"As a party member, I will work hard and teach other people how to get rich together and let more people benefit by getting rich,...

The term shellshock was not coined ­until 1915. By 1938, more than 128,000 men were diagnosed with the condition.  “The condition was often...

Socialism Militant   Commonweal, Vol 4, No. 117, 7 April 1888, p.106-7 Since a year may make a good deal of difference in the position o...

The Sequel of the Scotch Letter  Commonweal, Vol 2, No. 26, 10 July 1886, p.114 On Sunday 27th June I lectured on the ‘Political Outlook’...

Rangers only narrowly escaped extinction and now bankruptcy is the prospect facing current Scottish Cup holders Heart of Midlothian. The Ja...

The Scottish government has confirmed the wording of the question it plans to put to the people of Scotland in the independence referend...

Shelter Scotland has warned. that 5300 youngsters will wake up on Christmas Day in poor quality temporary accommodation with no prospect...

William Morris (1834-1896) A Letter from Scotland Commonweal, Vol 2, No. 25, 3 July 1886, p.105-106; On Tuesday 22nd I found my...

  "The religious reflex of the real world can, in any case, only then finally vanish, when the practical relations of every-day life...

According to economics professor John Foster, the aggregate wealth of Britain’s richest 1,000 people was in 2010 some £333 billion, equiv...

"It's a human tragedy on a massive scale," says Gerry McCartney , an epidemiologist at NHS Scotland. David Walsh , a lead re...

Although commonly called the October Revolution because of a change in calendars, it took place 95 years ago on this day. The Socialist P...

The father of a Fife miner who was killed at a mine in New Zealand said he was "disappointed and angry" to hear the gas blast was...

Since the Industrial Revolution there has been a Us versus Them.  Lined up on one side are the men and women who do the actual work, who ...

The gulf between the health of the affluent and the poor in Scotland is exposed in a new report which shows the divide is wid...

The capitalist class flood the air waves with illusory phrases such as, “national economic interest,” “national security,” “national uni...

Christia Freeland has spent 20 years of her life working for the Financial Times and Reuters and she has recently turned her long ...

The daily press in Britain is fond of creating the myth that workers are gradually improving their economic position in society but ...

To be sure, Socialist Courier is offering no defence of American policy. Where US interests are challenged there are no lengths American g...