Socialist Standard Past & Present

The Life and Times column from the February 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard Ever since I can remember I’ve had a subscription to the N...

The Tiny Tips column from the January 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard We may be much more entertained by charity now. But on account o...

From the October 2006 issue of the Socialist Standard July brought two publications coincidentally including articles on the same subject. ...

From the December 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard The Big Butterfly Count takes place every year in the UK: volunteers record how many ...

The Political Notes Column from the May 1987 issue of the Socialist Standard The Poor and the Rich Dismal news for the purveyors of the gra...

From the April 2002 issue of the Socialist Standard Last year the  New Internationalist  asked its readers for “their own vision of a ...

Book Review from the January 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard Things are Going to Get Worse and Why We Should be Glad .  By Mich...

First issue of New Internationalist. From the April 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard The magazine, New Internationalist , was fi...

From the November 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard How should poverty be measured if at all? Part of the measure of statistics is t...

Book Review from the March 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard People First Economics . Ed. David Ransom and Vanessa Baird, New Internatio...

From the August 2006 issue of the Socialist Standard I've been toying with the figure $35 billion which I heard the other day - toyi...