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Public ownership essential to meet climate and Covid crises

October 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · The total failure of the SNP’s attempt to save fabrication jobs at BiFab while playing by the EU’s market friendly state aid ban can truly be described as a disaster. Hardest ...

Socialists must prepare for next war, not the last one

August 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · It is often said that politicians, diplomats and generals prepare to fight their battles with plans based on what happened during the last war they fought only to find that this ...

A world we must win

July 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Voice readers will be familiar with that famous socialist slogan “workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains, you have a world to win.” Well, as we ...

A clean green Scotland is possible… if we act quickly

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Annie Morgan, Glasgow South SSP • The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that we have little more than a decade to curb emissions or face catastrophic climate ...

Climate change: Big Oil knew all along

April 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • You know what the worst thing is? They knew all along. Yes, they did! But then, you knew they knew, didn’t you? In your heart of hearts. In a sea of knowledge, they just ...

Free public transport can bring social justice and slash pollution

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • Whether or not Margaret Thatcher ever actually stated that a 26 year old man riding on a bus should consider himself a failure, taking the bus in UK plc has long since ceased to ...

BiFab battle shows why we need public ownership

November 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • The successful outcome of the battle to protect the green jobs and skills at the BiFab engineering yards is a rare and highly welcome victory for workers and their unions. It is ...

Is climate change turning our food to junk?

October 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Roz Paterson looks at some worrying new research • One thing we can all agree on—and that includes even the most right-wing, climate-change sceptical, oil-drunk zealot—is that there is more ...

Trump’s climate deniers menace the planet

December 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • The blows are coming thick and fast. The conciliatory speeches are out the window and now America’s President Elect Donald Trump is talking about mass deportations, Nigel ...

Brexit puts EU-based environmental controls at risk

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • In the wake of almost certain Brexit, the pariah that is the UK may well have to prostrate itself at the feet of anyone willing to do business, even if that means abandoning ...