Free public transport: SSP day of action
by Hugh Cullen, SSP National Secretary · SSP branches and members took to bus, ferry, train, tram and subway stations on Saturday 15 June, campaigning for Free Public ...
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What are the progressive class solutions in climate change debate?
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · I’m looking forward to the Scottish Socialist Voice Forum on how to counter the threat climate change poses in ways that ...
In a world of spin, the facts will set you free
by Ken Ferguson · The cheering which met the supposedly stunning defeat of the SNP leadership on a Scottish currency had barely died down when the party’s legendary spin ...
SSP activists mark minimum wage increase with push for £10-an-hour
by Voice Reporter · The National Minimum Wage went up by 38p on Monday April 1st from £7.83/per hour to £8.21. The SSP marked this over the weekend by taking campaigns ...
All that’s solid melts in air amidst Brexit crisis
by Ken Ferguson · Even the most hardened journalists, activists and politicians now stand on the edge of Brexit bafflement as things unthinkable one day enter the mainstream ...
Neither tragedy nor farce but action for real change can save the day
by Ken Ferguson · If Marx was right when he wrote the famous dictum that history repeats itself first as tragedy than as farce you have to wonder where on that scale lies ...
Rosa Luxemburg: socialist icon
by Colin Turbett • 100 years ago this month, Rosa Luxemburg was beaten up and shot dead in Berlin by Freikorps members, the forerunners of the Nazis, on the implicit ...
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 ...
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 ...
Demos are essential but they’re not enough
by Ken Ferguson • Temperatures soar to new heights as Glasgow gets hotter than Greece and, as we go to press with this Voice, the heatwave stretches on. Likewise in the ...
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