Scottish Socialist Voice

VOICE EXTRA: Rishi Sunak’s menu – old wine in new bottles

July 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Chancellor Sunak’s mini-budget uses smart spin about cheap meals for diners—at a time when tens of thousands rely on food banks—to dress up what is largely reheated soup ...

VOICE EXTRA: Four fights – one struggle!

February 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

As University and College Union (UCU) members at 74 universities stage an escalating 14 days’ strike action, SSP national workplace organiser Richie Venton spoke to David McKee, UCU member at ...

Alasdair Gray: art, literature should represent ‘the most necessary and typical people’

February 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Writer and artist Alasdair Gray died in December. Here, Andrew Givan offers a tribute and a recollection · It was a cosy wee pub in Glasgow that was hosting a special event of writers doing ...

Brexit and Boris indyref 2 veto are both fruits of 2014 No vote

February 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · However much Voice readers may want not to the 55 per cent No vote in 2014 means we currently live in a Britain firmly governed by a reactionary right wing populist Tory ...

Voice Forum: Socialist Solutions to Climate Change

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

What progressive solutions to climate change can save the world and make the lives of working people better? Saturday 29th June, 11am-1pm, Grassmarket Centre, Edinburgh EH1 2QA · For tickets and ...

Reflections of a Voice veteran as paper reaches 500th issue

November 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • The Scottish Socialist Voice, the first socialist newspaper to be written and published in Scotland since Tom Johnstone’s Forward, is quite the grande dame now. Yet an ...