Scottish Socialist Voice

A clean green Scotland is possible… if we act quickly

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Annie Morgan, Glasgow South SSP • The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that we have little more than a decade to curb emissions or face catastrophic climate ...

100 years on, the choice is still socialism or barbarism

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • This Voice goes to press amidst a media clamour marking the centenary of the armistice which finally ended the imperialist slaughter of World War One. By coincidence, it is also ...

Sleeves-rolled-up time for peace activists

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by David McKenzie • Trump has confirmed that the US will unilaterally pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). This is a bi-lateral treaty between the US and Russia and bans ...

All that is solid melts into thin air

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

Book review: Like a Thief in Broad Daylight by Slavoj Žižek. Published by Allen Lane, 2018 • review by Colin Fox • I read Slavoj Žižek’s new book Like a Thief in Broad Daylight in Venice ...

Glam politicos mark 50 years of QMU

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter • Glam provocateurs Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues will mark 50 years of the Queen Margaret Union (QMU) building in Glasgow with a special gig at the venue on 30 November. The QMU ...

Anti-fascist techno hip hop punks head to Edinburgh

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter • Moscow Death Brigade (MDB) is an anti-fascist techno/rap/punk phenomenon from Russia that plays ‘Circle Pit Hip-Hop’. They’re a burning Molotov of electronic music, ...

Westminster not a motorway to change

October 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • After a summer smearing Corbyn as an anti-semite, in time honoured fashion, the millionaire-dominated media changed tack at Liverpool. The tale now is of a dangerously left wing ...

Record numbers swindled out of statutory minimum wage

October 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • One million people in Scotland live in poverty today according to Government figures and most of them are working. It used to be the case that work was ...

For action against poverty and insecurity

September 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 Institute of the same city. ...

All that’s solid melts in air as crisis explodes across political spectrum

September 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 former First Minister ...