In Scotland today it’s true that there is a struggle – as there is in England, Wales, Ireland, or rest of the world for that matter. Bu...

From the August 1944 issue of the  Socialist  Standard As the war nears its climax, the capitalist political representatives—and ...

From the August 1939 issue of the  Socialist  Standard The self-styled democratic champions of the British Empire are wont to ign...

Tommy Sheridan’s Solidarity officially endorsed a vote for the SNP position for the May 7 General Election. A large majority of 65 or so d...

The Socialist Party believes that socialism is the alternative to capitalism. Socialism requires the joint efforts of workers worldwid...

We may take issue with Maxton and Hardie being included in the ranks of Marxists but the anti-nationalist sentiments of the song, can be sh...

The SNP have now released a draft constitution for a possible independent Scotland. As a left wing group also critical of nationalism ex...

Lerwick, the capital of Shetland is 18 hours by road and boat from Edinburgh – more than double the journey time from the Scottish capital ...

The independence debate is a dispute between sections of the capitalist class over what constitutional arrangement produces the better comm...

NO TO NATIONALISM The events of Ukraine may be far away from Glasgow and Edinburgh but the driving force of the conflict is very famili...

Billy Connolly has said he will not vote in the referendum on Scottish independence. "  I have never been a nationalist and I have ...

WORLD SOCIALISM Socialists are indifferent to the national interests of any particular country, our own included. The thing to which w...

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE In the Communist Manifesto we read the following: "Though not in substance, yet in form, the strugg...

In all capitalist societies, a tiny class of people owns the means of production and profits by exploiting the workers’ labour. United, the...

Socialist Courier can do little better than the views on the independence referendum propounded by John Wight, writer and political co...

WORLD SOCIALISM “I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles t...