Scottish Socialist Voice

40-year free market fairytale exposed, as public ownership returns centre stage

April 22, 2025

by Ken Ferguson • Leave aside the panicky Saturday recall of parliament amidst a welter of sub Churchillian guff about the ‘national interest’. The real story in the ...

Tenementals’ radical debut album ‘conjures a constellation of possibilities’

April 6, 2025

Glasgow: A History (Vol. I of VI) by The Tenementals, LP/CD/digital album on Strength In Numbers Records. (Photo: Julia Bauer) Album review by Malcolm McGonigle • Pop music ...

For struggle and socialist policies to end Labour’s class war

April 6, 2025

by Richie Venton, SSP national trade union organiser • A new and vicious class war against the working class has been unleashed, against the sick, the disabled, children, ...

Labour promises of prosperity based on slaughter are the ultimate betrayal

April 6, 2025

by Ken Ferguson • Capitalist cheerleader Chancellor Reeves’s so-called “spring statement” which plunged tens of thousands into poverty and placed the development and ...

Miners’ strike book is a lesson in class war

March 16, 2025

• Class War on Workers: the great miners’ strike 1984-85 and its aftermath by Richie Venton. A Scottish Socialist Party publication, available here If we know our ...

Worker responses to AI

March 16, 2025

by John Bratton • In the last issue, I explored how AI already poses tangible harms to our planet, society, and workers. While AI has significant benefits, for example, in ...

Politicians target working class to pay war butcher’s bill

March 15, 2025

(Pic: Craig Maclean) by Ken Ferguson • Whether it was Lenin or John Maclean that said it the truth remains: “A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at both ends.” This ...

Save our NHS from privatisation, under-funding and poor leadership

February 18, 2025

Colin Fox: “We want our NHS to be owned by, and accountable to the people of Scotland, not profiteering private companies…” (Pic: Craig Maclean) by Colin ...

Trump’s shock and awe has Starmer cowering

February 18, 2025

by Ken Ferguson • More mature Voice readers may remember where they were when they first encountered “shock and awe” as massive explosions lit up the Baghdad skyline on ...

AI and employment: algorithmic control threatens workers’ autonomy and dignity

February 18, 2025

by John Bratton • In the last issue, I explained that artificial intelligence (AI) is neither ‘artificial’ nor ‘intelligent’ and algorithms — the lists of ...