Socialist Standard Past & Present

From the February 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard So what’s happened over the globe in the year just gone by? It’s certainly been full...

The Action Replay column from the February 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard In December last year Tom Ilube stepped down as chair of th...

The 50 Years Ago column from the February 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard It is the purpose of this article to show what Mao really st...

Editorial from the February 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard On 20 January Donald Trump officially became president of the United State...

The Life and Times column from the January 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard The ‘Life and Times’ column I wrote for this year’s April S...

The Pathfinders Column from the January 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Mainstream news stories are an endless diet of misery which ac...

From the January 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard What is Big Tech? How did it get so big? Has Big Tech got too big for the rest of the...

The Cooking the Books column from the January 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard In the week before the budget last October the i paper ...

Book Review from the January 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Poetry for the Many . Compiled by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey. (O/R B...

From the January 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard (Continued from last month) Previously we looked at how we live under capitalism. It’...

The Material World column from the January 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Nothing quite so vividly demonstrated the absurdity of exis...

From the January 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Over the years, the word ‘socialism’ has been used to mean many different things – in...

From the January 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard In October there was a by-election to elect a new ward councillor in South Acton, Lon...