Month: May 2019

Archives, Book Review, History, Socialism

An American Marxist (1990)

Book Review from the May 1990 issue of The Socialist Standard Daniel De Leon. By Stephen Coleman. Manchester University Press. £25. The contribution to socialist thought of Daniel De ...

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Archives, Film Review, History, War

Film Review: Lincoln (2013)

Film Review from the March 2013 issue of The Socialist Standard Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner is based on Team of Rivals: The Political Genius ...

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Archives, Book Review, Class

Michael Harrington’s ‘The Other America’ (1964)

Book Review from the March 1964 issue of The Socialist Standard The Other America. Michael Harrington, Penguin, 3s. 6d. There is a pretty little myth that America is the ...

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Archives, Film Review, War

Refusnikism (2007)

Film Review of Sir! No Sir! from the March 2007 Socialist Standard David Zeigler’s documentary Sir! No Sir! looks back on the movement within the military to end the Vietnam War, interviewing ...

Michael Schauerte

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Archives, Book Review, Class, Socialism

The Life and Letters of Isaac Rab (2011)

Book Review from issue 22 of The World Socialist Review Role Modeling Socialist Behavior: The Life and Letters of Isaac Rab, by Karla Doris Rab. 504 pages. Lulu ...

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Archives, Socialism

Liberate Technology. Liberate Ourselves. (2018)

From the February 2018 issue of The Socialist Standard Technology has evolved to the point where there is no reason why food, clothes, housing, medical care, education, transportation, computers, books, cell ...

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Archives, Class, Work

The Sit-down Strikes in America (1937)

From the April 1937 issue of The Socialist Standard America, we have often been told, is the great land of “Liberty”. They boast there of their “Liberty Statue” and ...

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Archives, Politics

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 ...

Ron Elbert

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Capitalism, Class, Environment

Lead Poisoning in Flint, Michigan

By Alan Johnstone The wheels of justice turn slowly. Lead poisoning also acts slowly, but is no less pernicious for that. The city of Flint’s water crisis ...

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Archives, Book Review

Bogdanov, Technocracy and Socialism (2007)

From the April 2007 issue of The Socialist Standard The terms “Bolshevism” and “Leninism” are usually treated as synonyms. In view of Lenin’s enormous influence over the ...

Stephen Shenfield

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