Socialist Standard Past & Present

Book Review from the November 1983 issue of the Socialist Standard The Democratic Alternative by Peter Hain (Penguin Books) Li...

From the July 1917 issue of the Socialist Standard Mr. Worker, - as your masters’ political agents are so fond of calling you at ele...

From the July 1917 issue of the Socialist Standard Apparently the one objective of the ruling class engaged in the European conflict...

From the May 1960 issue of the Socialist Standard Three million pounds is spent every day in this country by young unmarried people...

From the June 2000 issue of the Socialist Standard The state has an interest in defining poverty in such a way that only a minority ar...

From the May 1960 issue of the Socialist Standard So the Government has decided to write off its new missile Blue Streak ! It was so n...

From the May 1960 issue of the Socialist Standard Having floored them at the polls last October, the Tory Party, like any good wrest...

From the March 1930 issue of the Socialist Standard  Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, and so does humour. For instance: Magis...

From the January 1930 issue of the Socialist Standard   “The whole way along, Capitalism has stifled Art and tortured the artist. For ...

From the December 1930 issue of the Socialist Standard Readers of the Socialist Standard and listeners at our meetings will have re...

From the September 1963 issue of the Socialist Standard One swallow, said Lord Home, does not make a summer, but without any swallow...

Editorial from the September 1963 issue of the Socialist Standard Over the recently signed Test Ban Treaty there hangs a massive, i...

A Short Story from the March 1957 issue of the Socialist Standard There is nothing peculiar about Cwm Glo. It is a mining village, o...

From the October 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard On 9 September North Korea carried out yet another nuclear test. The further sprea...