The Campaign Against Prohibition in the U.S.A. (1932)
From the September 1932 issue of the Socialist Standard At the time of writing arrangements are being made to hold a big parade, and it is claimed that many trade unions and working men have applied for permission to march in it. The parade is to protest against the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition), and to demand the legalising of beer. […]
The Coming Election in the U.S.A. (1932)
From the October 1932 issue of the Socialist Standard The two great burlesque shows recently held in Chicago are now things of the past—the conventions of the two major political parties in the United States to nominate their respective candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President, and to frame their respective platforms with which each party […]
Bourgeois Blues: The Future of a Collusion (2017)
From the March 2017 issue of the Socialist Standard “I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I’ll get on my knees and pray We don’t get fooled again” (— The Who) […]
Ballyhoo and baloney (2008)
From the October 2008 issue of the Socialist Standard The National Conventions of the Democratic and Republican Parties have become forums for putting the finishing touches on the “cult of personality” of the candidates, culminating with the vacuous speeches of the candidates themselves. A demagogue, H.L. Mencken once said, is someone “who will preach doctrines he knows to […]
Trump’s Economist Advisors Seeing Red Everywhere (2018)
From the December 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard The word ‘socialism’ is more attractive than scary these days—and that has the White House worried. Two hundred years after the birth of Karl Marx, socialism is making a comeback in the United States. That is not our optimistic claim, but rather the view expressed by the Trump […]
Can the Tea Party save the American Dream? (2010)
From the December 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard The right-wing Tea Party movement is, according to some commentators, turning into a mass, ‘grassroots’ movement and revolutionising politics in America. Is it? If the ‘lame-stream media’, to steal an appropriate phrase, is to be believed, then there has been a ‘massive’, indeed ‘historic’, change in […]
