Free public transport: SSP day of action
by Hugh Cullen, SSP National Secretary · SSP branches and members took to bus, ferry, train, tram and subway stations on Saturday 15 June, campaigning for Free Public Transport as part of a national ...
As Trump’s pal Boris powers ahead, it’s clear there’s no good Tory choice
by Ken Ferguson · As the crisis wracked Tories, for centuries the premier pillar of the British state, fall in behind proven blunderer, racist and imperial fantasist Johnson a pitiless spotlight is ...
What are the progressive class solutions in climate change debate?
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · I’m looking forward to the Scottish Socialist Voice Forum on how to counter the threat climate change poses in ways that enrich and improve the lives ...
We’re told people are selfish – Roz Paterson proved otherwise
Obituary: Roz Paterson, 13 June 1966 – 6 May 2019 • by Alan McCombes, former Voice editor • A bright light has gone out in the lives of many people across Scotland and beyond. Cruelly struck ...
Surreal Euro polls put crisis of the British state in the spotlight
by Ken Ferguson • Historically a bye word for stability, statecraft and order, the British state is now facing political and constitutional disarray on a unimagined scale. Already gridlocked ...
John Auld: a modest, sincere, dedicated socialist stalwart
Obituary: John Auld, 13 October 1940–19 May 2019 • by Richie Venton • It was with great sadness and sense of loss we said goodbye to longstanding SSP comrade and friend John Auld, who died ...
In a world of spin, the facts will set you free
by Ken Ferguson · The cheering which met the supposedly stunning defeat of the SNP leadership on a Scottish currency had barely died down when the party’s legendary spin machine went into ...
SSP indy call: back real change
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Last weekend’s SNP Conference voted to endorse the Sustainable Growth Commission’s case for independence. Or did it? For whilst the media focused on ...
John Maclean: greatest of the Red Clydesiders
by Bill Bonnar · This year (August 24th) marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of John Maclean. It also marks the 100th anniversary of Red Clydeside yet no memorial to those tumultuous events ...
‘A social wrong as great as the poll tax’
by Sandra Webster · April: a time of rebirth of new opportunities. Our government is using the Brexit debates to hide some very bad news and ridiculous payments to those with the most need. Surely ...
