Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the September 1906 issue of the Socialist Standard We are soldiers of the Social Revolution. No reform can bring any economic ben...

From the August 1975 issue of the Socialist Standard Wealth under capitalist society takes the form of commodities. Although commodi...

From the April 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard William Morris in 1887 when there were rumours of a war with Germany:  “If war ...

The Greasy Pole column from the March 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard Hutton is a name which in its time has distinguished some f...

Book Review from the February 1996 issue of the Socialist Standard William Morris in Manchester and Salford by Edmund and Ruth Frow...

A Short Story from the April 1979 issue of the Socialist Standard In Italy recently there was much craning of necks and straining of...

The Between the Lines column from the December 1989 issue of the Socialist Standard The Soppy Season This is the month of the year ...

From the April 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard One of the favourite current themes of newspaper columnists, and of politicians,...

From the April 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard I was one of the enthusiastic teenage supporters of CND who took part in the 1964 E...

From the April 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard For CND the great days are over. Nowadays, almost the only sign that it ever exi...

From the December 1923 issue of the Socialist Standard Bonar Law is dead. While he lived he was our enemy. Now that he is dead must w...

From the October 1975 issue of the Socialist Standard In the heyday of organized protests against the Vietnam war, seven or eight ye...

The Cooking the Books Column from the March 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard 'I find it terrible that we allow companies to be...

From the March 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard For many on the Left, James Connolly is their archetypal class warrior but his pa...