Socialist Standard Past & Present

Editorial from the December 1905 issue of the Socialist Standard The very latest is a ”Right to Work Committee” upon which, a number of midd...

Book Review from the March 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard The Right to be Lazy and Other Writings. By Paul Lafargue. Selected and tr...

From the December 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard Usually it’s only Christmas, and maybe a week or two in summer, when more fortunate ...

Book Review from the October 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard How to be Idle . By Tom Hodgkinson. Penguin. Here is a handbo...

Book Review from the December 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard In Praise of Slow . By Carl Honoré. Orion Books. How To Be Free. ...

Book Review from the April 1976 issue of the Socialist Standard The Right to be Lazy , by Paul Lafargue. Charles H. Kerr, Chicago. N...

Editorial from the July 1907 issue of the Socialist Standard The Labour Party will soon need to cry “Save us from our friends”! The ...

Editorial from the October 1986 issue of the Socialist Standard When Paul Lafargue wrote his well-known pamphlet The Right to be Lazy...

From the January 1977 issue of the Socialist Standard The title of this article is by way of an apology to Marx. His grave at Highga...

From the November 1971 issue of the Socialist Standard In the course of the French revolution of 1848 the workers of Paris  went int...

From the issue 7 1994 of the Idler Magazine : The French labour activist dreamed of a three hour day for everyone, was thrown in prison for ...

From the January 2004 issue of the Socialist Standard The Socialist Party has just republished this classic pamphlet by Paul Lafargue ...