Scottish Socialist Voice

How useful the internet is depends on who’s using it

July 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Scott Macdonald · Covid-19 (C-19) has exposed the contradictions inherent in 21st century capitalism. While Richard Branson brings his billionaire begging bowl to the public purse for a handout, ...

A world we must win

July 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Voice readers will be familiar with that famous socialist slogan “workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains, you have a world to win.” Well, as we ...

VOICE EXTRA: Unison backs National Care Service plan

June 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

Calls are growing in support of the SSP’S demand for a publicly owned and regulated National Care Service. The UK’s biggest union UNISON has called for a replacement to the existing “broken” ...

VOICE EXTRA: Tory lockdown mayhem – organise workers for safety first

May 13, 2020 // 1 Comment

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Boris Johnson’s TV broadcast to ‘the nation’ and subsequent twists, turns and publication of documents on ‘rebuilding the ...

VOICE EXTRA: Union membership – questions of life and death

April 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

International Workers’ Memorial Day, 28 April · Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don’t die of mystery ailments, or in tragic “accidents”. They die ...

VOICE EXTRA: Covid-19, poverty and the climate emergency – the global crises that only socialists can solve

April 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Graeme Cullen and Hugh Cullen · If the COP26 conference takes place in Glasgow next year, world leaders must discuss the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on the struggle to reduce global ...

Tories cost workers’ lives

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Lions led by donkeys in the war on C-19 · “Lions led by donkeys” was the wildly popular insult levelled at incompetent, aloof Generals as they threw masses of soldiers into senseless slaughter ...

Who will foot C-19 bill?

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · It is said that when the British Army finally lost the revolutionary war with the US they marched away from the surrender ceremony playing a march called The World Turned Upside ...

VOICE EXTRA: Demand an immediate £12-an-hour minimum for the ‘Minimum Wage Heroes’

April 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · As even the BBC’s Panorama was obliged to express it, “millions of minimum wage heroes are putting their lives on the line.” ...

Covid-19 lockdown highlights Britain’s public health policy

March 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Britain is in a dark place today, one it has never inhabited before. The Government’s ‘lockdown’ leaves an old world behind for ever. Nothing is ...