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‘Never glad confident morning again’ for bluster-man Boris

December 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Was it just a short year ago that the master huckster Boris Johnson achieved what was flagged at the time as the quasi-revolutionary prelude to new global free market, union ...

Latin America epicentre of drive for socialist change

December 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar · The election for the National Assembly in Venezuela produced the expected landslide victory for the Socialist Party; expected because the right-wing opposition boycotted the poll. ...

ScotRail: Abellio bully boys try divide-and-rule

November 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · As the RMT union ballots 2,500 ScotRail workers for action in pursuit of an extremely reasonable pay claim, ScotRail bosses have come out all ...

Just Transition only can solve Mossmorran’s pollution and preserve jobs

November 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Councillor Mary Lockhart · On 5 October 2020, pilots of aircraft approaching Edinburgh Airport radioed Air Traffic Control to ask if it was safe to land. Their flight decks appeared to be full of ...

Wave of solidarity for Richie signposts fightback we need

September 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · The brutally engineered sacking by furniture giant IKEA of USDAW Shop Steward and Convener Richie Venton must serve both as a warning and a rallying cry to us all. The trumped up ...

IKEA face anger across UK, in unions, public and parliament

September 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson, Editor, Scottish Socialist Voice · The battle to win reinstatement for Glasgow IKEA shop steward Richie Venton, and 100 per cent average wages for workers sick with Covid-19, is ...

Imagine how to fight the slaughter of jobs and wages!

August 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · “We’re All In This Together” declares the signage in one famous supermarket. Far from it! The household name displaying those posters, ...

Socialists must prepare for next war, not the last one

August 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · It is often said that politicians, diplomats and generals prepare to fight their battles with plans based on what happened during the last war they fought only to find that this ...

‘They don’t even see us as human!’

August 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Scott Macdonald · LGBT+ friends and comrades have taken to the streets across Scotland, calling on the Scottish Government, the Polish Embassy and local authorities to demand the release of queer ...

VOICE EXTRA: Corporate thuggery at British Airways

August 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · British Airways bosses have given us a toxic taste of the jobs slaughter and wage-slashing that millions of workers face as capitalists and their ...