Socialist Standard Past & Present

The Running Commentary column from the September 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard Bad news After all the efforts of Oxfam, Bob Geldof a...

From the September 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard "The biggest cause of rheumatic heart disease was lack of sufficient food and, ...

From the September 1982 issue of the Socialist Standard Late last year, Ronald Reagan was reportedly telling delegates from the World Bank...

From the October 1976 issue of the Socialist Standard Capitalist economists like to pretend that the world’s population cannot be fed with...

From the Winter 1987-88 issue of the  World Socialist  British agriculture is notable for being the most mechanised in the world. There are ...

From the October 1975 issue of the Socialist Standard It is estimated that the awesome number of 460 million of our fellow human beings are...

From the September 1971 issue of the Socialist Standard Under capitalism we are faced with a seemingly insoluble contradiction. Poverty and...

From the January 1962 issue of the Socialist Standard Agriculture may not be the most important problem for Britain in its negotiations ove...

From Issue 20 of the World Socialist Review The practice of vegetarianism — or non-practice of animarianism * — is not new to humanity. How...

From the November 1986 issue of the Socialist Standard For more than a decade now. the gap between population growth and food production in...

From the November 1984 issue of the  Socialist  Standard In June a Danish MEP, Jens-Peter Bonde , put down a written question in the Europea...

Adapted from the October 2025 issue of the  Socialist  Standard Withdrawal Symptoms by The Socialist Party of Great Britain Even in a social...

Book Review from the May 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard The Nature of Nature. The Metabolic Disorder of Climate Change . By Vandana S...