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Meeting people’s priorities is key to winning indyref 2

December 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Amidst the all enveloping fog of Brexit claim and counter claim, the outline of what lies ahead appears with growing clarity. In the run up to the June Euro poll, the Voice ...

RISE conference signals start of left challenge for Holyrood 2016

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jonathon Shafi Next May’s Holyrood election will be strikingly different from others before it coming as they will just twenty months after the biggest mass movement in Scottish history, the Yes ...

Glare of war illuminates Westminster power play

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Editorial by Ken Ferguson As the Voice went to press 66 Labour MPs voted with the Tories to send a handful of RAF bombers into action in Syria once again showing that the lessons of recent history ...

Second indyref cannot be won by a one-party campaign

October 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jenni Gunn The Yes campaign and the referendum as a whole served as an intense political education for many Scots—myself included. The experience is one that many campaigners will never forget: ...

Why the indyref changed us all

September 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson Looking at social media at the moment. It is full of people’s memories of when we were on the eve of the referendum, one year ago. We were all tired ...

Corbynmania and Nicolamania

September 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Where now for the socialist left in Scotland? by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson “Jeremy Corbyn is a thoroughly decent man. Everyone who has met him would describe him this way,” said the ...

Holyrood 2016 needs mandate for second indyref

August 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Jim Sillars To know why the Scottish Parliament, after the 2016 election, must command a majority for a second independence mandate, look not only at the present but at the 2020 Westminster ...

Will unionist woes open door to real change?

March 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson Nick Clegg makes a desperate bid to rally about to be eclipsed Scottish Lib Dems and makes fantasy world claims about his party defeating the SNP. In the heart of Red Clydeside in ...

8th March: International Women’s Day – let’s make it happen!

February 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster, Katie Bonnar, Hollie Cameron, Jenni Gunn and Christine McVicar ‘Make it happen’ is the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day. The day we celebrate the uniqueness ...

Independent women

February 16, 2015 // 1 Comment

by Sandra Webster, SSP national co-spokesperson One of the greatest strengths of the Yes campaign was a positive vision of a different kind of politics. One where more voices could be encouraged to ...