Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the November 1995 issue of the Socialist Standard It is beginning to dawn on the new rulers of Russia that the advice they have been r...

From the September 1994 issue of the Socialist Standard In recent years Russia has provided a continuous stream of surprises for many outsi...

Book Review from the May 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard A Marxist Analysis of the Soviet Economy . By Erwan Moysan. Routledge Frontie...

From the September 1992 issue of the Socialist Standard When the Berlin Wall came down and the Cold War ended, many in the West breathed a...

TV Review from the July 1996 issue of the Socialist Standard Despite attempts by both the Tory Party and the BBC hierarchy to stifle its inv...

The Life and Times column from the June 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard A few months ago I attended a talk at my local university enti...

From issue 9 of the World Socialist Review

The Between the Lines column from the August 1992 issue of the Socialist Standard The Beggars' Tragic Opera Embarrassing. Condescending...

The Sting in the Tail column from the March 1992 issue of the Socialist Standard Another Dud Czech It Is difficult to run capitalism, whet...

From the September 1995 issue of the Socialist Standard Socialism is dead! So say all the capitalist political pundits. Yet not one of them...

From the September 1990 issue of the Socialist Standard The East German state circus, traditionally one of the most revered in the world, ...

From the August 1990 issue of the Socialist Standard The party is not quite over yet – but nearly. Everybody knows that the party has been ...

Editorial from issue 7 of the World Socialist Review The “failure of communism” has come to be peddled as the latest version of the usual id...