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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Vietnam and the Anti-war Movement (1966)
From the September 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard Vietnam will one day take its place beside Hiroshima and Auschwitz as an example of a time when ...
A Rose by Any Other Name (1954)
From the May-June 1954 issue of the Western Socialist We are all “socialists” now. Let us witness the parade: The Churchill Tory socialists, the French Radical Socialists, the ...
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 ...
