Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the October 2026 issue of the Socialist Standard In the Daily Telegraph ( 1 September ) a Brigadier Ed Butler protested, claiming tha...

The Slings and Arrows column from the October 1952 issue of the Socialist Standard Empty Boasting The remarks of a London Magistrate on the...

The Material World Column from the September 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard In 2020, the Inspector General of the Australian Defence ...

From the June 2024 issue of the  Socialist  Standard Millions of people are horrified by the Israeli war on Gaza. Protests have hit the stre...

The Pathfinders Column from the May 2024 issue of the  Socialist  Standard The world held its breath last month as April showers of Iranian ...

From the November 2004 issue of the Socialist  Standard In a University Challenge for thugs, students confront their teachers, from the wor...

The Tiny Tips column from the October 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard Some women who were raped at the US’s Abu Ghraib prison facility...

From the September 2006 issue of the Socialist Standard On the fifth anniversary of the al-Qaeda attack on New York and Washington, we refl...

The Slings and Arrows column from the September 1952 issue of the Socialist Standard “Qui s’ecuse, s’accuse” The return of the Dean of Cant...

From the April 2003 issue of the Socialist Standard All these quotations are genuine comments, made by the people named – except that we hav...

Letters to the Editors from the April 1995 issue of the Socialist Standard No opposition worth mentioning Dear Editors, Politics is the art...

From the September 1998 issue of the Socialist Standard On numerous occasions in recent years, this journal has highlighted the shortcoming...