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Sunday, January 1, 2017
Cooking the Books: The First Lost Decade Since the 1860s (2017)
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The Cooking the Books column from the January 2017 issue of the Socialist Standard In a speech in Liverpool on 5 December Mark Carne...
Editorial: Russia Never Was Socialist (2017)
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Editorial from the January 2017 issue of the Socialist Standard This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution where the fo...
Saturday, December 31, 2016
What causes famine? (1989)
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From the December 1989 issue of the Socialist Standard One popular explanation of the cause of famines sees them as being due simply...
Marx’s Contribution to the Critique of Reformism (2009)
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From the June 2009 issue of the Socialist Standard Marx wrote a book 150 years ago that shows why money exists today and how we can get a...
Friday, December 30, 2016
Pathfinders: A Seasoning of Goodwill (2016)
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The Pathfinders Column from the December 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard Rather than festive, people are getting restive. In th...
Monday, December 12, 2016
Ghost of Christmas past (1981)
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A Short Story from the December 1981 issue of the Socialist Standard During an ambitious interlude, brief but puzzling, in my dreamy...
The Catholic Church, Capitalism and Socialism (2016)
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From the December 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum, or ‘Rights and Duties of Capital ...
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Prohibition. (1925)
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From the December 1925 issue of the Socialist Standard We are not opposed to the Prohibition— of swipes and adulterated water. Nor d...
The Collapse of Capitalism. (1922)
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From the February 1922 issue of the Socialist Standard There is a notion widely held in certain circles that capitalism is in a stat...
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Marx and Lenin - Distorted Views (1933)
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Book Reviews from the December 1933 issue of the Socialist Standard Karl Marx by R. W. Postgate. 1s. 6d. Lenin , by R. Palme D...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Rumpelstiltskin - a fairy story for adults (1988)
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A Short Story from the December 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard Long ago in a kingdom now gone there lived a miller who had a v...
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The Poison of Nationalism (1973)
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From the March 1973 issue of the Socialist Standard In the struggle to win the minds of the working class Socialists have to contend n...
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