Scottish Socialist Voice

Council Tax is Scotland’s #1 debt issue: axe it now!

March 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Voice Reporter · As Scotland’s councils met to set their budget for the new financial year Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) revealed that amidst the tax hikes, cuts and job losses Council Tax ...

Covid-19 is not the only virus we face

March 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · This Voice goes to press amidst amidst a growing tide of concern among both the public and governments about the scale, spread, health implications and wider social impact of a ...

VOICE EXTRA: Defy all cuts – there IS an alternative to capitulation!

February 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

As Scotland’s councils meet to set their budgets, the reality is that we face yet another round of cuts, job losses and Council Tax hikes. Scottish Socialists say that it doesn’t have to be that ...

VOICE EXTRA: Four fights – one struggle!

February 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

As University and College Union (UCU) members at 74 universities stage an escalating 14 days’ strike action, SSP national workplace organiser Richie Venton spoke to David McKee, UCU member at ...

Alasdair Gray: art, literature should represent ‘the most necessary and typical people’

February 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Writer and artist Alasdair Gray died in December. Here, Andrew Givan offers a tribute and a recollection · It was a cosy wee pub in Glasgow that was hosting a special event of writers doing ...

Brexit and Boris indyref 2 veto are both fruits of 2014 No vote

February 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · However much Voice readers may want not to the 55 per cent No vote in 2014 means we currently live in a Britain firmly governed by a reactionary right wing populist Tory ...

Looking forward to COP26

January 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Róisín McLaren, SSP national co-spokesperson · This November, the biggest talking shop in the professional conference circuit comes to Glasgow, the UN Conference of Parties (COP26). COP is the ...

Today the choice is still ‘socialism or barbarism’

January 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · A century after Rosa Luxemburg coined, amidst the mechanised slaughter of the great imperialist war, the slogan “Socialism or Barbarism” if anything it is more relevant than ...

Yes campaign must secure majority support in 2020

January 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Tens of thousands of independence supporters marched through Glasgow last weekend—in appalling weather—to protest against the fact Scotland is once ...

For democracy, for people and for planet, oppose Tory minority rule

December 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Yet again, the bitter fruits of the supposed caring British union are visited on Scotland in the form of Tory minority rule, rejected overwhelmingly by Scottish voters. Sadly this ...