Category: Politics
The Commies are coming!
According to Donald Trump, he was brilliantly accurate when he predicted in 2019 that “America will never be a socialist country”....
Low-traffic neighbourhoods: A class perspective
Last month, on 18 February, a large demonstration of around 2,000 protesters descended on Oxford to oppose the local council’s ‘15...
RMT young members’ conference 2023: Determined to win
This year’s RMT young members conference, held in Hastings from 24-25 February, brought together 50 activists – the highest attend...
Appetite for deconstruction
Album review: The Ultra Vivid Lament Manic Street Preachers Released on 10 September Sony/Columbia ★★★★ by Simon Whittle · “Words ...
Colleges fire-and-rehire victory as McVitie’s workers f...
An outright victory against fire-and-rehire at Forth Valley College by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Strike ac...
Stop the Tollcross massacre: fight to save every job at...
We need decisive action to halt devastation • by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Nearly 500 workers and their fa...
‘Liar’ Johnson’s government in chaos and confusion...
by Ken Ferguson · You couldn’t make it up when commenting on the current Johnson gang but then, amidst U-turns, blunders and clear...
Danny O’Donnell: a lovely man, friend and comrade
by Richie Venton · The world has lost a chunk of its warmth and humanity with the recent death of dear friend and long time comrad...
Wullie McGartland: farewell to a Voice legend, friend a...
by Simon Whittle · Wullie McGartland, one of Scottish socialism’s brightest shining stars and former Voice deputy editor, has died...
A victory for strikes and solidarity
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Lecturers in Scotland’s Further Education colleges have won an important vict...
Fight on for fair pay: reject the offers in NHS and loc...
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · Workers in both the NHS and local authorities are balloting on pay offers fr...
Refuse to be slaves – defend the right to strike!
The Tories are hellbent on turning workers into slaves. They are rushing through legislation on so-called Minimum Service Levels t...
Hunt’s big business Budget: “This is class war”
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt received whoops and cheers in Parliament yesterday, as Tory backbenchers applauded his latest billionaires’...
140 years after the death of Marx – The communists are ...
Today, 14 March, marks the 140th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, the greatest thinker and revolutionary who has ever lived....
Lineker, the BBC, and Tory culture wars: Establishment ...
The recent row between the BBC and footballer-turned-TV-presenter Gary Lineker has exposed the real role of the national broadcast...
