Westminster not a motorway to change
by Ken Ferguson • After a summer smearing Corbyn as an anti-semite, in time honoured fashion, the millionaire-dominated media changed tack at Liverpool. The tale now is of a dangerously left wing ...
Scottish independence
Demos are essential but they’re not enough
by Ken Ferguson • Temperatures soar to new heights as Glasgow gets hotter than Greece and, as we go to press with this Voice, the heatwave stretches on. Likewise in the world of politics the ...
At Holyrood and Westminster, crisis is the new normal
by Ken Ferguson • As autumn draws on, crisis is the new normal across UK and Scottish politics. Scottish Labour faces a fresh leadership crisis, Scotland’s Tories face scandals over trolling and ...
Corbyn, confusion, socialism and indy
by Ken Ferguson • The recent general election which reduced the Tories to a minority government and put UK Labour some 50 seats behind them has caused shock waves across politics not least in the ...
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 Euro poll, the Voice ...
Socialism and independence or Tory barbarism to the far horizon
by Ken Ferguson • It’s official, revealed by none other than Chancellor Hammond, falling wages and service cuts alongside housing shortages, health cuts, insecure work and falling benefits ...
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 the future, but here it ...
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 got into his time machine ...
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 within a year looks set ...
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 the hydra headed crisis ...
