climate – Scottish Socialist Voice

Mainstream middle ground politics ignores the urgent realities of people and planet

August 24, 2023

Editorial by Ken Ferguson On every hand — Tory, Starmer Labour and the increasingly divided SNP — mainstream politicians share one key characteristic, in that they claim ...

Just Transition only can solve Mossmorran’s pollution and preserve jobs

November 20, 2020

by Councillor Mary Lockhart · On 5 October 2020, pilots of aircraft approaching Edinburgh Airport radioed Air Traffic Control to ask if it was safe to land. Their flight ...

Public ownership essential to meet climate and Covid crises

October 30, 2020

by Ken Ferguson · The total failure of the SNP’s attempt to save fabrication jobs at BiFab while playing by the EU’s market friendly state aid ban can truly be ...

Focus on personality a diversion from urgent action needed now

September 18, 2020

by Ken Ferguson · The long slow decomposition of recently all powerful Scottish Labour reached its latest stage with the failed “chicken coup” against erstwhile leader ...

A world we must win

July 3, 2020

by Ken Ferguson · Voice readers will be familiar with that famous socialist slogan “workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains, you have a world ...

VOICE EXTRA: Covid-19, poverty and the climate emergency – the global crises that only socialists can solve

April 13, 2020

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 ...

Support the Strike for Climate

September 20, 2019

by Róisín McLaren, SSP national co-spokesperson · The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) sent our support to the school strikers taking part in the Friday 20th Strike for ...