Ian Bell , the Herald's columnist has written a useful article about the attcks on state workers pensions. He points out that public se...

Efforts are being made to sign a common treaty on the Arctic citing the kind of treaty on the Antarctic. But experts invariably pointed out ...

We are used to reading of gallant and dedicated police officers rounding up criminals and packing them of to prison, but what are we to ma...

From time to time newspapers run obituaries of famous men and women but we had one recently for a dog! It was a rather special mutt though...

Taken from here In Glasgow a stabbing occurs every six hours - and many more go unreported. Survey after survey, from the World Health Organ...

When socialist speak of class division we are often accused of being outdated, but here are recent figures that prove our point. "Las...

No country owns the geographic North Pole or the region of the Arctic Ocean surrounding it. The surrounding Arctic states that border the ...

Average life expectancy for both sexes in greater Glasgow is lower than in Albania and nearer to that of the Palestinian territories than t...

With a referendum looming in the future, once again Socialist Courier declares its policy:- The world-wide working class has a common inter...

There are many examples of how heartless capitalist society is. Millions starving while food is destroyed to keep up prices, people being ...

Last year Socialist Courier posted about The Scheme now the Onthank housing scheme in Kilmarnock, featured in the BBC Scotland's docume...

Members of the working class suffer all sorts of indignities in their working life but it is when they grow old and infirm that capitalism...

In reviewing Owen Jones's book " Cavs: The Demonization of the Working Cl ass", the journalist Carol Midgely makes some vali...

The 2011 Sunday Times Rich List , published this weekend, reveals that the 1,000 wealthiest people in the country are now worth a combined £...

We live in austere times, there is a budget deficit and the government has been forced to make all sorts of unpopular public spending cuts...

Working class school children throughout the world are taught the mantra "never steal anything". So what are we to make of the f...

How the other half live and more accurately how the 0.00002 per cent live. CRN Spa, builders of mega-yachts, estimates that there are just ...

Every evening on the TV you can see programmes where some dastardly criminal is brought to justice by some ingenious detective. Every crim...

On the face of it the Green Movement has a lot of things in its favour. It would be difficult to find fault in their concerns about how th...

Inside capitalism politics and religion throw up some crazy ideas, but this piece of Russian nonsense takes a bit of beating. "A new ...