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Socialism and independence or Tory barbarism to the far horizon

December 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • It’s official, revealed by none other than Chancellor Hammond, falling wages and service cuts alongside housing shortages, health cuts, insecure work and falling benefits ...

Brexit vote unleashes Hydra-headed crisis opening way to Indyref 2

August 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Lenin’s famous dictum that “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” might well have been written about the hydra headed crisis ...

Brexit rocks politics and unleashes multiple crises

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • The victory for Brexit in the European referendum has unleashed a multiplicity of crises which poses the greatest threat to Westminster system since the Second World ...

Squalid system is the heart of the problem

June 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • It is pretty rare for the Voice to find itself in agreement with a leading Tory but it is hard to disagree with former Prime Minister John Major when he describes the ...

Only a left alternative can halt the populist right

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • The narrow defeat inflicted on far right Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer by Green pro-EU Alexander Van der Bellen represents both a close call for democrats across ...

For people and for planet, Scotland needs real change

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Editorial by Ken Ferguson If we are to believe the media pundits, Scottish politics is about to be a battle between a leftward moving Scottish Labour squaring up to take on an already left wing ...

Brutality of Tory cuts swells the opposition

November 11, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson As the Voice has been reporting, the cuts are getting worse. The Tories pledged to make £12billion in benefit cuts and voted in with an unexpected ...

Holyrood 2016 needs mandate for second indyref

August 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jim Sillars To know why the Scottish Parliament, after the 2016 election, must command a majority for a second independence mandate, look not only at the present but at the 2020 Westminster ...

Energy of mass independence campaign creates need for RISE

August 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jonathon Shafi We live in a historical moment marked by deep and profound ideological and social flux. If you are unconvinced by this, just think back ten years from now: Tony Blair had just won a ...

From Spain to Scotland, the power of money must be tamed

June 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson As the Tories unveil their assault on vital services, democratic rights and trade unions amidst the establishment pomp of the Queen’s speech, the need for resistance to this ...