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Building solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution: why the SSP is visiting Venezuela

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar, SSP International Secretary · Later this month I will be representing the Scottish Socialist Party on a solidarity visit to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. The SSP has been clear in ...

US chlorinated chicken the tip of a nasty iceberg

February 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • Hey, happy new year! Have you noticed that Liam Fox, currently UK Trade Secretary, keeps saying that US-produced chicken is ‘perfectly safe’? Does that worry you at all, as ...

Ali: one man who shook the world

June 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 to become the world’s ...

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 ...

Vietnam’s ‘Great Spring Victory’ over the US – forty years on

April 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Bill Bonnar gives a personal recollection Picture the scene. It is 1am in Moscow on May 1st 1975; 40 years ago. I was an 18 year old on a delegation walking home to my hotel. All around workmen were ...

After Netanyahu victory, what next?

March 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar The general election in Israel last week saw the re-election of a reactionary, hawkish government and represents a blow to any kind of peace process in the Middle East. Prime Minister ...

New Cold War at heart of Ukraine crisis

February 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar During the Cuban missile crisis of 1963 the American Government declared that it would never accept enemy nuclear weapons located near its borders nor would it ever tolerate the ...

Socialist Cuba doing the heavy lifting in Ebola crisis

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar While the world rallies to support the countries suffering the from the Ebola epidemic and Lord Bob Geldof and his tax dodging, self-publicising friends plug the latest Band Aid ...

TTIP: a threat to democracy

November 7, 2014 // 1 Comment

by Bill Newman The innocent-sounding US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is currently being prepared behind closed doors by overpaid corporate lawyers for passage through the ...

As Britain pulls out of Afghanistan, what has it left behind?

November 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

by Bill Bonnar It’s not the winning that’s important, it’s the taking part. This might be a good summation of the government’s overview of Britain’s war in Afghanistan. At least they have ...