Women football fans need to be heard
by Erin Slaven · Since the introduction of the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act in 2012, there has been much debate about the legitimacy of the legislation. The Act went ...
Like October Revolution a century ago, Voice #500 appears in a world in turmoil
by Ken Ferguson • This 500th edition of the Scottish Socialist Voice marks a major landmark both for the paper and the pro-independence socialist politics it stands for. ...
The coup against Catalonia: what resistance strategy?
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Everyone had been expecting a war of position: the Spanish state would behead the Catalan government, sack its senior executives, purge the ...
RMT launches nationalise Northlink Ferries campaign
by Gordon Martin, Regional Organiser, RMT • Following on from RMT’s high profile and ultimately successful campaign to “Keep CalMac Public” the Union is now heavily ...
Reflections of a Voice veteran as paper reaches 500th issue
by Roz Paterson • The Scottish Socialist Voice, the first socialist newspaper to be written and published in Scotland since Tom Johnstone’s Forward, is quite the grande ...
Catalonia’s referendum: a triumph for democracy built on people’s power
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Is it possible to have a successful referendum when your country is effectively occupied by 10,000 police and paramilitaries with orders to ...
Democracy: the people’s weapon elites fear
by Ken Ferguson • That one image of a heavily armoured baton wielding Spanish riot cop attacking Catalan voters tells us more about the fragile nature of democracy than a ...
Is climate change turning our food to junk?
Roz Paterson looks at some worrying new research • One thing we can all agree on—and that includes even the most right-wing, climate-change sceptical, oil-drunk ...
A hurricane with no shelter for people with disabilities
Sandra Webster warns of the looming cruelties of Universal Credit • When big business is saying that this Tory Government are no longer the party of big business and ...
At Holyrood and Westminster, crisis is the new normal
by Ken Ferguson • As autumn draws on, crisis is the new normal across UK and Scottish politics. Scottish Labour faces a fresh leadership crisis, Scotland’s Tories face ...
