europe

The Tories made this Brexit crisis: we refuse to pay for it

January 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Amidst the smoke of the Brexit battle and May’s defeat with the rejection of her EU deal by a stunning 230 votes, the official media endorsed hand wringing about the process is ...

Peoples’ interests remain in austerity’s cross hairs

December 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • How many Tory MPs will rebel? Will May fall? Deal or no deal? As the Voice goes to press, the swirl of speculation among the political classes, media “experts” and policy ...

‘Syriza: no longer a laboratory for hope but a cause for despair…’

August 18, 2017 // 1 Comment

by Colin Fox • Book review: The Syriza Wave – Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left by Helena Sheehan. Published by Monthly Review Press, £16.99 • In the decade since the banking crisis ...

The sound and fury of a Brexit-backing climate change denier

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Roz Paterson takes a look at the views of Tory grandee Lord Lawson • Weary of Brexit? Fed up with climate change? Come on then, let’s talk about Nigel Lawson. For those of you too young to ...

Politics of fear can be beaten

March 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Seldom has radical socialist change been more urgently needed but apparently more difficult to achieve than today. In Scotland, tens of thousands exist on poverty pay, languish in ...

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 ...

Dutch far right: text book lesson harnessing failures of globalisation

December 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Jack Ferguson, in Amsterdam • December 9th marked the culmination of a two-year publicity stunt by the leader of the modern Dutch far right, Geert Wilders. The leader and founder of the Party ...

Celtic fans’ £188,800 Palestine solidarity

September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Liam McLaughlin • Voice readers will be probably be aware that in the most recent home match in the Uefa Champions League, Celtic fans were beamed across TV screens and social media channels ...

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 ...

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 ...