Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the October 1964 issue of the  Socialist  Standard We live today in a world of waste—a ludicrous waste of buying and selling; a crimina...

From the October 1915 issue of the Socialist Standard What We Have Left Behind. It was the custom, but a short while ago, to attribute to s...

Editorial from the August 1965 issue of the Socialist Standard It was 20 years ago this month that the world witnessed the terrifying spect...

From the July 1950 issue of the Socialist Standard Waste, ruthless and rife, is indisputably one of the outstanding characteristics of pres...

The Voice From The Back Column from the January 2002 issue of the Socialist Standard Outdated Marxism? A gap of over a 150 years separates ...

The Material World column from the February 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard Modern warfare entails the destruction of both means of pr...

From the January 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard Built into capitalism is competition between states and trading blocs for markets, ra...

From the November 2020 issue of the Socialist Standard To mark the retirement earlier this year of David Krieger, founder and director for 3...

From the September 1972 issue of the Socialist Standard How to feed the hungry Something like 90,000 tons of US chemical-warfare agents hav...

From the October 1987 issue of the Socialist Standard Most modern psychologists describe the behaviour of what they tag paranoid schizophr...

From the July 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines efficiency as “the ratio of useful work performed t...

The Finance and Industry Column from the January 1963 issue of the Socialist Standard The Planning Myth The crowning delusion of...

From the April 1991 issue of the Socialist Standard A terrible pall of acrid smoke hangs over the city. Noise! Nowhere to shelter from...