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 world of politics 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 world and in liberal ...
Class challenge key to Yes win
by Ken Ferguson • High end corporate lobbyists Charlotte Street Partners’ New Town offices, which service the needs of the elites who dominate life in today’s Scotland, is the natural habitat ...
As SNP put NorthLink ferries out to tender, RMT pledge to continue nationalisation fight
by Gordon Martin, Scottish Regional Organiser, RMT • Following several months of will-they-or-won’t-they, the SNP Scottish Government delivered the news on Thursday 24 May that they wouldn’t ...
As BGT winner’s inspiration is hailed, attacks on disabled rights must end
by Sandra Webster • I have to admit to not being a fan of the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. I saw the result show after reading that two people with disabilities one with autism and one ...
Growth Report ignores working class
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • Andrew Wilson’s long awaited Sustainable Growth Commission Report was finally published last week, and it has gone down like the proverbial lead ...
Capitalism still needs its accusers
by Ken Ferguson • For socialist anniversary hunters, 2018 provides a bumper harvest—Marx’s 200th, Paris May 1968’s 50th, The Communist Manifesto’s 170th, James Connolly’s 150th—just to ...
UK’s richest man vs Scottish democracy: INEOS challenge fracking moratorium
by Roz Paterson • INEOS, one of Scotland’s favourite oil companies (just kiddin’), is hoping to slug it out with the Scottish Government (SG) in the High Court over fracking. Briefly, the SG ...
Asbjørn Wahl: ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’
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
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 ...
