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VOICE EXTRA: Defy all cuts – there IS an alternative to capitulation!

February 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

As Scotland’s councils meet to set their budgets, the reality is that we face yet another round of cuts, job losses and Council Tax hikes. Scottish Socialists say that it doesn’t have to be that ...

Protecting the most vulnerable… Tory style

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster • The mantra of the caring, sharing Tory party is “We will protect the most vulnerable.” It was banged out during the last general election campaign at regular intervals. ...

Meeting people’s priorities is key to winning indyref 2

December 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Amidst the all enveloping fog of Brexit claim and counter claim, the outline of what lies ahead appears with growing clarity. In the run up to the June Euro poll, the Voice ...

Action against benefit sanctions must increase

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Jack Ferguson • The release of Ken Loach’s new film I, Daniel Blake marks a cultural landmark, and is destined to be the defining way in which the injustice of modern so-called “welfare ...

Brexit battles smokescreen as Tory hard right show teeth

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • The conventional media wisdom that the British state is in confusion post the Brexit vote is a best lazy thinking and in some respects dangerous nonsense. The Tory right is firmly ...

Smoke and spin no answer to real challenges facing people

August 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • If history repeats itself as Marx claimed first as tragedy and then farce nobody seems to have told Labour deputy leader Tom Watson. Right wing Watson got into his time machine ...

The SNP’s named person initiative: storm in a teacup?

August 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Colin Turbett, author of ‘Doing Radical Social Work’ • If we are going to judge the SNP’s performance in government in Scotland let’s do so on issues that really affect working people ...

Benefit cuts link to deaths

October 2, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson All deaths impact on the family and friends of the person who has died. Especially so when it is by someone’s own hand. Frequently, suicide is ...

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 ...

The more Cameron vilifies the SNP, the more Scots voters flock to the nationalists

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson This General Election appears to be a foregone conclusion. The polls all predict another hung Parliament. And the more David Cameron vilifies the SNP (in ...