Socialist Standard Past and Present

01/01/2025

Speed past my waffle at the start of the post.

Click on the link for the list of the 20 most popular posts on the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog for the year ending 2024:

First post of the year should be a (brief) look back at the blog in 2024. Unfortunately, I spread myself a little too thin in 2024. I only p...

25/12/2024

A selection of Christmas related articles that have appeared in the Socialist Standard down the years:

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/12/its-cliched-to-be-cynical-at-christmas.html

With added humbug.

Charles Dickens has a lot to answer for. There, I thought I'd get the humbug out the way, and then move on. Posted below are links to a sel...

13/12/2024

If you're in London. (Click on the picture for full details.)

01/12/2024

Jack Margolin's The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army is reviewed in this month's Socialist Standard:

http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/12/paid-to-kill-2024.html

28/11/2024

The late Ralph Critchfield – ‘Ivan’ in the Socialist Standard – really was a terrific writer.

An excellent article of his from 1965 on the Labour Left that’s just been scanned in. Totally on point:

From the November 1965 issue of the Socialist Standard In his time, Mr. Harold Wilson has been cast in many roles. One of the latest, as th...

04/10/2024

Tonight's SPGB Zoom Meeting.

"Lenin: Anti-Tsarist revolutionary who succeeded or revolutionary socialist who failed?"
Speaker Adam Buick

4th October 7.30pm (Greenwich Mean Time)



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12/09/2024

The Cooking the Books column from the September 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard, 'Trumponomics':

The Cooking the Books column from the September 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘On the campaign trail, Trump has floated a ten-per-ce...

23/06/2024

Going way back.

From the Socialist Standard archives, an excellent takedown of the Richard Crossman edited 'The God That Failed' by Ted Wilmott:

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-illusion-of-disillusionment-1950.html

23/05/2024

SPGB Zoom Meeting, Friday 24 May 19.30 (GMT + 1)

*THE SPGB AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR*
*Guest Speaker: Keith Scholey*

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25/04/2024

On this day in history in 1938 George Orwell's memoir from the Spanish Civil War, The Homage to Catalonia, was published.

Posted below is a link to a selection of articles and book reviews from the Socialist Standard covering both Orwell and the Spanish Civil War:

On this day in history in 1938 George Orwell's memoir from the Spanish Civil War, The Homage to Catalonia , was published. Posted below are ...

12/04/2024

WSM meeting Friday 12th April 19 30 (18.30ut) "UKRAINE AND POLAND 1918-1947" (Zoom) Speaker: Mark Zneiderwicz

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31/03/2024

Karl Marx and the environment. From Das Kapital:

From this 'interview': https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2007/07/interview-with-marx.html

22/03/2024

From the March 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard Last November voters in Argentina elected as President, Javier Milei , who must have sty...

22/03/2024

From this month's Socialist Standard, 'An ‘anarcho-capitalist’ explains'; the elevation of Javier Milei to the Argentinian presidency:

From the March 2024 issue of the Socialist Standard Last November voters in Argentina elected as President, Javier Milei , who must have sty...

08/03/2024

Regular readers of the Socialist Standard will know about the longstanding column, Pathfinders, which

". . . broadly looks at aspects of science and technology in capitalism, with an eye on how they might look or be applied in a future world where money and profit are not the driving factors."

Click on the link below for more details about a new page dedicated to the Pathfinders column, giving a list of columns in chronological order, and which also lists the 20 most popular Pathfinders columns from down the years:

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/03/new-blog-page-pathfinders.html

15/02/2024

A World of Free Access Andrew Armitage Mike Ballard

2005 Jan: SocialSim City Feb: Tsunami Special Mar: How would socialism deal with waste and pollution? Apr: What would a socialist societ...

15/02/2024

Pathfinders is a column that broadly looks at aspects of science and technology in capitalism, with an eye on how they might look or be appl...