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From Athens to London: elites entrench rich minority rule

August 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson The brutal crushing of the Greek people by the unelected Troika heaps further economic misery on them in order to sustain a neoliberal economic order whose central aim is to reverse ...

Workers ask: Whose side are the parties on?

March 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser You could be forgiven for forgetting that the working class make up the vast majority of the population, judging by how our interests and ...

Service Tax challenge to council austerity budgets

February 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

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, council administrations have ...

Voters demand more powers – polls predict Labour meltdown

February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson As a Tory, Lord Ashcroft has every interest in undermining Labour’s morale ahead of May’s General Election. Yet his latest poll of 16 Scottish ...

The door is opening to a Scotland of real change

February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Despite installing supposed street fighter Jim Murphy as leader, the peoples party’s slide continues. As we report elsewhere in this issue, the ...

Defy all cuts: there is an alternative

January 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser The contrast could not be starker. As the people of Greece give a resounding NO! to austerity, the councillors of Scotland are poised to vote YES to ...

Fat cat rule under pressure as No camp’s lies are unmasked

October 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Just weeks from the No vote, the bitter reality behind the cynical promises of the Westminster parties about caring and sharing Britain grows ever ...