scottish labour – Scottish Socialist Voice

Just Transition only can solve Mossmorran’s pollution and preserve jobs

November 20, 2020

by Councillor Mary Lockhart · On 5 October 2020, pilots of aircraft approaching Edinburgh Airport radioed Air Traffic Control to ask if it was safe to land. Their flight ...

Elite Brexit power play locks people out

March 2, 2018

by Ken Ferguson • The Voice goes to press as Jeremy Corbyn announces a Labour policy shift to endorse “a customs union” with the EU and beleaguered Premier May is ...

Scottish Labour faces a ‘developing calamity’

August 11, 2016

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 ...

School closures further expose cost of Labour moneylenders fiasco

April 15, 2016

by Colin Fox, lead RISE candidate in the Lothians • As the Voice went to press, the Scottish Parliament elections were dominated by the closure of 17 of Edinburgh’s ...

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 ...

For people and for planet, Scotland needs real change

November 11, 2015

Editorial by Ken Ferguson If we are to believe the media pundits, Scottish politics is about to be a battle between a leftward moving Scottish Labour squaring up to take on ...

Both Corbynmania and Nicolamania in retreat

October 2, 2015

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson “Amid all the talk about the if, when, how and why of a second referendum, a technicality is being overlooked,” Sunday Herald ...

Neither Sturgeon or Corbyn have the answer

October 2, 2015

by Ken Ferguson There is an old saying “nothing is new under the sun” and nowhere is this more clearly the case as in the world of politics. With the demands and the ...

Energy of mass independence campaign creates need for RISE

August 31, 2015

by Jonathon Shafi We live in a historical moment marked by deep and profound ideological and social flux. If you are unconvinced by this, just think back ten years from now: ...

Scottish Labour’s main business now is to avoid extinction

June 5, 2015

John McAllion assesses Scottish Labour’s fall Labour’s cataclysmic electoral defeat has sparked the resignation of its losing leaders north and south of the border, the ...