Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the Summer 1976 issue of The Western Socialist Mr. Gilbert McClatchie, author and lecturer on Socialist theory, died in London o...

From the June 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard Those who hold that capitalism is about ‘free enterprise’ and ‘healthy competition’...

From the June 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard Historians will no doubt argue for years to come exactly what is meant by the term ...

Woodcut by Clifford Harper From the June 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard Gerrard Winstanley’s writings were only rediscovered ...

From the June 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard The world is overpopulated, we are told, and this alleged overpopulation (often con...

From the June 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard It is worth briefly noting a letter from Sir Keith Joseph in The Guardian of April 2...

From the June 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard The Labour government, as its White Paper published at the end of March on the Brit...

From the June 1978 issue of the Socialist Standard The other morning, switching on the BBC overseas service, I heard the rhythmic spel...

The  Voice From The Back column from the June 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard Minimum wage, ‘living’ wage or a world without? ...

The Action Replay column from the June 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard After all the ballyhoo and razzmatazz the big fight was di...

The Free Lunch cartoon from the July 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard

The Cooking the Books Column from the July 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘Marx was Right’ was the title of the text of the o...

The Halo Halo! column from the July 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard You know what it’s like when you have a job done but due...

The 50 Years Ago column from the July 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard Twenty years ago this month, Great Britain elected the firs...

Letter to the Editors from the July 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard Dear Editors Paul Bennett does an excellent job in his ar...