history – Scottish Socialist Voice

The Great War Xmas Truce, 1914: Not a miracle at Christmas, but a rebellion

December 22, 2025

by Natalie Reid, SSP Co-Spokesperson MOST OF US have heard the famous stories of the football matches played between British and German troops on Christmas Day in 1914. This ...

Trust, Politics, and Power: The BBC at a Crossroads

November 21, 2025

by Paul Holleran, former NUJ Scottish Organiser A THRIVING, DIVERSE broadcasting and press media — not manipulated by the rich and powerful — is essential to democracy in ...

Miners’ strike book is a lesson in class war

March 16, 2025

• Class War on Workers: the great miners’ strike 1984-85 and its aftermath by Richie Venton. A Scottish Socialist Party publication, available here If we know our ...

Worker responses to AI

March 16, 2025

by John Bratton • In the last issue, I explored how AI already poses tangible harms to our planet, society, and workers. While AI has significant benefits, for example, in ...

Rosa Luxemburg: socialist icon

January 18, 2019

by Colin Turbett • 100 years ago this month, Rosa Luxemburg was beaten up and shot dead in Berlin by Freikorps members, the forerunners of the Nazis, on the implicit ...

Unions must break from Labour Tories: stop funding arsonists to torch your home!

November 7, 2014

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser On 1 July 2014 I wrote an article for the Voice—“Ructions after the Referendum”—which included the statement: ...

Restless Land: a radical history that needs to be in every school and college

August 23, 2014

Book review: Restless Land – a Radical Journey Through Scotland’s History by Alan McCombes and Roz Paterson. Published by Calton Books, 2014 by Pam Currie Well, I thought ...

‘A pub full of revolutionaries who want nothing to change’

August 23, 2014

Book review: The Story of Sandy Bells: Edinburgh’s World Famous Folk Bar by Gillian Ferguson. Published by Troubador by Allan Armstrong Sandy Bell’s on Forrest Road is ...

Restless Land: A people’s narrative of Scottish history

August 1, 2014

Book launch: Restless Land by Alan McCombes and Roz Paterson, published by Calton Books and distributed by AK Press by Frances Curran It was a book launch but not as we know ...