Book Review from the  December 1978  issue of the Socialist Standard John S. Clarke: Parliamentarian, Poet, Lion-Tamer  by  Raymond Ch...

From the April 1945 issue of the  Socialist  Standard Since the working class was granted the vote there has never been a shortage of ...

 " We will support the officials just so long  as they represent the workers,  but we will act independently immediately  they misre...

Book Review from the  August 1955  issue of the  Socialist  Standard "If it were not such a dreadful thing to say of anybody, I...

From the  September 1930  issue of the  Socialist  Standard "The only time in my life that I have allied myself with the enemies o...

Book Review from the January 1967 issue of the Socialist Standard The Clydesiders by R. K. Middlemas   In the general election o...

“Self-determination under capitalism is therefore an impossibility, and demands for its realisation a preceding social revolution. Such a...

The Independent Labour Party in 1922 returned several MPs, among them James Maxton, David Kirkwood, John Wheatley and John McGovern, who ha...

Ideas of reaction and bigotry can often be just as powerful as those of solidarity and class unity. The celebrated Forty Hours Strike in 19...

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

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

"Written right across every page of human history is the declaration that no people can be free so long as the private ownership of th...

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