Celtic fans’ £188,800 Palestine solidarity
by Liam McLaughlin • Voice readers will be probably be aware that in the most recent home match in the Uefa Champions League, Celtic fans were beamed across TV screens and ...
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Tackling climate change can create jobs
Roz Paterson looks at a trade union-based plan • It’s not often you read a booklet about climate change and actually feel like whooping with excitement at its vision of ...
Smoke and spin no answer to real challenges facing people
by Ken Ferguson • If history repeats itself as Marx claimed first as tragedy and then farce nobody seems to have told Labour deputy leader Tom Watson. Right wing Watson ...
The SNP’s named person initiative: storm in a teacup?
by Colin Turbett, author of ‘Doing Radical Social Work’ • If we are going to judge the SNP’s performance in government in Scotland let’s do so on issues that ...
Scottish Labour faces a ‘developing calamity’
by the SSP’s John McAllion, former Labour MP and MSP • Labour’s crisis has so far focussed on characters and events south of the border. The second leadership contest ...
Brexit vote unleashes Hydra-headed crisis opening way to Indyref 2
by Ken Ferguson • Lenin’s famous dictum that “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” might well have been written about ...
Safety before profit – victory to the guards
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The strike by ScotRail conductors/guards against the Abellio bosses’ mad dash towards Driver Only Operated (DOO) ...
Visiting Kurdish MP asks for solidarity
by Stephen Smellie, Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan • Leyla Birlik is the MP for Sirnak in South Eastern Turkey. She is a member of the People’s Democracy Party (HDP) ...
Turkish president wages war on Kurds and stages a parliamentary coup
by Stephen Smellie, co-convenor, Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan Since Turkish President Erdogan decided that the peace talks with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) were ...
Holyrood must axe offensive behaviour at football law
by Liam McLaughlin • With the Holyrood election now over, and the hurt of a bruising night for the left and progressive forces involved with the pro-independence campaign ...
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