School closures further expose cost of Labour moneylenders fiasco
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 ...
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Land reform: much remains to be done
by Roz Paterson • “I have described the Grampians as a great faunal region—and so, according to our twentieth-century standards, it is. I ought rather to have ...
Unions must take action for £10NOW
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The season of major trade union conferences is kicking off, amidst the cacophony of barefaced lies about the ...
How to win an industrial dispute in three not so easy lessons
by Billy McChord, EIS-FELA Executive member, Branch Convener and RISE activist • There is much to be learned from the recent experience of the Further Education Lecturers ...
Solving the environmental crisis can not be left to the Greens
by Roz Paterson We are experiencing “a step change from one world to another…the changes are as big as those that happened at the end of the last ice age.” So says ...
2016 presents Scotland’s left with unprecedented challenges
by John McAllion In July of 1988, the Queen addressed both Houses of Parliament on the occasion of the tercentenary of the Glorious Revolution. Her address, awash with ...
With Labour a political corpse, Scotland needs a new left
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 ...
RISE conference signals start of left challenge for Holyrood 2016
by Jonathon Shafi Next May’s Holyrood election will be strikingly different from others before it coming as they will just twenty months after the biggest mass movement in ...
Scotland’s left alliance on the rise
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The background political context to the RISE conference in Glasgow this weekend could hardly be more significant. Having declared ...
Bombing won’t bring peace in Syria or security in Scotland
by Bill Bonnar Bombing Syria is not a strategy. It is what you do when you don’t have a strategy. The government want to use the bombings in Paris as an excuse to start a ...
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