politics – Scottish Socialist Voice

The Events in Ireland: Working Class Unity and Socialism to Combat Racism

July 3, 2026

By Richie Venton (who grew up in County Fermanagh) In early June, Belfast witnessed the worst street violence in decades. Gangs of black-clad boys and men, in masks and ...

South Africa’s Conference of the Left: Rebuilding working-class power beyond fragmentation

June 30, 2026

by Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara, Member of the SteeringCommittee, Conference of the Left SOUTH AFRICA’S Conference of the Left, held from 29 to 31 May 2026 in Boksburg, was not a ...

By-Election Spotlights Ongoing Crisis

June 24, 2026

Editorial by Ken Ferguson, Voice Editor AS COMMENTATORS reach for that grievously overworked “historic” superlative and outbid each other in the significance stakes it ...

Embezzlement and calls to pamper the rich spotlight the gulf between the powerful and the people

June 3, 2026

By Ken Ferguson AS THE VOICE goes to press we are in the midst of headline grabbing stories generated by the formerly or still self defined powerful in ways that leave the ...

Election heralds urgent need to break with passivity and head for real change

May 13, 2026

by Ken Ferguson IN SCOTLAND, the election contains both positives and negatives with the balance coming down, at least provisionally’, on the progressive side. The ...

A Socialist Campaign to be proud of… but it’s not over yet!

May 1, 2026

By SSP Election Campaign Organiser Richie Venton CONSIDERING OUR lack of resources, the SSP has staged a phenomenal election campaign, popularising socialist measures that ...

Crisis will still dominate after 7 May: The Left must rise to the challenge

April 26, 2026

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

March 6, 2026

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!

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 ...

Mandelson crisis lifts lid on greed and corruption at heart of the ‘free market’

February 18, 2026

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 ...