Socialist Standard Past & Present

Letter to the Editors from the August 1915 issue of the Socialist Standard To The Editor. The S.LP. of A., in dealing with the criticism of...

Letter to the Editors from the June 1917 issue of the Socialist Standard F. A. H. (Leicester.) — Taking your points in the order in which y...

From the July 1905 issue of the Socialist Standard By Politics we mean the business of Government, that is to say, the control and managem...

From the September 1941 issue of the Socialist Standard In the present war the word democracy is continually being used by many who have di...

From the May 2020 issue of the Socialist Standard Such a thing as society? Margaret Thatcher once famously said that there is no...

From the April 1920 issue of the Socialist Standard Vague and misunderstood, or meaningless, phrases have proved useful weapons to t...

From the January 2017 issue of the Socialis t Standard Is the social philosophy of Marxism a ‘pernicious illusion’, a variant of a ‘uto...

From the January 2017 issue of the Socialist Standard The concept of power is an important but contested one. For socialists the que...

From the July 1992 issue of the Socialist Standard No doubt it will be John Smith —the John Major clone—who will emerge this month a...

Book Review from the April 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard ' Who Governs Britain? ' By Anthony King. Penguin £8.99. ...

From the February 1983 issue of the Socialist Standard The concept of power is a confused one. Whether we're thinking about poli...