Socialist Standard Past & Present

Editorial from the November 1947 issue of the Socialist Standard The Communist International, formed in 1919 at a time when Lenin and his a...

Book Review from the October 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard The Revolutionary Movement in Britain 1900–21. The Origins of British Com...

Book Review from the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Raising the Red Flag. Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism...

From the June 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard It used to be an axiom of Party speakers that if the Labour Party did not exist the cap...

The 50 Years Ago column from the September 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard What a tragedy was the life of Harry Pollitt ! Here was a m...

From the June 1931 issue of the Socialist Standard From information that has been published from time to time about the number of its membe...

Book Review from the April 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘ The Gleam of Socialism ’. By Robert Griffiths, Praxis Press, 2004. Why is...

TV Review from the October 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard On three consecutive Tuesdays in October (one of them ironically the wed...

From the March 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard A recent series of programmes on BBC Radio 4, ‘ Britain’s Communist Thread ’, looked at...

From the October 1979 issue of the Socialist Standard The chief thing to realise about the Communist Party is that it isn’t. Whatever the p...

From the April 1928 issue of the Socialist Standard Elsewhere in this issue appears a review of “ A History of English Socialism ,” writte...

Party News from the July 1956 issue of the Socialist Standard Report of Meeting at Denison House As was reported briefly in the May issue ...

From the January 1942 issue of the Socialist Standard  In our October issue we dealt with a complaint by the Socialist , organ of the Soci...

From the October 1941 issue of the Socialist Standard  In a long and angry statement headed ‘The ‘Truthful’ S.P.G.B.” the Socialist , organ...

From the November 1939 issue of the Socialist Standard It is many years since a prominent English Communist fell a victim to the acrobatic ...