50 years after the Abortion Act – what now?
by Jenni Gunn • 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Rights Act—making abortion legal and free on the National Health Service. The passing of the Act was a ...
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Meeting people’s priorities is key to winning indyref 2
by Ken Ferguson • Amidst the all enveloping fog of Brexit claim and counter claim, the outline of what lies ahead appears with growing clarity. In the run up to the June ...
Brexit battles smokescreen as Tory hard right show teeth
by Ken Ferguson • The conventional media wisdom that the British state is in confusion post the Brexit vote is a best lazy thinking and in some respects dangerous nonsense. ...
Brexit puts EU-based environmental controls at risk
by Roz Paterson • In the wake of almost certain Brexit, the pariah that is the UK may well have to prostrate itself at the feet of anyone willing to do business, even ...
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 ...
Kurds’ ultimate fight for democracy
by Sean Baillie • As part of a delegation organised by the Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan campaign, I was invited to the Democratic Union Party’s (PYD) 8th Congress, ...
Education under occupation
by Hugh Cullen, SSP member • I spent September in Al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank, Palestine. I was working with International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a ...
Indyref can’t be Nicola’s Trident
by Ken Ferguson • First Minister Sturgeon’s confirmation—amidst cheers from SNP conference delegates—of a draft Bill on Indyref 2 both ups the ante while buying time ...
A nuclear nightmare is possible
Roz Paterson looks at new report on the dangers of nuclear weapons convoys • In 2011, a goods lorry suffered a blow-out at the busy Reith interchange, near Bellshill, ...
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 ...
Scottish Socialist Voice 