Socialist Standard Past & Present

The Voice From The Back Column from the July 2000 issue of the Socialist Standard Between $373 billion and $1.6 trillion   . . . is what it...

From the May 2000 issue of the Socialist Standard All is not well in the “Celtic tiger”. Just after trade unions, employers and the governme...

From the February 2005 issue of the Socialist Standard Bertie Aherne calls himself the last ‘socialist’ in Irish politics, but the media don...

From the July 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard “We are being committed to radical, long-term policies for which no one voted” (The...

From the April 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard   This was an election about which set of politicians was to impose austerity. ...

From the July 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard Voting one way or the other was not going to change the reality that capitalism in ...

From the March 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard The CIA World Fact Book is a useful resource for looking at how our masters view t...

From the December 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard The only flourishing industry in Ireland now seems to be economic punditry. A fell...

The Cooking the Books column from the July 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard A photo of a row of empty newly-built houses in Dublin...