Socialist Standard Past & Present

I just discovered via Spintcom , the SPGB discussion list, the incredibly sad news that Janet Carter has passed away.  Janet originally join...

Letter to the Editors from the August 2003 issue of the  Socialist  Standard When did socialism start? Dear Editors Your exchange with Ron S...

From the March 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Richard Headicar describes how his socialist viewpoint on the world developed, and some...

Letters to the Editors from the November 2000 issue of the Socialist Standard Who are the cowards? Dear Editors, There could hardly be a be...

Letter to the Editors from the July 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard One cold Friday night some 40 years ago, I had what I have now com...

From the February 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard Up until Brexit politics didn’t really feature much in my life except for a brief ti...

From the April 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard I was one of the enthusiastic teenage supporters of CND who took part in the 1964 E...

From the 1965 - Number 2 issue of The Western Socialist While walking that damp and dreary spring evening I came to a shop which, in my...

From the February 1996 issue of the Socialist Standard Socialists are not fabricated. They are people who have reached a state of un...

From the December 1977 issue of the Socialist Standard Looking back, I can see that I was nearly a middle-of-the-road floating voter...