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Sunday, June 4, 2017

The Rise of the Meritocracy (1959)

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Book Review from the February 1959 issue of the Socialist Standard Society in 2034 When Swift, with satirical solemnity, suggest...

Market myths (1990)

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Book Review from the August 1990 issue of the Socialist Standard The Myth of the Market . By Jeremy Seabrook. Green Books. 1990. £6....

Charity and the State (1990)

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Book Review from the August 1990 issue of the Socialist Standard Giving: How to Encourage Charities More . By Nicholas True. Centre fo...

General Election 2017 (2017)

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Party News from the June 2017 issue of the Socialist Standard News and information on the coming election Thursday 8th June Standing ...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Manifesto (1983)

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From the June 1983 issue of the Socialist Standard You are again faced with a bunch of politicians who can only be distinguished fro...

The Power of the Vote (1983)

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Editorial from the June 1983 issue of the Socialist Standard Have the millions of workers who were fooled in 1979 by the bogus promi...

Strike-Smashing in New Zealand (1953)

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From the September 1953 issue of the Socialist Standard From New Zealand comes a book that will boil the blood of every class-consci...
Friday, June 2, 2017

Freedom of Opinion (1940)

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From the December 1940 issue of the Socialist Standard On November 18th Mussolini made a speech to the Italian Fascist Party in which...

Editorial: "But Humbly Regret —" (1911)

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Editorial from the March 1911 issue of the Socialist Standard “The Labour Party stands pledged to the Right to Work as a fundamental...
Thursday, June 1, 2017

Cooking the Books: Oh No He Didn't (2017)

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The Cooking the Books column from the June 2017 issue of the Socialist Standard Andrew Marr, in his 7 May Sunday morning show on BBC1,...

Editorial: Jeremy Corbyn’s Reformist Programme (2017)

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Editorial from the June 2017 issue of the Socialist Standard On 16 May, Jeremy Corbyn unveiled his General Election manifesto entitled...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Obituary: James McMillan (1996)

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Obituary from the June 1996 issue of the Socialist Standard The death of James McMillan in March was a shock to all members of the Gla...

Science v Religion (1960)

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Theatre Review from the June 1960 issue of the Socialist Standard In July, 1925, at the town of Dayton, Tennessee, a school-teacher ...

Cooking the Books: Ground Rents and Coronets (2011)

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The Cooking the Books column from the November 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard The slump has led to a revival of long-forgotten n...