Socialist Standard Past & Present

The 50 Years Ago column from the November 1995 issue of the Socialist Standard Before the election Sir Stafford Cripps stated, for the Lab...

The 50 Years Ago column from the November 1963 issue of the Socialist Standard The Lancaster Pit of the Universal Colliery at Senghenydd wa...

The 50 Years Ago column from the November 1990 issue of the Socialist Standard Doubtless there are some adherents to Socialism who, seeing ...

The 50 Years Ago column from the November 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard Socialists have always maintained that parties, such as the ...

The 50 Years Ago column from the September 1957 issue of the Socialist Standard There can be no relief for the oppressed Irishman in changi...

The 50 Years Ago column from the September 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard We are asked if we want foreign workers to take jobs away f...

The 50 Years Ago column from the September 1996 issue of the Socialist Standard Not many years ago the "intellectual," with his ...

The 50 Years Ago column from the September 1965 issue of the Socialist Standard (Kautsky and others had argued that while Socialists should...

The 50 Years Ago column from the October 1985 issue of the Socialist Standard First let us examine the League of Nations. Its name obscures...

The 50 Years Ago column from the October 1963 issue of the Socialist Standard Many people, when faced with this question, conjure up pictur...

The 50 Years Ago column from the October 1962 issue of the Socialist Standard Samuel Plimsoll hated Toryism, but the depth of his hatred of...

The 50 Years Ago column from the October 1975 issue of the Socialist Standard There is evidence that capitalism has yet a considerable futu...

The 50 Years Ago column from the October 1961 issue of the Socialist Standard At the recent Trades Union Congress. . . a resolution was mov...

The 50 Years Ago column from the October 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard Patriotism has been described as “the last refuge of a scound...

The 50 Years Ago column from the October 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard The death of Mao Tse-Tung has been anticipated for many year...

The 50 Years Ago column from the September 1962 issue of the Socialist Standard At a time when the toilers are engaged in a bitter struggle...

The 50 Years Ago column from the September 1994 issue of the Socialist Standard The Manchester Evening News of May 25, 1944, publishes an ...

The 50 Years Ago column from the September 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard The way to stop understanding of events is to show them as ...

The 50 Years Ago column from the August 1962 issue of the S ocialist  Standard . . . Often there seems to be an idea—an entirely erroneous i...

The 50 Years Ago column from the August 2026 issue of the S ocialist  Standard     Students who come to the UK from abroad to study make ano...