Month: August 2015
The Theoretical System of Karl Marx (1968)
Book Review from the 1968 – number 3 issue of The Western Socialist The Theoretical System of Karl Marx by Louis B. Boudin, Monthly Review Press, ...
The Yom Kippur War (1973)
From the 1973 – number 6 issue of The Western Socialist There are several ways of looking at a problem, depending upon one’s point of view. Take ...
Marxism in the USA (1968)
Book Review from the December 1968 issue of the Socialist Standard Marxian Socialism in the United States, by Daniel Bell, Princeton University Press. 17s. 6d. This ...
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 ...
Joe Hill: Songwriter to the Working Class (2000)
From the October 2000 issue of the Socialist Standard Eighty-five years ago, on 19 November 1915, Joe Hill, a rootless, unassuming migratory worker and member of the ...
The Mind of a Social Democrat (1966)
Book Review from the 1966 – number 5 issue of The Western Socialist The Accidental Century by Michael Harrington (New York: Macmillan Co., 1965) Next to ...
Trade Unionist Extraordinary (1985)
From the November 1985 issue of the Socialist Standard Eugene V. Debs was born 130 years ago, on 5th November 1855. Although a member of the reformist ...
What About the Meantime? (1955)
From the March-April 1955 issue of the Western Socialist. To the Editors: I read your magazine regularly and find it interesting, informative and also puzzling. What puzzles ...
Rockefeller’s Roast (1914)
From the July 1914 issue of the Socialist Standard For six months past the miners employed by the Rockefeller interests in Colorado have been out on strike ...
Where Rockfeller Rules (1913)
Book Review from the June 1913 issue of the Socialist Standard “Poverty,” by Robert Hunter. London : The Macmillan Co. 2s. net. This is a cheap reprint ...