Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the June 1918 issue of the Socialist Standard Link to Part VIII. Re-Birth of Unrest The revival of trade union militancy which has ta...

Exhibition Review from the May 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard A hundred years on the line – People’s History Museum, Manchester This ...

The 50 Years Ago column from the May 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard On its 50th anniversary the tales of the General Strike, real and...

Editorial from the October 1948 issue of the Socialist Standard One of the incidents of the Trades Union Congress at Margate was an angry s...

From the November 1932 issue of the Socialist Standard In January, 1931, the Textile employers declared a lock-out over wages and the attem...

From the October 1984 issue of the Socialist Standard For three weeks during the height of summer the local communities where the employees...

From the September 1905 issue of the Socialist Standard Many are the discussions that have taken place on this subject between Socialists a...

The 50 Years Ago column from the September 2022 issue of the Socialist Standard The dockers are worried about their jobs, or rather about t...

Editorial from the August 1959 issue of the Socialist Standard From the ordinary trade union point of view of a struggle to enforce more pay...

The 50 Years Ago column from the August 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard  The trouble at the London docks is an excellent illustration ...

From the May 1976 issue of the Socialist Standard On its 50th anniversary the tales of the General Strike, real and legendary, will be tol...

From the January 1959 issue of the Socialist Standard The International Transport Workers’ Federation four-day boycott of “Panlibhonco” sh...

From the September 1984 issue of the Socialist Standard Why did 120,000 miners join what has become the longest, bitterest and most contro...