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Dishonest Tactics (1972)
From the September 1972 issue of the Socialist Standard SELF-STYLED REVOLUTIONARY TELLS ALL  On 18th May a speaker from the Socialist Party of Great Britain went to the University of Kent, at Canterbury, for a debate on “Should the Working Class Support the...
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Who needs leaders? (2016)
Book Review from the July 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard 'Being Red: A Politics for the Future', by Ken Livingstone, (ed. Anna Minton). Pluto Press, 2016 Ken Livingstone is probably not an antisemite in any meaningful sense of the term, only a fairly ...
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From the September 1967 issue of the Socialist Standard How they got the Scottish Highlands Even after a newcomer to Socialism has seen that capitalism is based on the exploitation of the workers, he may still feel th...
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New Left (2011)
Book Review from the September 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard The Crisis of Theory: EP Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics . By Scott Hamilton, Manchester University Press, 2011 Many socialists would count EP Thompson's books among the...
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Saving Private Capitalism (2016)
The Cooking the Books column from the July 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard American capitalism is, apparently, suffering a ‘crisis of faith’, at least according to a 5-page article featured on the front cover of  Time  magazine (23 May). The author, Ra...
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Intelligence is not understanding (1980)
From the September 1980 issue of the Socialist Standard Is a child born with a certain level of intelligence or is it acquired, through upbringing and education? Or perhaps some of both? Arguments over this question are common, and they indicate the extent ...
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Primitive Accumulation (1967)
From the September 1967 issue of the Socialist Standard How they got the Scottish Highlands  Even after a newcomer to Socialism has seen that capitalism is based on the exploitation of the workers, he may still feel that originally the propertied class must...
From the September 1967 issue of the Socialist Standard How they got the Scottish Highlands Even after a newcomer to Socialism has seen that capitalism is based on the exploitation of the workers, he may still feel th...
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What Kind of Revolution? (2016)
Letter to the Editors from the July 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard Dear Editors Your article on the General Strike weapon (May Socialist Standard ) whilst informative and useful is quite faulty on a few key points. First, you grossly underestimate and...
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Africa 1960 (1960)
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From the March 1960 issue of the Socialist Standard At the height of colonialism there were only two independent states in the whole of Afri

What's your share (1985)
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From the March 1985 issue of the Socialist Standard Many reformist parties throughout the world, particularly Labour and various social demo

The Result of "Trust": A Lesson of the Great Strike (1926)
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From the June 1926 issue of the Socialist Standard Huxley once said that Hutchinson Stirling's “explanation” of Hegel had made the darkness

The Media Versus the Workers (1982)
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From the March 1982 issue of the Socialist Standard The class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control at the

The Old Bill and the new Tony (1993)
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Ilustration by George Meddemmen. From the July 1993 issue of the Socialist Standard One of the traditions of British politics is that the To

The causes of xenophobia (2001)
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From the May 2001 issue of the Socialist Standard Africans living in other countries which are not their countries of origin are grimly accu

Capitalism or Socialism (1973)
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From the August 1973 issue of the Socialist Standard Capitalism is based upon the private ownership of the means of life with all production

But Which People? (2016)
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Book Review from the May 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard 'The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class'. By Selina Todd. (John Mu

. . . and When Demand Exceeds Supply (2016)
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The Cooking the Books column from the May 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard There is a housing shortage in London. Or rather, paying dema

Tony Blair – Big Business, Big Dictators, Big Money (2016)
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From the April 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard Blair’s successful career of getting people to vote for him and make him Prime Minister,

The value of discontent (1966)
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Editorial from the June 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard Private property society is a class-divided society. Because of this, it inevit

Prejudices (1984)
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Book Review from the May 1984 issue of the Socialist Standard The Thatcher Government by Peter Riddell (Oxford, 1983) This book, an examinat

Why ecology is important (1989)
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Editorial from the April 1989 issue of the Socialist Standard In recent years the environment has become a major political issue. And rightl

The Tribune Group: Organized Hypocrisy (1975)
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From the September 1975 issue of the Socialist Standard The Circus provides many political analogies. There are the clowns, of course; balan

Japan: the courage of a few (1983)
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Book Review from the November 1983 issue of the Socialist Standard The Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan by John Crump (Croom Helm, 1983

Jimmy Hill (2016)
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Letters to the Editors from the March 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard Jimmy Hill Dear Editors The obituary on Jimmy Hill (February Soci

Revolution not reform (1906)
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From the September 1906 issue of the Socialist Standard We are soldiers of the Social Revolution. No reform can bring any economic benefit t

Interpreting Marx (1982)
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From the June 1982 issue of the Socialist Standard One of the books the Socialist Party recommends to those wanting an introduction to Marx'

The Face of Capitalism (2016)
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The Cooking the Books Column from the March 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard 'I find it terrible that we allow companies to behave like