A Socialist Campaign to be proud of… but it’s not over yet!
By SSP Election Campaign Organiser Richie Venton CONSIDERING OUR lack of resources, the SSP has staged a phenomenal election campaign, popularising socialist measures that ...
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Crisis will still dominate after 7 May: The Left must rise to the challenge
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
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!
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’
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
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
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
• 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
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
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 ...
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