Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the October 1987 issue of the Socialist Standard On a summer day in August, Michael Ryan took to the streets of Hungerford arm...

From the February 1982 issue of the Socialist Standard This is a question often asked when we explain that in socialist society the ...

From the February 1959 issue of the Socialist Standard It has always been fashionable for the champions of so-called Western Democra...

From the November 1990 issue of the Socialist Standard We live in a society where almost everything is bought and sold. That which y...

From the March 1992 issue of the Socialist Standard  "The fact of the matter is that the credit for this particular form of state c...

From the July 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard

From the March 1979 issue of the Socialist Standard Watch out, all you believers in common sense. Albert Einstein was born on this d...

Book Review from the March 1992 issue of the Socialist Standard National Liberation by Nigel Harris. (I B Tauris, £24.95.) Capi...

Film Review from the August 1989 issue of the Socialist Standard By any standards Mississippi Burning directed by Alan Parker is a ...

From the December 1979 issue of the Socialist Standard On 7 January this year Pol Pot was toppled from power, and a few days later t...

Editorial from the February 1991 issue of the Socialist Standard So capitalism has again unleashed the horrors of war. The Socialist...

Editorial from the December 1990 issue of the Socialist Standard Who the hell cares which political dinosaur will lead the Conservat...

From the March 1989 issue of the Socialist Standard The addition of foreign substances to food for profit is as old as capitalism. I...

The Between the Lines column from the February 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard 1968 and all that Back in the late sixties, whi...

From the May 1973 issue of the Socialist Standard The governor of a large London prison is reputed on good authority to have said t...