For action against poverty and insecurity
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The British TUC meets in Manchester for its annual congress, 150 years after its founding meeting in the Mechanics ...
All that’s solid melts in air as crisis explodes across political spectrum
by Ken Ferguson • At Westminster and Holyrood, ‘crisis’ is the political word of the moment. In Edinburgh, the snowballing crisis sparked by the sex allegations against ...
The shine comes off both Nicola and Corbyn-mania
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • Jeremy Corbyn was in Scotland last week. He told listeners to Radio Four’s World at One that, “Scottish Socialist Party ...
The nukes of hazard
by David Mackenzie • Once again people worldwide will be commemorated the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Some gathered at spots committed to ...
Action urgent to save people and planet
by Ken Ferguson • 73 years after the US dropped Atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki the shape of the infamous mushroom cloud still hangs over humanity and menaces our ...
Pakistan’s most rigged general elections
by Farooq Tariq, Spokesperson, Awami Workers Party, in Pakistan • On 26 July 2018, in his election victory speech, Imran Khan gave a sober talk contrary to his very violent ...
Nae nukes!
David McKenzie reports on the peace movement in the run up to September’s Faslane demo • “International”—a funny word. In one common parlance it’s about ...
Time to nationalise the railways
by Gordon Martin, Scottish Organiser, RMT • With the rail network across much of England in total meltdown due to the incompetence of various Train Operating Companies and ...
Demos are essential but they’re not enough
by Ken Ferguson • Temperatures soar to new heights as Glasgow gets hotter than Greece and, as we go to press with this Voice, the heatwave stretches on. Likewise in the ...
Class challenges not liberalism can halt Trump and his populist allies
by Hugh Cullen • Plenty has been said to characterise Trump as a slimy sociopathic predator. His persistent lies and disregard for human life sparks protest around the ...
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