Socialist Standard Past & Present

The Material World column from the April 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard You can’t throw a brick these days without hitting one… phila...

From the December 2001 issue of the Socialist Standard A brief look at the Guardian’s recent ‘Giving List’ The Guardian (5 November) issu...

From the September 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard  “I don’t want to take £1 billion pounds to the grave with me.”  ( Sir Tom Hunter , ...

The Material World column from the October 2009 issue of the Socialist Standard Money is like manure.  If you spread it around, it does a l...

From the July 1960 issue of the Socialist Standard On the 11th of May there died in Tucson, Arizona, John D. Rockefeller, Jnr., son of that...

The Pathfinders Column from the September 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard It must be a great feeling for anyone with a social c...

Book Review from the December 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard Managing Democracy Managing Dissent, (subtitled ‘Capitalism, Dem...

Book Review from the March 2014 issue of the Socialist Standard Plutocrats: the Rise of the New Global Super-Rich by Chrystia Freel...

Book Review from the March 2019 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘ Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World ’. By An...

From the August 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard Part Three The concluding article of our series on ‘philanthrocapitalism’ ...

From the July 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard Part Two Part three of our series on ‘philanthrocapitalism’ If ‘self-made b...

From the June 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard Part One Part two of our series on ‘philanthrocapitalism’ One explanation...