"You sing about your bonnie Scotland and your heather hills. It's not your bonnie Scotland. It's not your heather hills. It’s...

When the British Government passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833 – 26 years after the trade itself had been done away with. it paid  th...

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

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...

Socialist Courier found it interesting that three south Ayrshire schools – Ayr Academy, Kyle Academy and Marr College – have been working ...

Socialist Courier continues its occasional account of Scotland's radical past. We do not lay claim to its working class history, or cla...

 It’s a pity that there is so little written information about the history of Glasgow branch. However,  when I joined in 1963 there were ...

The late Paul Foot , the veteran SWPer, and nephew of the ex Labour Party leader, Michael Foot,  in an article in the Socialist Worker call...

How the the Small Party of Glesga' Bookies (as the local branch in Glasgow was known in its early days because, it turns out, a number ...

 Another installment in the recollections of members and once again from Glasgow member Victor Vanni. The party’s heyday began with WW2...

46 parades of up to 8,000 Orangemen will march through Glasgow's city centre today with a number of them converging on Cathedral Squa...

In previous blogs on the history of Scottish labour we have observed how religious bigotry often marred attempts to unite the working class...

Steve Fullarton, Scotland's last surviving veteran of the International Brigade passed away at 87 in May 2008. The last Scottish vetera...

Edinburgh Dr. Alison describes a similar state of things in Edinburgh, whose superb situation, which has won it the title of the modern Ath...