Is it time to campaign for a Basic Income?
by Gerry McCartney • The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has just passed a Unite motion at their recent conference in Brighton to support a policy of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), otherwise known as ...
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A common programme for people and planet can win ‘Yes 2’
by Ken Ferguson • Post-Brexit Britain has swung decisively to the right with the installation of the unelected Theresa May in Downing Street and across Europe and the US the populist, often openly ...
Ali: one man who shook the world
by Simon Whittle, Scottish Socialist Voice deputy editor • If John Lennon was bigger than Jesus, then Muhammad Ali was bigger than God. He transcended 1960s racist America to become the world’s ...
RISE conference signals start of left challenge for Holyrood 2016
by Jonathon Shafi Next May’s Holyrood election will be strikingly different from others before it coming as they will just twenty months after the biggest mass movement in Scottish history, the Yes ...
Scotland’s left alliance on the rise
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The background political context to the RISE conference in Glasgow this weekend could hardly be more significant. Having declared war on the poor at home ...
Glare of war illuminates Westminster power play
Editorial by Ken Ferguson As the Voice went to press 66 Labour MPs voted with the Tories to send a handful of RAF bombers into action in Syria once again showing that the lessons of recent history ...
‘System change not climate change’
RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance to join climate march, 28 Nov, Edinburgh by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson Governments from all countries will assemble in Paris from 30 November to 11 ...
Brutality of Tory cuts swells the opposition
by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson As the Voice has been reporting, the cuts are getting worse. The Tories pledged to make £12billion in benefit cuts and voted in with an unexpected ...
Where is the SNP going on fracking?
by Allan Grogan Thomas Carlyle once wrote that “the greatest of faults… is to be conscious of none”. I am often reminded of this as I see the Scottish Government attempt to be all ...
Water privatised, ferries tendered, fracking test drills roll as SNP govern
by Ken Ferguson The long Teflon-coated SNP administration in Holyrood is facing growing turbulence as it struggles to square its public image as a left wing anti-austerity government with the reality ...
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