Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the October 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘The idea that socialists want free stuff is the great lie of capitalism. Socialists w...

From the April 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard On 13 February Krishnan Guru-Murthy interviewed Clara Mattei for Channel 4 News to disc...

From the May 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard LETS, or local exchange trading systems, boil down to being localised barter clubs each o...

Book Review from the December 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard How to make opportunity equal: race and contributive justice. By Paul Go...

The Cooking the Books Column from the February 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard To promote his book, Mute Compulsion, A Marxist Theory ...

From the April 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard We discuss this with Steve Paxton, author of How Capitalism Ends. History, Ideology and...

From the August 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard Czechoslovakia, as its unwieldy name suggests, was one of the artificial “nation-State...

Letter to the Editors from the December 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard Dear Editors The review of my book Socialism for Soloists (Oc...

Book Review from the October 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard Socialism for Soloists . By William Edmundson. (Polity. 2021) This is an ...

Book Review from the April 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard  An Inheritance for Our Times. Principles and Politics of Democratic Social...

Book Review from the July 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology. Ed. Iain McKa...

From the WSPUS website Opinion polls suggest that the younger age groups in the United States – colloquially referred to as ‘millenni...