor • A bright light has gone out in the lives of many people across Scotland and ...

Surreal Euro polls put crisis of the British state in the spotlight

June 1, 2019

by Ken Ferguson • Historically a bye word for stability, statecraft and order, the British state is now facing political and constitutional disarray on a unimagined scale. ...

John Auld: a modest, sincere, dedicated socialist stalwart

June 1, 2019

Obituary: John Auld, 13 October 1940–19 May 2019 • by Richie Venton • It was with great sadness and sense of loss we said goodbye to longstanding SSP comrade and ...

In a world of spin, the facts will set you free

May 3, 2019

by Ken Ferguson · The cheering which met the supposedly stunning defeat of the SNP leadership on a Scottish currency had barely died down when the party’s legendary spin ...

SSP indy call: back real change

May 3, 2019

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Last weekend’s SNP Conference voted to endorse the Sustainable Growth Commission’s case for independence. Or did it? For ...

John Maclean: greatest of the Red Clydesiders

May 3, 2019

by Bill Bonnar · This year (August 24th) marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of John Maclean. It also marks the 100th anniversary of Red Clydeside yet no memorial to ...

‘A social wrong as great as the poll tax’

April 11, 2019

by Sandra Webster · April: a time of rebirth of new opportunities. Our government is using the Brexit debates to hide some very bad news and ridiculous payments to those ...

SSP activists mark minimum wage increase with push for £10-an-hour

April 11, 2019

by Voice Reporter · The National Minimum Wage went up by 38p on Monday April 1st from £7.83/per hour to £8.21. The SSP marked this over the weekend by taking campaigns ...