1877: A Legacy To Celebrate

March 28, 2022 by Alan Johnstone

1877: A Legacy To Celebrate

Workers’ struggles fill many of the forgotten pages of American history. The great labor uprising of 1877 is a case in point.

But What About the Wage-Price Spiral?

September 1, 2022 by Michael Schauerte

But What About the Wage-Price Spiral?

In nearly every media interview in recent months, Mick Lynch, general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and …

Petya and the Authorities

August 17, 2022 by World Socialist Party US

Petya and the Authorities

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 …

Humanity on a Cross of Iron

August 7, 2022 by Stephen Shenfield

Humanity on a Cross of Iron

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 …

Accidents Will Happen — And That Is No Accident

May 5, 2022 by Stephen Shenfield

Accidents Will Happen — And That Is No Accident

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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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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The Struggle in U.S.A. (1919)

From the September 1919 issue of the Socialist Standard   The Movement of the Blind America badly needs a Socialist party. The deep ignorance of the workers ...

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