war – Scottish Socialist Voice

As Holyrood polls grow closer, we must assert our ‘Scotland for Peace’ aspiration

December 29, 2025

By David Mackenzie, Secure Scotland THERE IS NO NEED to rehearse how bleak and dangerous the situation is. The canvas is vast and my knowledge is limited, so I want to ...

The Great War Xmas Truce, 1914: Not a miracle at Christmas, but a rebellion

December 22, 2025

by Natalie Reid, SSP Co-Spokesperson MOST OF US have heard the famous stories of the football matches played between British and German troops on Christmas Day in 1914. This ...

Politicians target working class to pay war butcher’s bill

March 15, 2025

(Pic: Craig Maclean) by Ken Ferguson • Whether it was Lenin or John Maclean that said it the truth remains: “A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at both ends.” This ...

False outrage of elite politicians offers no answers

June 7, 2017

by Ken Ferguson • The pitiless outrage which bombed 22 people to death in Manchester and maimed many more ignites an outrage and revulsion which is beyond words and has, ...

Visiting Kurdish MP asks for solidarity

July 1, 2016

by Stephen Smellie, Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan • Leyla Birlik is the MP for Sirnak in South Eastern Turkey. She is a member of the People’s Democracy Party (HDP) ...

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 ...

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

April 30, 2015

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. ...

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

November 7, 2014

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 ...

Gaza massacres highlight urgent need for solidarity

August 1, 2014

by Mick Napier, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign The current Israeli massacre is simply the latest in what Israel calls ‘mowing the lawn’, i.e. smashing up Gaza and ...