Socialist Standard Past & Present

The Pathfinders Column from the November 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard The Nobel Prize awards have been no stranger to controversy o...

From the September 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard A look at the 'other China' Start with Hong Kong. A bouquet of modern capit...

From the September 2001 issue of the Socialist Standard A look at what lies behind the recent protest and police killings in Jamaica Jamaic...

From the July 2001 issue of the Socialist Standard For many years we have read about hunger in Africa. Newspaper headlines and television n...

From the May 2000 issue of the Socialist Standard  Sixteen years after television cameras first brought the plight of Ethiopia’s starving m...

From the July 1998 issue of the Socialist Standard In recent weeks newspaper headlines have highlighted the plight of starving millions in t...

From the May 1998 issue of the Socialist Standard “Aid agencies warn of famine in Sudan” ( Guardian, 7 April). “Starving North Koreans on ...

From the September 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard “Futile bloody slaughter” said a man on a bus in the nineteen-thirties; and ...

From the January 1997 issue of the Socialist Standard Twenty-three years ago, the then US Secretary of State. Henry Kissinger, vowed...

The Running Commentary Column from the February 1980 issue of the Socialist Standard NO TRAGEDY, CAMBODIA For years, Cambodia has ...

From the November 1976 issue of the Socialist Standard Arch-reactionary Barry Goldwater, who was for all-out war in Vietnam in 1964 ...