Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the May 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard So the self-appointed guardians of democracy, America, Britain, and France have ...

Editorial from the May 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the May 1968 events in Fran...

The Cooking the Books column from the April 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard During the 19th century, even before Germany became...

Blogger's Note: Yes, I know it could be said that Shaw's short story is a dig against the Impossibilists of his day, but I don'...

The 50 Years Ago column from the January 1962 issue of the Socialist Standard Machinery, says the Liberal, has deepened the working ma...

Editorial from the March 1965 issue of the Socialist Standard The aircraft industry is giving British capitalism perhaps its biggest he...

The Greasy Pole column from the April 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard The relationship between Ministers of the Crown and the civ...

Editorial from the April 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard Donald Trump fought the Presidential campaign pledging to put ‘Ameri...

Karl Marx in 1859. From the March 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard 5th May 2018 marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth...

From the May 1932 issue of the Socialist Standard When enumerating the virtues of the present order of society and the difficulties th...

From the April 1932 issue of the Socialist Standard So Briand , the famous French Parliamentarian, is dead, and as would be expected t...

From the March 1932 issue of the Socialist Standard The State is the public power of coercion. It arose out of the early division of soc...