The 2007 Edinburgh May Day march and rally will be on Saturday May 5th . Assemble East Market Street 11.30 am . Rally in Princes Street Gar...

The First of May is the day when the workers’ movement celebrates its internationalism, and affirms the unity of their class across all bor...

Here in Scotland just before the election there is a lot of effort being spent on telling us “ we ” should be better off if “ we ” were Inde...

The BBC is carrying a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation that found Some 40% of people from ethnic minority backgrounds are living i...

The Royal Family - Capitalism personified . The Independent on Sunday interviewed Prince Andrew , second son of the Queen or "Air Miles...

With the imminent publication of The Times 2007 Rich List , there will be many commentaries on it . The first i have read is from the BBC ....

From the Independent :- To count as genuinely wealthy, according to a new survey, you need at least £6 million in the bank, as well as a £4...

A lifetime on a low wage physically ages a person eight years earlier than high earners, researchers found. They followed more than 10,000 B...

Nationalism is anathema to socialists. Wage and salary workers have no country. We have more in common with people like ourselves in other c...

Follow this link and click on an imaginative 2 minute video , speculating on who are behind the current American war -fever . We would que...

From the BBC :- The government has admitted that there were an extra 100,000 adults of working age living in both absolute and relative pov...

OH NO, NOT ANOTHER ELECTION LEAFLET! Yes, but hang on - this one's different. THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY! They don't all mean it, ...

Extracts from this article by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News, Moscow Reinforce what the socialist party were saying when the so-called com...

From a contributor to the WSM Forum :- Bernard Matthews Ltd is to receive over £500,000 in compensation as a result of the culling of 160,0...

With the elections approaching , the media are hyping it all up as if some sort of real change is about to be in the offing , and the politi...

Acoording to the BBC :- Lord Laidlaw of Rothiemay , a leading Conservative Party donor , is still a tax exile three years after agreeing ...

Continuing the Socialist Courier saga of the riches to riches story of the fortunate few . Executive directors at Edinburgh-based Cairn Ener...

Laying it on the line , with no weasel words , no kissing of babies , no false promises , no political platitudes . And here once again , ...

Going shopping ?? Getting the groceries ?? The UK's biggest supermarket chain, Tesco, will smash its own national record this week when ...

The previous item brings to mind the story that an old Glasgow speaker was fond of telling from the outdoor platform. An Eastern potentate w...