Socialist Standard Past & Present

The Passing Show Column from the November 1952 issue of the Socialist Standard Human Nature One of the most common arguments met with by th...

From the November 1976 issue of the Socialist Standard It is one of the perennial criticisms we Socialists have to face: A harmonious soci...

Pamphlet Review from the September 1953 issue of the Socialist Standard “ Must Man Wage War ? ” by F. A. Crew . Thrift Books No. 18.
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From the June 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard Earlier this year BBC television serialised a new adaptation of William Golding’s famou...

Book Review from the August 2026 issue of the  Socialist  Standard     Conflict Resolution . By Douglas P. Fry. Edward Elgar. 2026. 121pp. ‘...

From the December 2025 issue of the  Socialist  Standard     It’s become widely accepted that, for well over 200,000 years, hunter-gatherers...

From the July 1911 issue of the Socialist Standard The Capitalist Ideal … ‘a law-abiding citizen‘ Those four words constitute the very high...

From the March 1995 issue of the Socialist Standard Fifty years ago saw the liberation of those who remained the victims of the Nazi death ...

From the September 1981 issue of the Socialist Standard Socialism will be a world society without a police force. In fact, it will be a so...