Socialist Standard Past & Present

The following session has been added to the programme of the Socialist Party Summer School: Dr Edmund Griffiths of the Communist Correspondi...

The New York City summer is killing me. The heat is turned up to 11(1) and Pub Rock's on the telly. It's five years since I last did...

The Life and Times column from the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard I’m one of those people who has sympathy for those human being...

The Pathfinders Column from the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard With all the far-right demagogues, mad dictators and murderous wa...

Book Review from the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Raising the Red Flag. Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism...

The Material World column from the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Noel Edmonds has much to answer for. His TV game show ‘ Deal or...

From the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard The historical influence of republicanism upon socialist thinking has been somewhat obsc...

From the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard We are told the NHS is a ‘national treasure.’ That it was built by socialists. That it be...

The Cooking The Books column from the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Governments can’t control the way that the capitalist econo...

Letter to the Editors from the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Just Stop Oil Arising out of the article in our May issue on Just ...

Letter to the Editors from the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘White privilege”? This letter is in response to the Pathfinders a...

From the July 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘That means less money to cover rent, the weekly shop or a pint down the pub’ (Nigel Far...