By Lorna Wallace   (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper). America, aw whit ye dain?! How could ye choose a clueless wa...

The Song of the Respectables Respectables are we, And we fain would have you see Why we confidently claim to be respected; In well-ord...

IN MEMORY OF DR MARTIN LUTHER KING (50 YEARS ON)  Fifty years since the dream Martin Luther King shared with a nation  Of equality for ...

"The Song of the Low Classes' We plough and sow—we're so very, very low That we delve in the dirty clay, Till we bless t...

LA BELLE SANSCULOTTE She is coming, O my masters, she is coming in her might, With the red flag o’er her legions and her sword shar...

"KINGS ARE BUT GIANTS BECAUSE WE KNEEL" Good People, put no faith in Kings, nor merchant-princes trust, Who grind your heart...

On May Day, the day of international working class solidarity and struggle, the Socialist Party of Great Britain sends its fraternal gr...

We are the ones who knead and yet we have no bread, we are the ones who dig for coal and yet we are cold. We are the ones who have nothin...

Gods The ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamonds and jade, Sit silently on their temple shelves While the people...

To some, Robert Burns was a political radical and thinker, a seditious revolutionary and a staunch republican. Research suggests that Bu...

Eight former army lieutenants have been charged in the killing of Chilean singer and songwriter Victor Jara during the 1973 coup that toppl...

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