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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

About Books (1953)

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  Book Reviews from the August 1953 issue of the Socialist Standard Russian novelists have a knack of cramming their stories with su...
Monday, December 14, 2015

The Last Word: Why Santa should get stuffed (1997)

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Cartoon by Peter Rigg. The Last Word Column from the December 1997 issue of the Socialist Standard There is much to be said for ab...

Past, Present, and Future (1908)

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From the May 1908 issue of the Socialist Standard Andrew Carnegie! Pierpont Morgan! Names not without meaning to the man in the stre...

Seasonal Goodwill, Dodgy Deals and Unreliable Witnesses (2015)

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The Halo Halo! Column from the December 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard Jingle bells, jingle bloody bells. Yes, it’s that time of...

Obituary: Don Poirier (2002)

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Obituary from the February 2002 issue of the Socialist Standard We are saddened to have to report the death from cancer of comrade Don...

Are You a Wage Slave? (2012)

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From the January 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard Most people object to being told that they are a wage-slave but why? The n...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

The Vitalising Principle of the Socialist Party of Great Britain (1955)

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From the March 1955 issue of the Socialist Standard The Socialist Party of Great Britain was organised in 1904 in order to achieve t...

One O'Clock, Two O'Clock, Three O'Clock, Rock . . . (1957)

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From the February 1957 issue of the Socialist Standard Rock, Around the Clock . . . Yes, Rock n' Roll is the craze—from London t...

Marilyn Monroe: A Cultural Phenomena (1954)

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From the November 1954 issue of the Socialist Standard "Beauty is only skin-deep," wrote the Self-Made Merchant to his son...

Hope for Nicaragua (1985)

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From the January 1985 issue of the Socialist Standard For years Nicaragua was run by the Somoza family who, in return for maintaing ...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

The Demand for "Workers" Control (1945)

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From the December 1945 issue of the Socialist Standard Reynolds News (4th November, 1945) published the following letter:—    "I...
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Too Little Too Late . . . (2015)

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From the December 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard . . . That’s the most that will ever be done under capitalism about the problems ...
Friday, December 11, 2015

"Security" and the terror in South-East Asia (1996)

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From the March 1996 issue of the Socialist Standard " The Indonesian Government remains a military dictatorship that has little hes...

Help yourselves (2011)

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Book Review from the April 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Help! by Oliver Burkeman. Canongate. £12.99 Subtitled ‘How to B...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Marx and the State (1979)

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Book Review from the November 1979 issue of the Socialist Standard Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution. Volume 1: State and Bureaucra...