Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the March 2002 issue of the Socialist Standard Standing there, just able to see above the top rail of the dock, Dipti did not look lik...

The Slings and Arrows column from the October 1952 issue of the Socialist Standard Empty Boasting The remarks of a London Magistrate on the...

From the August 2025 issue of the  Socialist  Standard Tony Blair emerged from his coffin recently to declare ‘We’ve got to get the younger ...

From the June 2001 issue of the Socialist Standard Scrounging on the state Newspapers like the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph delight...

The So They Say Column from the March 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard They Pretend Malnutrition, too A new addition to saloon-bar pol...

From the April 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class...

From the March 1989 issue of the Socialist Standard As if life is not hard enough already for them, the people who depend on Social Securit...

From the December 2005 issue of the Socialist Standard The changes which have taken place in what passes for welfare provision in Britain o...

From the November 2005 issue of the Socialist Standard It’s another day with a ‘Y’ in its name, so the government must be attacking benefit...

From the September 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard An 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, Tommy , (from the slang for a soldier, Tommy Atkin...

From the Special 300th issue of The Western Socialist Everybody seems to be upset these days about Welfare. The percentage of Americans who ...

The Voice From The Back Column from the October 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard Recruiting Sergeant “Bored with life on his family’s S...

From the July 2008 issue of the Socialist Standard

From the March 1998 issue of the Socialist Standard As members of the working class living on state benefits are well aware, it is quite im...