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Turkish president wages war on Kurds and stages a parliamentary coup

June 10, 2016

by Stephen Smellie, co-convenor, Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan Since Turkish President Erdogan decided that the peace talks with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) were ...

Ali: one man who shook the world

June 9, 2016

by Simon Whittle, Scottish Socialist Voice deputy editor • If John Lennon was bigger than Jesus, then Muhammad Ali was bigger than God. He transcended 1960s racist America ...

Squalid system is the heart of the problem

June 9, 2016

EDITORIAL by Ken Ferguson • It is pretty rare for the Voice to find itself in agreement with a leading Tory but it is hard to disagree with former Prime Minister John ...

‘Yes’ vote in RMT ScotRail ballot

June 9, 2016

by Voice Reporter • Rail union the RMT confirmed on 7 June that members voted overwhelmingly for both strike action and industrial action short of a strike over the ...

Another Scotland is necessary

June 9, 2016

by Sandra Webster • Time travel back to the Smith Commission. After the campaign for independence, Scotland was promised more devolved powers. When Maggie Chapman talked ...

June 26 Spanish elections: left government in sight?

May 30, 2016

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Five months after the December 20 Spanish elections failed to produce a government, the country is again going to the polls in the most ...

Holyrood must axe offensive behaviour at football law

May 28, 2016

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 ...

RMT: ‘keep the guard on the train’

May 28, 2016

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 ...

Scottish democracy needs a vibrant, diverse media

May 28, 2016

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 ...

Only a left alternative can halt the populist right

May 28, 2016

by Ken Ferguson • The narrow defeat inflicted on far right Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer by Green pro-EU Alexander Van der Bellen represents both a close ...