VOICE EXTRA: Union membership – questions of life and death
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
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
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?
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’
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
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 ...
Crisis tears up neoliberal rule book
by Ken Ferguson · Inevitably, this Voice is largely devoted to the planetary Covid-19 crisis and its impact on workers, communities, economics and indeed our entire capitalist market economy, which ...
VOICE EXTRA: Covid-19 crisis opens window on the multi-dimensional guilt of neoliberalism
by Ken Ferguson · A spectre certainly is haunting the planet with the rapidly escalating Covid-19 crisis, with countries in lockdown, pillars of today’s supposedly free market utopia such as ...
The DWP forces young disabled woman to beg
by Chloe Maclean · Despite austerity being declared over by Boris Johnson, the action of the DWP does not seem to have changed. In fact, very little seems to have changed for ordinary people. On ...
Council Tax is Scotland’s #1 debt issue: axe it now!
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 ...
