Given the apparent futility of reform campaigning to remove the social problems and economic difficulties capitalism creates, socialists...

The NHS cannot tackle the health gap between rich and poor by itself and can only provide a "sticking plaster" for such inequali...

The EIS teaching union has claimed that cuts in staff are making it harder to deal with bad behaviour in schools. The union blames falling...

CHANGE THE SYSTEM NOT THE CLIMATE “It’s blindingly obvious that our economic system is failing us,” said economist Tim Jackson, a prof...

Socialists don’t hanker after the “increasing misery” for the working class. We don’t look forward to the attacks on the workers’ stand...

In America Obamacare, reforms to the health system of that coutry has been called “creeping socialism” by the free-marketeers and the A...

Within the Left there has arose a number of misconceptions about the Socialist Party of Great Britain, one being that we oppose reforms ...

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

The immediate goal of reformists is legislative palliatives . The immediate goal of the Socialist Party is the social revolution. We ...

Capitalism only continues to exist because people put up with it. Most people don’t see any alternative to working for wages, producing for...

Almost one billion children will be trapped in poverty by hunger and malnutrition by 2025 unless action is taken, a new campaign has warn...

On the 40th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act figures have been released to show that women in Scotland will have to wait another 33 years be...

Shelter , the campaign organisation which was formed to combat homelessness commemerates its 40th anniversary . 40 years on and still they c...

The gender pay gap is still growing despite more than 30 years of equal pay and sex discrimination legislation, a Scottish Government report...

Fewer pupils from deprived backgrounds are going to university in Scotland despite a raft of initiatives to widen participation, according t...

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) says 1.4 million children in Britain live in poverty despite having at least one working par...

Scotland's poorest and most vulnerable debtors were yesterday offered their cheapest escape from creditors. The Scottish Government said...

The Government's strategy for tackling poverty will be heavily criticised in two separate reports . The New Policy Institute, an indepen...

Child poverty in Scotland once again is in the news . A charity has launched a campaign aimed at eradicating child poverty in Scotland. Save...

In a recent Scotsman article it is estimated that the Scottish prison population will reach American-type proportions . Prof Coyle, head of ...