Commemorating Orbiston in Strathclyde Park, the plaque reads "The Babylon Community, Orbiston (1825-1828) The first experiment in co...

Letter to the Editors from the March 1995 issue of the  Socialist  Standard Dear Comrades, I was born in 1900 and am four years ol...

From the September 1919 issue of the Socialist Standard On the 12th of August the death of Andrew Carnegie was reported, and all the capi...

June 24th 2014 will mark the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn which was just one of many battles between competing Anglo-No...

Ethel MacDonald was born in Motherwell in 1909, into a large working class family. Politically active from a very early age, she was int...

Jenny Wormald in her biography “Mary Queen of Scots. A Study in Failure” describes a Scottish monarch who lacked an interest in Scotland...

The Libcom website has an interesting working class history article on the Glasgow dockers "ca' canny" go slow campaign of 1...

Robert Gammage was a Chartist activist and is best known for his History of the Chartist Movement, published in 1854. In 1843 he embark...

April 17 in 618 -- On this day fifty-three monks were burned alive in their refectory by a gang of armed women seeking revenge for being ch...

The SNP would allow American bases on Scottish soil after independence – as long as they were non-nuclear. And just who would be doing an i...

Due to a broken link Socialist Courier is re-posting Vic Vanni's 1975 articles on the history of Scottish nationalism Scottish Nation...

Jeanie Spence (Jute and Flax workers, Dundee), Lamont (National Federation of Women Workers), Agnes Brown (National Federation of Women W...

"Tell people that patriotism is bad and most of them will laugh and say: ‘Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but my patriotism is good!’ ...

Professor Tom Devine, director of the Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies at Edinburgh University, welcomed plans for a planned monument in...

Joe Corrie (1894-1968), poet and playwright, was a Fife miner, and his early poems were published in the left-wing paper, the 'Forward...

This rather unsympathetic article by Gary Girod about Red Clydeside is of interest and a rich source of facts and details. The Back...

The 1911 Clydebank Singers strike is considered the first battle between labour and international capital in Scotland if not in the UK. It ...

In the land of his birth Andrew Carnegie is commemorated by statues and grand buildings named in his honour. In Dunfermline, where he was b...

What they said before they became Moscow's men and followed the Moscow line. British Advocates of Industrial Unionism Glasgow Branch Ex...

Socialism Militant   Commonweal, Vol 4, No. 117, 7 April 1888, p.106-7 Since a year may make a good deal of difference in the position o...