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Focus on personality a diversion from urgent action needed now

September 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · The long slow decomposition of recently all powerful Scottish Labour reached its latest stage with the failed “chicken coup” against erstwhile leader Richard Leonard at the ...

Brexit and Boris indyref 2 veto are both fruits of 2014 No vote

February 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · However much Voice readers may want not to the 55 per cent No vote in 2014 means we currently live in a Britain firmly governed by a reactionary right wing populist Tory ...

Today the choice is still ‘socialism or barbarism’

January 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · A century after Rosa Luxemburg coined, amidst the mechanised slaughter of the great imperialist war, the slogan “Socialism or Barbarism” if anything it is more relevant than ...

Yes campaign must secure majority support in 2020

January 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Tens of thousands of independence supporters marched through Glasgow last weekend—in appalling weather—to protest against the fact Scotland is once ...

For democracy, for people and for planet, oppose Tory minority rule

December 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Yet again, the bitter fruits of the supposed caring British union are visited on Scotland in the form of Tory minority rule, rejected overwhelmingly by Scottish voters. Sadly this ...

Powerful disdain democracy across the planet

November 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · We live in a planet dominated by the pitiless forces of giant corporations, big money and a handful of mega rich individuals backed by saturation propaganda and, ultimately brute ...

Whoever wins UK poll, people’s action is key to winning indyref 2 and changing Scotland

November 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · As the Voice goes to press, the Brexit extension has been agreed by the EU and Johnson has got his desired general election, amidst much ducking and diving on dates and ...

Brexit or not, colossal battles lie ahead

October 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Deal or no deal, Leave or Remain, whatever finally emerges from the Brexit drama, the sea of challenges facing working people will still offer poverty pay, housing shortages, ...

In a world of spin, the facts will set you free

May 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · The cheering which met the supposedly stunning defeat of the SNP leadership on a Scottish currency had barely died down when the party’s legendary spin machine went into ...

SSP indy call: back real change

May 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Last weekend’s SNP Conference voted to endorse the Sustainable Growth Commission’s case for independence. Or did it? For whilst the media focused on ...