Cross Country tries to gag union over sacking of Edinburgh RMT member
by Voice Reporter As the Voice went to press, rail union RMT accused Cross Country trains of trying to ban the distribution of fact sheets for the public and staff as the ...
SSP announces General Election challenge
The Scottish Socialist Party’s preferred option following last year’s historic referendum was to present ‘Independence Alliance’ candidates in the 2015 General ...
Sandra’s soapbox tour
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson You may find this unusual but I have never stood for election before. I have been the leafleter and the canvasser the woman ...
Meet the SSP election candidates
Colin Fox, Edinburgh South Colin Fox is the Scottish Socialist Party’s candidate in Edinburgh South for the General Election in May. Colin is the SSP’s national ...
Service Tax challenge to council austerity budgets
by Calum Martin, Edinburgh South & Midlothian SSP Council chambers across Scotland must be echoing with the sound of grating steel this week, as one after another, ...
New Cold War at heart of Ukraine crisis
by Bill Bonnar During the Cuban missile crisis of 1963 the American Government declared that it would never accept enemy nuclear weapons located near its borders nor would it ...
8th March: International Women’s Day – let’s make it happen!
by Sandra Webster, Katie Bonnar, Hollie Cameron, Jenni Gunn and Christine McVicar ‘Make it happen’ is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. The day we ...
British rulers back Saudi tyranny
by Bill Bonnar On 9 January, following the killing of journalists from the Charlie Hebdoh magazine a huge demonstration took place in Paris to condemn the attacks, show ...
The remarkable Eleanor Marx
Book review: ‘Eleanor Marx: A Life’ by Rachel Holmes (Bloomsbury 2014, £25) by Alex Miller This new and very well-written biography tells the story of the life ...
GM salmon to be let loose
Roz Paterson reports Q: When is a fish not a fish? A: When it’s a commodity. OK, not exactly side-splitting, but then the introduction of Genetically Engineered (GE) salmon ...
