Why No One Believes John Swinney Will Deliver Independence
By Colin Fox, SSP National Co-Spokesperson Andy Burnham was in Motherwell this week [article originally published mid-October] on a visit designed to overshadow the SNP ...
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France Protests: An On-the-Ground Report
By Roy Doig in Carcassonne Despite desperate attempts by right wing politicians and media to portray the French protests as violent riots, hundreds of thousands of students, ...
‘Tax the Rich’ to provide jobs for our young people, to end the worst crisis the NHS has ever faced, and to build the council houses we have been promised for the past 25 years
By Colin Fox With the NHS facing the worst crisis in its history, Scotland trapped in a cost-of-living crisis and a chronic shortage of affordable housing, there is much John ...
STRUGGLE OR STARVE! Resist the slaughter of jobs, wages and services with socialist demands!
By Richie Venton, SSP national trade union organiser Scotland’s public services face devastation, with the political parties in charge both at Holyrood and local ...
Editorial: Before Our Eyes the Failures of Profiteers’ Rule Dominate Our Planet
By Ken Ferguson The sheer horror of the flash floods in Nepal and Tibet that brought death, mass destruction and unquantifiable human misery with them is also the starkest ...
“We’ve Had Enough!” – Fight Back Against Attacks on Glasgow City Council Workers
By Richie Venton “We’ve had enough!” chanted several hundred council workers at a hastily organised, angry demonstration outside the meeting of Glasgow City ...
Editorial: ‘Those who the gods would destroy, they first make mad…’
THE FAMOUS WORDS of Greek tragedian Euripides, written thousands of years ago, might well have been written as a commentary on our own times. As this Voice goes to press we ...
The Events in Ireland: Working Class Unity and Socialism to Combat Racism
By Richie Venton (who grew up in County Fermanagh) In early June, Belfast witnessed the worst street violence in decades. Gangs of black-clad boys and men, in masks and ...
South Africa’s Conference of the Left: Rebuilding working-class power beyond fragmentation
by Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara, Member of the SteeringCommittee, Conference of the Left SOUTH AFRICA’S Conference of the Left, held from 29 to 31 May 2026 in Boksburg, was not a ...
Editorial: Election heralds urgent need to break with passivity and head for real change
by Ken Ferguson IN SCOTLAND, the election contains both positives and negatives with the balance coming down, at least provisionally’, on the progressive side. The ...
