Socialist Standard Past & Present

Letter to the Editors from the November 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard Shut Up and Shut Out At the meeting of the "Hackney Comm...

The Life and Times column from the November 2025 issue of the  Socialist  Standard There was a ring on the bell. When I opened the door, a s...

From the March 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard A New Election Programme? The most hilarious buffoonery of the election was the Internat...

From the March 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard Sham socialists show their true colours Ever since the SPGB was founded we have at all ...

The 50 Years Ago column from the July 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard On Saturday 15th June in London the National Front held a march ...

Letters to the Editors from the September 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard Insularly aloof? It appears that in this society you are eit...

From the April 1977 issue of the Socialist Standard  A professional revolutionary called Bronstein adopted the then fashionable idea of a no...

From the June 1977 issue of the Socialist Standard The fact that all other parties are reformist is fundamental to the case of the S...

Book Review from the May 2020 issue of the Socialist Standard Winter at the Bookshop . Sylvia Riley. Five Leaves. 2019 Essentia...

From the January 1976 issue of the Socialist Standard In 1968 was published an English translation of Ernest Mandel’s monumental work...

Book Review from the October 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Br...

From the August 1977 issue of the Socialist Standard The Socialist Party is unique among political parties in this country because unl...