referendum – Scottish Socialist Voice

Catalonia’s referendum: a triumph for democracy built on people’s power

October 5, 2017

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Is it possible to have a successful referendum when your country is effectively occupied by 10,000 police and paramilitaries with orders to ...

Democracy: the people’s weapon elites fear

October 5, 2017

by Ken Ferguson • That one image of a heavily armoured baton wielding Spanish riot cop attacking Catalan voters tells us more about the fragile nature of democracy than a ...

Brexit rocks politics and unleashes multiple crises

July 1, 2016

EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • The victory for Brexit in the European referendum has unleashed a multiplicity of crises which poses the greatest threat to Westminster system ...

Nicola plays a blinder and plays for time

July 1, 2016

by Voice Reporter • Since the Brexit victory First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has, by common consent, played a blinder in sharp contrast with Tory and Labour disarray. She is ...

Squalid system is the heart of the problem

June 9, 2016

EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • It is pretty rare for the Voice to find itself in agreement with a leading Tory but it is hard to disagree with former Prime Minister John ...

Only a left alternative can halt the populist right

May 28, 2016

by Ken Ferguson • The narrow defeat inflicted on far right Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer by Green pro-EU Alexander Van der Bellen represents both a close ...

With Labour a political corpse, Scotland needs a new left

December 4, 2015

by Jim Sillars It was little noticed at the time amid successive Blair-led Labour victories, that the ejection of Clause 4 from its constitution, and the destruction of its ...

Second indyref cannot be won by a one-party campaign

October 20, 2015

by Jenni Gunn The Yes campaign and the referendum as a whole served as an intense political education for many Scots—myself included. The experience is one that many ...

Mass action central to defeat Tory brutality

May 22, 2015

by Ken Ferguson First of all, there is no doubt that the election result in Scotland is quite simply historic, sweeping away a Labour dominance which lasted for over half a ...

Labour’s hegemony in Scotland is over

March 13, 2015

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson With the General Election two months away, the polls predict a hung Parliament at Westminster and Labour being routed in Scotland. ...