history – Scottish Socialist Voice

The Events in Ireland: Working Class Unity and Socialism to Combat Racism

July 3, 2026

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

June 30, 2026

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 ...

Election heralds urgent need to break with passivity and head for real change

May 13, 2026

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 ...

Save Our Fire and Rescue Service

May 6, 2026

by Colin Brown, FBU NEC member for Scotland AS WE HEAD INTO STUC congress #26, the pressures being faced across the entire public sector are once again laid bare for all to ...

A Socialist Campaign to be proud of… but it’s not over yet!

May 1, 2026

By SSP Election Campaign Organiser Richie Venton CONSIDERING OUR lack of resources, the SSP has staged a phenomenal election campaign, popularising socialist measures that ...

Crisis will still dominate after 7 May: The Left must rise to the challenge

April 26, 2026

Pic: Craig Maclean Editorial by Ken Ferguson WHEN THE VOICE after this one you are now reading appears the full outcome of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senned and English ...

An Attack on Cuba or Venezuela is an Attack on All of Latin America

March 6, 2026

by Bill Bonnar, SSP International Officer A CONTAINER SHIP carrying food and medical equipment to Cuba arrives from Mexico. It is the first of several such humanitarian aid ...

A tangled weave of corruption and profiteering… That’s Capitalism!

February 20, 2026

By Richie Venton, SSP national trade union organiser “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”, said Marcellus in Shakespeare’s Hamlet – a play suffused ...

Mandelson crisis lifts lid on greed and corruption at heart of the ‘free market’

February 18, 2026

By Ken Ferguson JUST A COUPLE of Voice issues ago, we recalled Lenin’s remark that there are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen. We are now living ...

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 ...