Socialist Standard Past & Present

The Cooking the Books Column from the February 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard Next month is the 250th anniversary of the publication ...

From the August 1911 issue of the Socialist Standard Writing editorially in “ The Gas World ” of July the 15th, a learned scribe asks how ...

From the Summer 1986 issue of the World Socialist In July of last year at Helsinki there was a meeting of various foreign ministers called t...

From the June 1950 issue of the Socialist Standard The 1939-45 Great War and His Majesty’s third Labour Government have made the people of t...

From the July 1905 issue of the Socialist Standard The man in the street is comforted. If ever he had any doubts concerning “his” country’s...

The Life and Times column from the May 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘I was drunk when I wrote the messages below and I apologize fo...

From the July 1965 issue of the Socialist Standard Why do individual prices rise and fall and why, at certain times, is there an upward move...

The Cooking the Books column from the July 2008 issue of the Socialist Standard On May the index of the factory gate price of manufactured ...

The Cooking the Books column from the December 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard The Times (22 October) reported Alan Jope, the CEO of ...

From the November 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard In the halcyon summer days of 1914 when all was right with the world and God was in h...

The Cooking the Books column from the July 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘Markets were right to be spooked by the threat of rising i...

From the February 1965 issue of the Socialist Standard Ever since socialists first appeared and made the case for abolishing capital...