Socialist Standard Past & Present

Letter to the Editors from the November 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard Shut Up and Shut Out At the meeting of the "Hackney Comm...

Letter to the Editors from the November 1989 issue of the Socialist Standard Ideas and Struggle Dear Comrades, I found an old copy of your...

Party News from the November 1961 issue of the Socialist Standard Blogger's Notes: Socialist Current were a small orthodox Trotskyist ...

Party News from the August 2026 issue of the  Socialist  Standard   As ever a fabulous day out where there is always a real buzz all day. I ...

From the May 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard Last month the Central Executive Committee, the ‘collective leadership’ of the (ridiculou...

From the January 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard Over the weekend of 29-30 November some 2000 attendees at a conference in Liverpool f...

From the October 1988 issue of the  Socialist  Standard The poor workers whose job is to paint the Forth Bridge: no sooner have they finishe...

From the October 1982 issue of the Socialist Standard The advent of capitalist production in sixteenth- to nineteenth-century Britain was m...

Pamphlet Review from the September 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Why you should be a communist . By Fiona Lali. Wellred Books. £2. 2...

The 50 Years Ago column from the September 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard An accomplished variation of the three-card trick was perfo...

From the March 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard A New Election Programme? The most hilarious buffoonery of the election was the Internat...

From the March 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard Sham socialists show their true colours Ever since the SPGB was founded we have at all ...

Book Review from the March 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard The Party is Always Right . By Aidan Beatty. Pluto Press. 2024. This is sub...

The Cooking the Books column from the December 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘What would be a workers’ Budget?’ the Trotskyist Worke...