Peoples’ interests remain in austerity’s cross hairs
by Ken Ferguson • How many Tory MPs will rebel? Will May fall? Deal or no deal? As the Voice goes to press, the swirl of speculation among the political classes, media ...
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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 ...
Record numbers swindled out of statutory minimum wage
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • One million people in Scotland live in poverty today according to Government figures and most of them are working. It used to ...
For action against poverty and insecurity
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser • The British TUC meets in Manchester for its annual congress, 150 years after its founding meeting in the Mechanics ...
All that’s solid melts in air as crisis explodes across political spectrum
by Ken Ferguson • At Westminster and Holyrood, ‘crisis’ is the political word of the moment. In Edinburgh, the snowballing crisis sparked by the sex allegations against ...
The shine comes off both Nicola and Corbyn-mania
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • Jeremy Corbyn was in Scotland last week. He told listeners to Radio Four’s World at One that, “Scottish Socialist Party ...
Time to nationalise the railways
by Gordon Martin, Scottish Organiser, RMT • With the rail network across much of England in total meltdown due to the incompetence of various Train Operating Companies and ...
As SNP put NorthLink ferries out to tender, RMT pledge to continue nationalisation fight
by Gordon Martin, Scottish Regional Organiser, RMT • Following several months of will-they-or-won’t-they, the SNP Scottish Government delivered the news on Thursday 24 ...
As BGT winner’s inspiration is hailed, attacks on disabled rights must end
by Sandra Webster • I have to admit to not being a fan of the X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. I saw the result show after reading that two people with disabilities ...
Growth Report ignores working class
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson • Andrew Wilson’s long awaited Sustainable Growth Commission Report was finally published last week, and it has gone down like ...
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