Scottish Socialist Voice

Asbjørn Wahl: ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’

May 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

Norwegian author, trade unionist and activist Asbjørn Wahl spoke to Voice editor Ken Ferguson on some key themes of April’s Voice Forum • The Voice Forum in Edinburgh last month took as its ...

Turn the tide of the elites

April 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Missiles fly, state sponsored racism is uncovered, Westminster’s McVey backs the rape clause, and overhanging it all, the Empire fantasises of the hard Tory extremists set the ...

Climate change: Big Oil knew all along

April 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • You know what the worst thing is? They knew all along. Yes, they did! But then, you knew they knew, didn’t you? In your heart of hearts. In a sea of knowledge, they just ...

RMT considers re-affiliating to Labour

April 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Colin Turbett • Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard reiterated his party’s recent commitment to bring ScotRail back into public hands at April’s STUC conference in Aviemore. A press ...

Voice Forum on Brexit, 28 April, Edinburgh

March 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

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British state a roadblock to change not a route to it

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • With each passing day the elite running the British state grow increasingly delusional and thus increasingly dangerous. However those on the left who portray this as some kind of ...

Catalan movement struggles for united strategy against the Spanish state

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • “General strike!”, “General strike!”, “General strike!”: in protests across the whole of Catalonia after the March 23 jailing of five MPs and the March ...

Free public transport can bring social justice and slash pollution

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • Whether or not Margaret Thatcher ever actually stated that a 26 year old man riding on a bus should consider himself a failure, taking the bus in UK plc has long since ceased to ...

University bosses on the run: keep chasing them!

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • Strikes work! Well organised collective action, with full involvement and mobilisation of union members, can put to flight even the most ...

A beautiful protest in ugly times

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

Album review: Resistance is Futile by Manic Street Preachers. Released on Columbia Records CD/DL/LP on 13 April ★★★★★ • by Simon Whittle • It’s been four years since the Manics ...