The manufacturers and traders of guns are in a lucrative business in the USA and in order to protect their marketplace they have a trade o...

In the media led frenzy that will no doubt accompany the Queen's diamond jubilee many workers may imagine that they have something to ...

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With the forthcoming Olympic Games in the offing the media will be whipping up nationalistic pride and crowds will be singing God Save the...

The popular song may declare that New York is a wonderful town but for many of its residents this is far from the truth. "The number ...

Nobody could be more thrilled at the melting of the polar ice caps than the capitalist class who want to get their hands on the vast depos...

It is a favourite trick of the popular press to depict the unemployed and the poorly paid sections of the working class as cunning recipie...

The wealth of UAE billionaires increased by more than 10 per cent to $7.6 billion, according to Forbes Middle East Arab billionaires ranki...

Glencore, the commodity and mining firm worth £27bn, stands accused in the Democratic Republic of the Congo of dumping raw acid and profit...

The idea of individual (or private) ownership of fixed parcels of land is a relatively recent phenomenon, and by no means universal. Tom Joh...

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Politicians in the USA like to depict America as the epitome of freedom and democracy and sneer at the repressive measures of totalitarian...

The awful poverty and downright squalor of the Chinese working class is amongst the worst in the world but the affluence of their owning c...

Arising out of the case of a 13 year old girl who worked as a maid (for a couple who had gone on vacation to Thailand) and who had been re...

A great deal of patriotic pride has been associated with the idea that Scotland was never conquered by the Romans. At the end of the 18th ce...

Scottish "noble" families have survived for centuries. In many cases these are people who gained control of large areas of the cou...

A total of 2,025,400 people had put their names forward for the NHS Organ Donor Register as of 31 March - almost 40% of the population. Acro...

We are supposed to be living in an economic depression but this does not affect large sections of the owning class. More than 200 real est...

A study by HM Revenue and customs found that the extremely rich are using avoidance schemes to reduce their income tax rate to an average ...

In Scotland's feudal system of land tenure all rights of ownership are vested in the Crown as Paramount Superior. All rights of land ow...