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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Football Wars (2012)

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From the July 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard In 1969 rioting by fans during a World Cup match between Honduras and El Salvador...

Sport and the Spirit of Capitalism (2012)

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From the November 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard Today the scandal in professional cycling is doping: a hundred years ago it w...

Running Commentary: Freddie's Fall (1982)

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The Running Commentary column from the March 1982 issue of the Socialist Standard Freddie's Fall Speaking in the House of Comm...

Letter: Capitalism and Apartheid (2014)

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Letter to the Editors from the February 2014 issue of the Socialist Standard Dear Editors I would question the claim made in the...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

A hundred years of the Labour Party (2006)

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From the April 2006 issue of the Socialist Standard The Socialist Party was formed in 1904. The Labour Party didn’t come into being ...

Cooking the Books: Green Recipe for Raging Inflation (2014)

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The Cooking the Books column from the February 2014 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘The Green Party believes’, reads a resolution c...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Science, Uncertainty and the Bomb (1998)

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Theatre Review from the September 1998 issue of the Socialist Standard Copenhagen by Michael Frayn. National Theatre. Michael F...

Capitalism – barrier to useful work (2011)

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From the May 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Many are suffering the misery of unemployment while much useful, necessary work re...

Dreaming of the future (2014)

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Book Review from the February 2014 issue of the Socialist Standard Poor Man's Heaven: The Land of Cokaygne and Other Utopian Vis...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Why We Want Socialism (1927)

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From the October 1927 issue of the Socialist Standard Old people tell us how lucky we are living in an age when the aeroplane and the ...

Pathfinders: The Speed of Enlightenment (2012)

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The Pathfinders Column from the January 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard Anyone interested in physics yet curmudgeonly enough to h...

The fall of the ILP (2007)

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Book Review from the November 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard The Failure of a Dream. The Independent Labour Party from Disaf...

Mis-spent youth (1986)

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From the April 1986 issue of the Socialist Standard It seems that the government's new two-year Youth Training Scheme has got of...