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 …
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Archives, Book Review, Economics
Build It Now? (2007)
Book Review from Issue 21 of The World Socialist Review Build It Now: Socialism For The Twenty-First Century by Michael A. Lebowitz Marx wrote: “Men make their own history, ...
The United States and Imperialism (1986)
From the Summer 1986 issue of The World Socialist The history of US imperialism dates back to the times of the foundation of the nation. Whether making ...
