OUR high streets are often dismal at the best of times — and at present especially so.

For just over ten years these centres of capitalism, over-consumption and exploitation have had a regular splash of revolutionary red to offer both hope and a challenge to their orthodoxy.

Each Saturday in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dumfries, a gallant little caravan of barrows, trollies, flags and — most importantly — Morning Stars trundles down to set up shop alongside the most expensive stores around.

Working, not behind, but inside the enemy’s lines — they make the case for an alternative to capitalism, in part by selling the paper!

It’s a cheery place and apart from admittedly feeble attacks from the ultra-right and narrow nationalists, it can be a fun way of carrying out political work. 

Regular visitors in Glasgow include MPs, MSPs, ex-MPs, members of the other house and the cream of the Labour movement’s shop-stewards. 

Folk from the former socialist countries tell how our paper improved their English, others tell us their granny swore by it.