‘A social wrong as great as the poll tax’
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
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 ...
All that’s solid melts in air amidst Brexit crisis
by Ken Ferguson · Even the most hardened journalists, activists and politicians now stand on the edge of Brexit bafflement as things unthinkable one day enter the mainstream ...
Seafarers who took on fascists are honoured with new Glasgow memorial
The Glasgow Shipping branch of the RMT union recently hosted a gathering of local, national and international supporters at the unveiling of a plaque and statue on the banks ...
Neither tragedy nor farce but action for real change can save the day
by Ken Ferguson · If Marx was right when he wrote the famous dictum that history repeats itself first as tragedy than as farce you have to wonder where on that scale lies ...
Pupils strike for climate action
by Nathan Roberts, whyconserve.com · According to the student-driven movement, FridaysForFuture, 15 March 2019 was a global day of action when 1.4 million schoolchildren and ...
Congo: the new era
by Debora Kayembe · International outrage and one of the first major human rights campaigns in modern history led to the Belgian government taking Congo off King Leopold’s ...
Don’t believe the hype: support the Venezuelan Revolution
by Bill Bonnar, SSP international secretary · In 2010 Haiti, a close neighbour of Cuba, was hit by a devastating earthquake. The impact on the poverty shattered people of ...
Time the left faced indy’s new challenges
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Isn’t it strange how Brexit is being blamed for everything from Honda’s decision to close its Swindon factory to the ...
Lecturers’ strike: ‘If we don’t win, it won’t just be a day’s strike pay we’ll be losing’
A striking college lecturer speaks to the Voice · “College lecturers are on our third week of strike action for a cost of living pay rise dating back two years. What ...
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