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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

The "Labour Movement" (1967)

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Book Review from the May 1967 issue of the Socialist Standard The Left edited by Gerald Kaufman (Anthony Blond, 18s.) This book...

Is Bernard Shaw a Judge of Socialism? (1941)

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From the April 1941 issue of the Socialist Standard Commenting on Mr. W. J. Brown's broadcast "Is Hitler a Socialist,...

Some Notes On Party History (1954)

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From the May 1954 issue of the Socialist Standard The meetings of the Provisional Executive Committee were concerned with all the ardu...

Buying the baby (1988)

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Film Reviews from the May 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard Babies, it would seem, are big business. Having first tried to sell u...
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...