european union

Brexit and Boris indyref 2 veto are both fruits of 2014 No vote

February 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · However much Voice readers may want not to the 55 per cent No vote in 2014 means we currently live in a Britain firmly governed by a reactionary right wing populist Tory ...

What’s Brexit got to do with it?

March 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • There is a temptation to dismiss the Brexit debate as tedious and irrelevant to the real priorities facing working people in Britain today. But the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greeks choose democracy over bankers’ barbarism

January 31, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Ken Ferguson, editor, Scottish Socialist Voice Will the needs of people be able to prevail over the extortion of the bankers and moneylenders driving austerity and misery across Europe? This is ...

‘Hope is coming. Greece is advancing. Europe is changing’

January 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Greece elects first radical left wing government in Europe since 1930s by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson, reporting from Athens “Citizens of Athens, tonight’s success is not only a ...

TTIP: a threat to democracy

November 7, 2014 // 1 Comment

by Bill Newman The innocent-sounding US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is currently being prepared behind closed doors by overpaid corporate lawyers for passage through the ...