Being rich has lots of problems. For instance what do you spend all that loot on? A couple of American fat cats have thought of a co...

The owning class like to outdo each other in the conspicious consumption of luxuries and to satisfy their needs Electrolux has launc...

Only seven children from the poorest areas in Edinburgh got grades last year that could place them at St Andrews University or other very c...

The basis of capitalism is the working class producing a surplus value over the cost of their wages that allow the owning class to l...

Capitalism is a social system based on class ownership and sections of the owning class are always in disputes over this ownership. ...

India's health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said 39 million Indians are pushed to poverty because of ill health every year and around 30 p...

Fears that patient safety may be put in danger by overworked and tired staff were raised today amid warnings that some surgeons and nurses ...

Researchers say a “hidden” population of people refused asylum have been allowed to live on Scottish streets with zero benefits and no rig...

 Saudi Arabia has 1,265 wealthy people with a total net worth of $230 billion. The United Arab Emirates ranked second with 810 with a total...

Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said  that being paid his €1.2m (£1m) pay, 20 times more than his average employee,  is too little, cla...

Bill Gates is in possession of $60,000 million. If he sat perfectly still and did nothing, his income at a nominal 5 per cent a year would ...

In August, China sent its first ship across the Arctic to Europe and it is lobbying intensely for permanent observer status on the Arctic C...

A Russian Orthodox bishop has lowered a "holy memorial capsule" into the sea at the North Pole in an attempt to "consecr...

Findings contained in the “Climate Vulnerability Monitor”—a study sponsored by 20 nations and conducted by the humanitarian and development...

Thousands of people are being killed or seriously injured at work because of drastic cutbacks at the UK Government's Health and Safety...

A committee of MSPs has said it is "appalled and horrified" by the discrimination suffered by Gypsies and travelling people in Sc...

Glasgow is the most polluted city in the UK – and the fifth worst in Europe – for key traffic-related emissions, according to a new repo...

Heart attack patients in Scotland are repeatedly being denied the latest life-saving treatments to save money, a leading cardiologist has w...

Thousands of people took part in a pro-independence march and rally in Edinburgh yesterday. In response Socialist Courier posts some releva...

Men from low socio-economic backgrounds living in deprived areas are ten times more likely to die by suicide than men from high socio-econo...