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Editorial: Illusion and Reality – What Do Leaders’ Speeches Actually Mean?

October 21, 2026

By Ken Ferguson This Voice is publishing only a matter of days before the contents of the Burnham Labour government’s budget is due to be revealed in the House of Commons . ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Never glad confident morning again’ for bluster-man Boris

December 22, 2020

by Ken Ferguson · Was it just a short year ago that the master huckster Boris Johnson achieved what was flagged at the time as the quasi-revolutionary prelude to new global ...

Being pro-indy no excuse for shelving socialist politics

July 31, 2020

by Ken Ferguson · As we take this Voice to press, mainstream media and cyber space are awash with ever more fevered speculation about the formation of new alliances and ...

VOICE EXTRA: Unison backs National Care Service plan

June 25, 2020

Calls are growing in support of the SSP’S demand for a publicly owned and regulated National Care Service. The UK’s biggest union UNISON has called for a replacement to ...

VOICE EXTRA: Defy all cuts – there IS an alternative to capitulation!

February 27, 2020

As Scotland’s councils meet to set their budgets, the reality is that we face yet another round of cuts, job losses and Council Tax hikes. Scottish Socialists say that it ...

Action on people’s priorities can drive real change

February 8, 2019

by Ken Ferguson · Even political junkies must be reeling by now at the dizzying pace of Brexit crisis following Brexit crisis and the saturation media discussion of it on ...

All that’s solid melts in air as crisis explodes across political spectrum

September 7, 2018

by Ken Ferguson • At Westminster and Holyrood, ‘crisis’ is the political word of the moment. In Edinburgh, the snowballing crisis sparked by the sex allegations against ...

The shine comes off both Nicola and Corbyn-mania

September 7, 2018

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • Jeremy Corbyn was in Scotland last week. He told listeners to Radio Four’s World at One that, “Scottish Socialist Party ...