Socialist Standard Past & Present

Book Review from the October 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard No More Deaths by Welfare . By China Mills. Pluto Press, 2026 We’ve long a...

The Pieces Together column from the January 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard Another Labour failure “Labour’s strategy for tackling pov...

The Voice From The Back Column from the September 2004 issue of the Socialist Standard An oil business  It is not just socialists who point...

TV Review from the October 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard There is little more unsettling than watching some oily defender of capital...

The Greasy Pole column from the June 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard Waiting For Poverty Two years after he set out on his historic dr...

From the June 1992 issue of the Socialist Standard One further aspect needs to be dealt with in this the last in our series of articles on...

From the June 2006 issue of the Socialist Standard Knowing the history or etymology of a word does not always tell anything about its curren...

From the April 2020 issue of the Socialist Standard When incoming left-wing Labour MP Zarah Sultana condemned the record of the Lab...

From the April 1951 issue of the Socialist Standard The position of the working class in capitalist society is like that of Sisyphus, t...

From the May 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard So the cat is finally out of the education bag — at last. The cracks have finally ...

The Voice From The Back Column from the November 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard The Class Struggle Today (1) That we live in...

From the December 1950 issue of the Socialist Standard When Lord Acton penned his famous dictum that, because of the corrupting influ...

Editorial from the September 1950 issue of the Socialist Standard Forty-five years ago, just after the formation of the S.P.G.B. and j...