Socialist Standard Past & Present

The Cooking The Books column from the March 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard The subject of the Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4 on 8 Februar...

Book Review from the March 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard The Right to be Lazy and Other Writings. By Paul Lafargue. Selected and tr...

From the March 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard At the ‘Just Stop Oil’ public meeting advertised at my local University, the speakers ...

The 50 Years Ago column from the March 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard  The Left is saying the crisis is coming; and from that crisis ...

Editorial from the March 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard The Labour Party leaders regard themselves as a government in waiting in the ...

From the February 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard Perhaps it is the nature of ‘the news’ and its love of drama but most commentators s...

From the February 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard One of the ways the mass media propaganda system works is through emphasis and de-em...

The Cooking the Books Column from the February 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard In his New Year speech on 5 January, the Labour Leader,...

The Bird’s Eye View Column from the February 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard Many a true word is spoken in jest ‘The Islamic religion ...

From the February 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard Over the past decades, employers have been fierce and unrelenting. Companies laid of...

The Pathfinders Column from the February 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard Do we really need this? Is it sustainable? Two questions that...

Editorial from the February 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard In 2020 the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year was ‘doomscrollin...

From the February 1945 issue of the Socialist Standard In 1847 Marx and Engels threw the Communist Manifesto at the feet of the capitalist...

From the February 1945 issue of the Socialist Standard In the Daily Express , November 30th, we read of how Earl Poulett complained in the...

Editorial from the February 1945 issue of the Socialist Standard It is not only the fighting men whose occupation ceases when a war ends; t...