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 ...
Minneapolis is full of lessons for Scotland’s Working Class
By Richie Venton THE UNHINGED DONALD TRUMP REGIME has unleashed racist class war on its own population whilst escalating its imperialist bullying abroad. Just days after ...
As Holyrood polls grow closer, we must assert our ‘Scotland for Peace’ aspiration
By David Mackenzie, Secure Scotland THERE IS NO NEED to rehearse how bleak and dangerous the situation is. The canvas is vast and my knowledge is limited, so I want to ...
Privatisation is the cause of the crisis in the NHS… not the cure
By Colin Fox, SSP Co-Spokesperson IN HER RECENT BUDGET, Rachel Reeves declared that “ending the crisis in the NHS” was one of her top priorities. And well she might, ...
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 — ...
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 ...
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