Classic Archive

Archives, Politics, Socialism

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 ...

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Archives, Capitalism

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 ...

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Archives, Politics

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 ...

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Archives, Politics

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 ...

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Archives, History, Socialism

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 ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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, 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 ...

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