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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 ...

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 ...