Socialist Standard Past & Present

A Short Story from the January 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard As a socialist I have always found myself slipping quite natural...

From the December 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard By the time you are reading this, you will know whether there has been a Wall St...

Book Review from the April 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard “The global capitalist system . . . is coming apart at the seams”. So ...

From the October 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard Female circumcision, like male circumcision, is a practice that dates back to ...

Book Review from the October 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard Marxism and History . By S. H. Rigby, Manchester University Press,...

From the August 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard The annual UN Human Development Report is now ten years old. The latest edition p...

From the August 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard Get it right. Fascism is not an economic and social system different from capit...

From the August 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard A building of strong architecture with a fine oak door and shiny brass. In winter...

From the September 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard Along with explaining what inflation is and why it happens, another question...

From the September 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard “Futile bloody slaughter” said a man on a bus in the nineteen-thirties; and ...

From the October 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard Lin Piao is dead and in disgrace. Confucius who died a couple of thousand years...