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Monday, August 24, 2015

Dystopia (2012)

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Book Review from the May 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard Intrusion by Ken MacLeod. (Orbit 2012) The science-fiction author...

Man's degradation (1963)

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From the September 1963 issue of the Socialist Standard "Degradation! What degradation?" The neatly-dressed grey-haired wom...

The Left: Once more boring from within (1977)

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From the January 1977 issue of the Socialist Standard "Left" is pidgin-political for reformers babbling of green fields, s...

Ballot-Box or Baton? (1922)

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From the April 1922 issue of the Socialist Standard An "Unemployed Demonstration" is one of the most saddening spectacles ...

Observations: Tales from Africa (1988)

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From the October 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard Once upon a time (in August 1871 to be precise) the German Karl Mauch explore...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Was Kinnock always a Tory wet? (1991)

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From the June 1991 issue of the Socialist Standard Restless is hardly the word to describe members of the Labour Party as they conte...
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Enlightening realism (1997)

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Theatre Review from the May 1997 issue of the Socialist Standard East Is East by Ayub Khan Din (And Roots by Arnold Wesker) Ea...

The Company Men (2011)

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Film Review from the April 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard The Company Men , directed by John Wells This was at first a per...

"I Took off My Tie" (1936)

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Book Review from the December 1936 issue of the Socialist Standard "I Took off My Tie" by Hugh Massingham (W. Heinemann, LT...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

A review of "The Diplomacy of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald" (1925)

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Book Review from the April 1925 issue of the Socialist Standard The Diplomacy of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald by U. D. C (Price 3d. Labour Mo...

The birth of Labourism (2000)

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From the February 2000 issue of the Socialist Standard When the Labour Party was founded it did not even claim to stand for Socialis...
Friday, August 21, 2015

The truth about Russia (1981)

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From the November 1981 issue of the Socialist Standard "Why don't you go back to Russia?" is the standard comment of t...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

After Seeing a Performance of "The Trojan Women." (1920)

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From the March 1920 issue of the Socialist Standard What though you beat the earth and cry aloud To all the dead that you have loved an...
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Party News (1969)

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From the June 1969 issue of the Socialist Standard Despite police 'protection' and a rival Paisleyite meeting, Belfast branch...

Six Days Shalt Thou Labour, and on the Seventh … (2015)

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From the August 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard Workers in the retail industry will be relieved that George Osborne’s recent budg...