Solidarity and internationalism of May Day never more vital
by Ken Ferguson • In world ravaged by war and seemingly chained by all powerful globalised capital, the spirit of international solidarity at the heart of May Day is more ...
Assaults on workers’ rights take shine off Dundee’s V&A
by Mike Arnott, secretary, Dundee Trades Council • On 18 April, the first day of the STUC Congress, our Dundee Trades Union Council delegation became aware of an issue ...
It is difficult swimming against the tide – but swim we must…
by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate, Lothians • The 2016 Holyrood elections remind me of 1997. I was the agent for the Scottish Socialist Alliance candidate in Edinburgh ...
Chernobyl: 30 years on
Roz Paterson looks at the disaster and what has happened since • Thirty years ago this week, a reactor exploded at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and for a few days, this ...
RISE to put indyref2, economic and social justice at centre of campaign
by Voice Reporter • The tax-dodging scandal exposed by the Panama papers showing the London money moguls up to their necks in hiding tax dodgers billions in what are ...
School closures further expose cost of Labour moneylenders fiasco
by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate in the Lothians • As the Voice went to press, the Scottish Parliament elections were dominated by the closure of 17 of Edinburgh’s ...
Land reform: much remains to be done
by Roz Paterson • “I have described the Grampians as a great faunal region—and so, according to our twentieth-century standards, it is. I ought rather to have ...
Unions must take action for £10NOW
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The season of major trade union conferences is kicking off, amidst the cacophony of barefaced lies about the ...
Council leader Burns must go over Edinburgh schools scandal demands Colin Fox
• RISE Lothians candidate Colin Fox has demanded the resignation of Edinburgh council chief Andrew Burns over the closure of 17 city schools as too unsafe to be used. Fox ...
French Indignados and the new movement #NuitDeboutPartout in March 2016
For those who do not speak French, ‘Nuit Debout Partout’ means ‘Night (that is) Standing Everywhere’, Sophia Lycouris writes. This term started as ‘Nuit Debout’, ...
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