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<b>Between the Lines: The detestable Lord Wyatt (1990)</b>
The Between the Lines column from the November 1990 issue of the Socialist Standard WHO FUNDS THE TORIES? Here’s your starter for ten points. Fingers on buttons, now. Ready? Right: Which of the following give millions of pounds every year to the Conservativ...
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<b>“Hyde Park Orator” (1934)</b>
Book Review from the April 1934 issue of the Socialist Standard In his “ Hyde Park Orator " (Jarrolds, 287 pages, 10s. 6d.), Mr. Bonar Thompson has written a somewhat irritating but entertaining book. He tells us about his early life in Northern Ireland, hi...
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<b>Who can boss? (1905)</b>
From the April 1905 issue of the Socialist Standard Roosevelt will fight the Trusts! So were the American people in particular and the civilized world in general told when he was put in power. Such of the American people as had knowledge smiled, if they did...
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<b>Desperate Deal in Davos (2016)</b>
The Pathfinders Column from the February 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard Not many people can be unaware that there is an antibiotic crisis looming, caused by big pharma moving out of antibiotic research into more profitable fields of enquiry, like hair...
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<b>Leaders and the Led by Rosa Luxemburg (1937)</b>
From the January 1937 issue of the Socialist Standard (Taken from an article in the Neue Zeit , year XII (1903-1904), No. 2.) Goethe's “odious majority,” composed of several vigorous spell-binders, a few scoundrels ready to adapt themselves to any cause or ...
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<b>Obituaries: Albert Baker and Paul Maxwell (1992)</b>
Obituaries from the March 1992 issue of the Socialist Standard Albert Baker East London Branch regret to announce the death of comrade Albert Baker. Comrade Baker, who was well into his nineties, joined the old West Ham branch as far back as 1923. He worked...
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<b>Snippet (1914)</b>
From the April 1914 issue of the Socialist Standard It is pleasing to note (vide the " London Typographical Circular ") that the booklet recently issued by the Army authorities was printed in a Trade Union shop. It will, no doubt, also be the pleasing resul...
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<b>A Letter from a Glasgow Docker (1947)</b>
From the June 1947 issue of the Socialist Standard Since 1932, when the Glasgow dockers broke away from the Transport and General Workers’ Union and formed their present organisation, the Scottish T. & G. W. Union, they have opposed the English dockers’ str...
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<b>It's our planet (1987)</b>
Editorial from the August 1987 issue of the Socialist Standard The central question — "Why must society live under the threat of nuclear annihilation?” — can be answered only by reference to the way society is presently organised. We live in a society which...
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David Bowie: Ground-breaking Artist (2016)
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From the February 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard January saw the death from cancer, aged 69, of David Bowie. No popular music artist o

Tolstoy On Work (1930)
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From the May 1930 issue of the Socialist Standard I was always astonished at the accepted opinion (current especially in Europe) that work i

Chips With . . . Nothing? (2002)
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Book Review from the November 2002 issue of the Socialist Standard Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation You may well think that companies like M

"SHOULD SOCIALISTS AFFILIATE WITH THE LABOUR PARTY?" (1913)
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From the September 1913 issue of the Socialist Standard A debate upon the above subject was held at the King and Queen Assembly Rooms at Bri

Was Marx Wrong About Class? (1966)
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From the June 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard Classes in Modern Society by T.B. Bottomore is a revised edition of a book which first ca

Unemployment and the Labour Party (1975)
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From the April 1975 issue of the Socialist Standard The Quarterly Economic Review of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research,

Captain Swing (1984)
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From the June 1984 issue of the Socialist Standard Walking through the Hampshire countryside on a pleasant sunny morning, it is difficult to

Worked to Death (2016)
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From the January 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard A look at cases of people being killed or injured because of their work, and at why su

English Social Democratic Parties (Concluded) (1955)
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From the September 1955 issue of the Socialist Standard See Parts One and Two in the series While the organisations we have been discussing

Breaking the ice (1989)
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Editorial from the January 1989 issue of the Socialist Standard Looking back over 1988 and forward to the New Year, how are we to understand

English Social Democratic Parties - Part 2 (1955)
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From the August 1955 issue of the Socialist Standard Part 1 here. January, 1884, the Democratic Federation brought out a weekly periodical,

Einstein discusses Socialism (1931)
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From the January 1931 issue of the Socialist Standard Professor Einstein has submitted to be interviewed by the "New Leader." In their usual

The Interview (1982)
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From the February 1982 issue of the Socialist Standard I trudge off to my weekly rendezvous with the man at the Buroo, who had sent me a let

The Game (1986)
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A Short Story from the March 1986 issue of the Socialist Standard At least the last bus hadn’t gone. Sue could see at least four people wait

The rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen (1993)
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From the February 1993 issue of the Socialist Standard If the majority of the world's people are to solve their basic problems of poverty, i

Beyond anarchism (2015)
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Book Review from the December 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard 'The Next Revolution', by Murray Bookchin. Verso. 2015. Murray Bookchin w

You Can’t Buck the Market But You Can Abolish It (2015)
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The Cooking the Books Column from the December 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO CAPITALISM, COMRADE’, wrote

Who will do the dirty work? (1981)
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From the July 1981 issue of the Socialist Standard It’s a familiar scene. You’ve been pointing out the absurdity of a system in which the pe

Law and Order in the U.S.A. (1968)
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From the December 1968 issue of the Socialist Standard A member of the World Socialist Party of the US paints a somewhat frightening picture

"An Epitaph for George Dillon" — A Study in Failure (1958)
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A Theatre Review from the June 1958 issue of the Socialist Standard "Look Back in Anger," "The Entertainer" and now "An Epitaph for George D