Class Politics: the critical antidote to the far-right virus
By Ken Ferguson AS THIS LAST VOICE of 2025 goes to press, the air is thick with claim and counter-claim on a possible pact, alliance or even merger between the Tory Party — ...
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Spin, Neglect, and Anger: How Labour’s Failures Fuel the Far Right
By Ken Ferguson AS THE VOICE goes to press, the grumbling volcano of fear and resentment sparked among Labour MPs by the party’s opinion poll plunge to all-time historic ...
Wildfires shine a light on fire and rescue service cuts
The outbreak of numerous wildfires in Scotland has been news headlines in recent weeks. SSP national trade union organiser Richie Venton spoke about this to Colin Brown, the ...
40-year free market fairytale exposed, as public ownership returns centre stage
by Ken Ferguson • Leave aside the panicky Saturday recall of parliament amidst a welter of sub Churchillian guff about the ‘national interest’. The real story in the ...
Save our NHS from privatisation, under-funding and poor leadership
Colin Fox: “We want our NHS to be owned by, and accountable to the people of Scotland, not profiteering private companies…” (Pic: Craig Maclean) by Colin ...
Past time for the Left to ‘see it, say it, sort it’
Pic: Craig Maclean EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • Chancellor Reeves’ much hyped dash for growth which would take the UK in a new direction leading to sunny uplands of ...
Trump hoggs the headlines but Burns points the way ahead
EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • As 2025 unfolds and the era of Trump 2.0 begins crisis confronts us on every hand with the now openly flaunted power of the likes of Musk thrown ...
Reject Tories of all colours
by Richie Venton, SSP by-election campaign manager The Scottish Socialist Party is standing up for the working class and genuine, radical socialist change in the Rutherglen ...
Time the left faced indy’s new challenges
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Isn’t it strange how Brexit is being blamed for everything from Honda’s decision to close its Swindon factory to the ...
Westminster not a motorway to change
by Ken Ferguson • After a summer smearing Corbyn as an anti-semite, in time honoured fashion, the millionaire-dominated media changed tack at Liverpool. The tale now is of ...
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