Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the September 1949 issue of the Socialist Standard The world is in a pretty mess, and our newspapers are full of the news that the va...

From the October 1936 issue of the Socialist Standard The great and widening gap between capitalist luxury and working-class poverty is one ...

From the September 1948 issue of the  Socialist  Standard In orthodox economics the population theory of Malthus , British Economist, 1766-1...

From the November 1947 issue of the Socialist Standard The Son of Matteotti “The municipal elections due to take place next Sunday have be...

From the October 1952 issue of the Socialist Standard A spectre is haunting Asia—the spectre of Malthusianism. It so haunted Professor A. V...

From the June 1946 issue of the Socialist Standard ” . . . If this country does not get 4,000,000 tons of grain quickly, anything between 5...

The Finance and Industry Column from the September 1960 issue of the Socialist Standard American Democrats & British Labour In their ec...

From the December 1942 issue of the Socialist Standard Since the beginning of the present conflagration we have been assured by numerous au...

From the September 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard In the year 1800, there were one billion humans alive. Seventy years ago, the world ...

The Rear View Column from the February 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard Dirty Writing of manual scavenging – ‘the age-old unfortunate pr...

From the April 1950 issue of the Socialist Standard Once again over-production and unmarketable supplies of food are the order of our day. ...

Book Review from the December 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard As I Recall by Lord Boyd Orr (Macgibbon & Kee) This is a...

From the December 1946 issue of the Socialist Standard Over a year has passed since military operations on a large scale were tempor...