Scottish

Holyrood must axe offensive behaviour at football law

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Liam McLaughlin • With the Holyrood election now over, and the hurt of a bruising night for the left and progressive forces involved with the pro-independence campaign of 2014 starting to ...

RMT: ‘keep the guard on the train’

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

by a ScotRail driver • The RMT union is balloting its ScotRail conductor members over Abellio’s refusal to rule out the extension of Driver Only Operation (DOO) on services currently worked by ...

Scottish democracy needs a vibrant, diverse media

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Paul Holleran, Scottish Organiser National Union of Journalists • A major measure of any functioning democracy is the state of its media and anyone looking closely at the newspaper and ...

RISE conference signals start of left challenge for Holyrood 2016

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 Scottish history, the Yes ...

Glare of war illuminates Westminster power play

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Editorial by Ken Ferguson As the Voice went to press 66 Labour MPs voted with the Tories to send a handful of RAF bombers into action in Syria once again showing that the lessons of recent history ...

Conference marks next stage for Scotland’s Left Alliance

November 20, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Jonathon Shafi RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance, is on the cusp of moving on to the next phase of our development. Since our launch at the end of August we have been developing local activist ...

Will Women’s Equality Party put gender at the heart of politics?

November 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jenni Gunn The Women’s Equality Party (WEP), launched late this October, aims to further the goals of gender equality in the UK and intends to stand in next year’s Holyrood elections. Founded ...

The fruits of globalisation: a world in flames

November 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson The unspeakable horror on the streets of Paris dramatically spotlights the world of chaos resulting from the 30 years plus economic, social and military policies of neoliberal ...

‘System change not climate change’

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance to join climate march, 28 Nov, Edinburgh by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson Governments from all countries will assemble in Paris from 30 November to 11 ...

For people and for planet, Scotland needs real change

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 an already left wing ...