March 28, 2022 by Alan Johnstone
Workers’ struggles fill many of the forgotten pages of American history. The great labor uprising of 1877 is a case in point.
September 1, 2022 by Michael Schauerte
In nearly every media interview in recent months, Mick Lynch, general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and …
August 17, 2022 by World Socialist Party US
The authorities are pushing the idea of love for the motherland-nation into the heads of the common people, presenting the idea in an extremely perverted form …
August 7, 2022 by Stephen Shenfield
A surge is underway in military spending and arms sales, fueled by the war in Ukraine and the confrontation over Taiwan. Global demand for advanced …
May 5, 2022 by Stephen Shenfield
Accidents will happen. Under any social system. People are imperfect. They make mistakes and those mistakes sometimes cause accidents. Some accidents may be a matter …
Blog
Britain’s Political Crisis (1975)
From the October 1975 issue of The Socialist Standard Text of a letter sent by a member of the World Socialist Party of the US to the American left-wing ...
Capitalism and Underdevelopment: Where Leninists Go Wrong
From the Summer 1986 issue of The World Socialist The whole Leninist theory of imperialism turns on two or three major concepts: the twin notions of super-profits and super-exploitation, monopoly ...
Archives, Film Review, History
What Was He Fighting For? (2011)
From the May 2011 issue of The Socialist Standard Phil Ochs as the Sound of the “New Left” A new documentary film on the life and music of Phil ...
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (2010)
Book Review from the February 2010 issue of The Socialist Standard First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Žižek. Verso, 2009. Has Slavoj Žižek (the superstar Slovenian “theorist”) signed ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bolshevism and the Third International (1936)
From the February 1936 issue of The Socialist Standard By no means unanimous will be the interpretations placed on the programmes formed at the recent seventh World Congress of the Communist ...
Archives, Capitalism, Class, Economics
I Wannabe a Plutocrat! (2013)
The Material World Column from the August 2013 issue of The Socialist Standard Dear Material World, My life’s dream is to become a fully paid-up member of the capitalist ...
Archives, History, Socialism, Uncategorized
Who the Hell Was Karl Marx? (1998)
The following is a transcript of a paper that was presented at the Socialist Party of Great Britain’s 1998 Summer School, which was held at Fircroft College in Birmingham, ...
Archives, History, Terror, Uncategorized
Leonard Peltier and the Primal Needs of Capital* (2004)
From Issue 19 of The World Socialist Review In a remote section of South Dakota just north of Nebraska lies an Indian reservation known as Pine Ridge. At ...
