Throughout the referendum debate, the Socialist Party and this blog, tried to explain that there was no such thing as actual independence ...

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...

A word of caution against those Left Nationalists that evoke the authority of Marx and Engels and cite their sympathy for Irish and Polish ...

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...

It is not often that the Socialist Courier blog will quote a member of the old Communist Party polit-buro but when he talks as a trade-uni...

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...

The Scottish Government “airbrushed” the global financial crash from its official case for independence to avoid showing Scots would have b...

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...

Alex Salmond today announces the SNP policy statement on independence. Socialist Courier makes our own announcement on nationalism and S...

Alex Salmond told the SNP  conference that it was Scotland's time to be independent. Marx helped to replace an early international...

Alex Salmond opened the SNP's annual conference with a rousing call for independence – but quickly had to leave for talks that are an i...