Socialist Standard Past & Present

Introductory note. As a researcher, I am swamped by a constant stream of Working Papers, Discussion Papers, Position Papers, Occasional P...

From the April 2005 issue of the Socialist Standard Although the word socialism is itself more or less modern, its meaning can be said t...

From the April 2005 issue of the Socialist Standard Although the word socialism is itself more or less modern, its meaning can be said t...

Cross-posted from the WSPUS MySpace Page Anyone who has paid attention in history class probably observed that the major periods in Americ...

From the April 1937 issue of the Socialist Standard America, we have often been told, is the great land of "Liberty". They bo...

From the March 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard According to legend the ancient Greek natural philosopher Democritus was eating a pi...

From the March 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard The bungled execution of Saddam Hussein has raised this issue again. But executions in...

Latest post from the SPGB blog, Socialism Or Your Money Back Commencing a letter to Labour Party Prime Minister Harold Wilson on 22nd Dec...

DVD Review of Sir! No Sir! from the March 2007 Socialist Standard David Zeigler's documentary Sir! No Sir! looks back on the mov...

Book Review the July 1970 issue of the Socialist Standard Lenin's What Is To Be Done?   (Panther Modern Society) This work by Len...

From the February 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard The technological dynamism of capitalism is undeniable. But the functioning of capit...