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1930

 

No. 305 January 1930*

• Editorial: Labour Party’s Main Plank Gone
• Obituary: Death of a Comrade
• How To Get Rich
• Aspects of the “Woman Question”
• Answer to a Correspondent: Socialism and the Gold Standard
• Party News
• A Look Round
• Peace Upon Earth . . . And How To Get It
• The Socialist Labour Party Runs Away
• Socialism and Art
• Death of a ‘Hero’
• Dictatorship or Democracy

 

No. 306 February 1930*

• What is behind the Naval Conference?
• Editorial: The Socialist Movement in Other Countries
• How not to get Socialism
• The results of rationalisation
• A Look Round
• A Labour Party Promise and a Capitalist Admission
• Shall We Praise the Lord?
• Tugan-Baranowsky’s Criticism of Marx(
• Answer to Correspondent. Bank Loans and Deposits
• Party Activities

 

No. 307 March 1930*

• Editorial: The Priests and Politics
• Groan with the Bishop
• Answer to a Correspondent: Is there Socialism in Russia?
• Answer to a Correspondent: What is Socialism?
• Answer To Correspondents: “Bank Loans and Deposits”
• Do You Know?
• Karl Marx On The Suffrage
• The Labour Party and The City
• Party News: SPGB Meetings
• The Fallacy of Empire Free Trade
• Socialism and the Economic “Experts”
• Life and Laughter
• Communist Rowdies
• The Paris Commune
• Socialism in Sheffield: The Recent By-election

 

No. 308 April 1930*

• What Price Nationalisation?
• Editorial: The Uselessness of Reforms
• Socialism and Violence
• Economic and Political organisation
• A Look Round
• Brotherly Love in the U.S.A.
• Marx Among the Classics
• Is the ‘Manual’ Worker the Only ‘Producer’?
• The Decay of Religion
• Socialism and Psychology
• Classes, but not class antangonism
• Our circulation
• Death of a Comrade
• Gift to Library

 

No. 309 May 1930*

• Editorial: Remember Belgium!
• To New Readers
• Choose Your Job — And Get Rich
• Tolstoy On Work
• Party News: A Debate (with J.T.Murphy of CPGB)
• Book Review: Socialism vs. Nationalism
• Karl Marx on Christianity
• Received For Review
• Book Review: The Workers’ Share
• Points for Propagandists: Whose Savings?
• Labour Party Leaders Make Unemployment
• Book Review: A Commentary on the Communist Manifesto
• Book Review: Portrait of the Labour Party

 

No. 310 June 1930*

• Why the Communists Have Failed – Parrot Disease
• Editorials: Secret Diplomacy. The Power to Produce
• Pull up the Blinds
• A Knight out
• Minds and Muddle
• Points for Propagandists
• Answers to Correspondents
• Book Review: ‘Imperialism and World Economy’ [Bukharin]

 

No. 311 July 1930*

• Will Independence Help India?
• Editorial: What the Labour Government has done
• What rationalisation means to the workers
• The Cloak of Religion
• The “New” Socialism
• Mr. J.H. Thomas and the Unemployed
• Can We Get Socialism Through Parliament?
• The Illusions of Sir Oswald Mosley
• A Look Round
• Answers to Correspondents: Is Christianity “fizzing out”?
• [Notes]
• Hull Branch

 

No. 312 August 1930*

• Socialism and Birth Control.
• Book Review: Lessons From Trotsky’s Life Story: A Dictator Denounces Dictatorship
• Parliament or Soviet
• Notes by the Way: Laski’s Error
• Police Spies and the Communist Movement
• The forces making for Socialism
• “The Socialist”
• Party News: Edinburgh
• Appeal for funds

 

No. 313 September 1930*

• Russia: Land of High Profits
• Editorial: Labour Government’s Solution
• The Great Lie
• “Capital” Going Abroad
• Notes by the Way
• Points for Propagandists
• A Socialist Searchlight
• Letter: The case for Spiritualism
• Letter: Economic Questions
• Letter: The Pay of Civil Servants
• Party News: Paddington To The Fore

 

No. 314 October 1930*

• The Profit-Sharing Snare. Co-partnership Schemes Exposed
• Editorial: Lessons from the German elections
• Women’s Freedom
• Jesus and Economics. Dean Inge on Marx
• Studies in Economic Fallacy
• A Socialist Searchlight: Where Are The “Reds” of Yesteryear?
• Canadian Notes
• Party News: Party Activities
• Answers to Correspondents

 

No. 315 November 1930*

• International Organisation
• Editorial: The Labour Government and Socialism
• Ramsay McDonald and the “Great War”
• Marx, Lenin and Industrial Unionism
• Can the workers understand Socialism?
• Who Owns “Our” Country?
• Miners and Airmen. A Contrast in Tragedies
• Spiritualism
• Answers to Correspondents
• Party News: Another Step Forward

 

No. 316 December 1930*

• What The Socialist Party Stands For
• Editorial: Wages Under Labour Government
• Light on Soviet Russia
• Parliament or Soviet: A Reply to the ‘Proletarian’ (U.S.A)
• The French Socialist-Communist Party
• A Socialist Searchlight
• How to Study Socialism
• An Important Event
• Answers to Correspondents

 

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1931

 

No. 317 January 1931*

• Editorial: The Labour Party Drops Its Programme
• The Futility of Compromise
• Industrial Unionism
• Party News: SPGB Meetings
• Is a Gold Shortage the Cause of Unemployment?
• A Question to Non-Members
• The I.L.P. and The German Independent Socialist Party
• The Tyneside Communist Collapse
• A Winter’s Tale
• Must Wages Come Down?
• Einstein Discusses Socialism

 

No. 318 February 1931*

• Why Socialists Oppose Family Allowances
• What the Cotton Lock-out Means
• The Bankruptcy of Liberalism
• The Socialist Party and the Trade Unions
• “Too Much Wealth In The World”
• Currency, Credit and Socialism
• The Socialist Forum: Socialism By Dictatorship
• The Socialist Forum: Socialism and Equality
• The Socialist Forum: Should we contest elections?
• Letter: Socialist Organisation
• Letter: Is steel more useful than tobacco?
• Letter: Are workers worse off?
• The Workers’ Socialist Party (U.S.A.)
• Our readers and the next General Election
• Activities in West Ham: Labour Party Shirks Debates

 

No. 319 March 1931*

• The Case Against The ‘Living Wage’
• Editorial: The Labour Party’s Thirty-One Years
• A Diary of Labour Government
• Under the Southern Cross. A Letter fom Australia
• How the Fascists Gained Power
• Pity the Poor Capitalist
• What is Capital?
• The Socialist Forum
• A Cock-Eyed World: Some Items From The Press

 

No. 320 April 1931*

• The Mosley Party. Old Fallacies Re-Furbished.
• Editorial: A Red Herring
• Machines in Offices. A Call to Clerical Workers
• A Socialist Searchlight
• The Socialist Forum
• Book Review: Psychology and Socialism
• Socialists and the Communist Party
• Poem: ‘The People’
• The Fall of Riazanov
• Is Russia to blame?

 

No. 321 May 1931*

• Socialism and Social Reforms
• Editorial: The Labour Party Drops Nationalisation
• England’s Prosperity—India’s Poverty
• Civil Servants and Bonus Cuts
• A Socialist Searchlight
• The Socialist Forum
• Obituary: Comrade MacHaffie

 

No. 322 June 1931*

• What is the Class Struggle?
• Editorial: The Labour Party’s Budget
• India To-day
• The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party
• A Socialist Searchlight
• Political and Economic Organisation: Some Common Objections Answered
• Why Socialism is inevitable. The Marxian view
• Answer to a Correspondent: Are there Socialists in Parliament?

 

No. 323 July 1931*

• The Economic Crisis and the Workers
• Editorial: Russian Illusions
• Lives and Profits
• Emancipation or Palliation?
• The Socialist Party versus The New Party
• A Socialist Searchlight
• The Socialist Forum
• Socialism v. Co-operation

 

No. 324 August 1931*

• Editorial: The German Crisis
• Letter: A New Reader Asks Some Questions
• Letters: The Socialist Forum: The Value of Emotional Appeals
• Party News: Movements Abroad
• The Socialist Party and War
• A Tribute From An Unexpected Quarter
• A Great Thought for Today
• The Socialist Party v. The Communist Party – A Debate
• Brutal Attack on A Speaker

 

No. 325 September 1931*

• Editorial: The Great Fiasco: Contemptible ‘Labour’ Government
• Letters: Answers To Correspondents
• Letters: The Socialist Forum
• Letter: A Criticism from a Ruskin College student
• Party News: An Appeal For Funds
• The Founding of The Socialist Party
• A Socialist Searchlight
• Rationalisation In Agriculture
• What the I.L.P. Have Done for the Workers
• Equality and the Wages System

 

No. 326 October 1931*

• Labour Party and the Crisis
• Editorial: The Gold Standard and the Workers
• The Communists and the Labour Party. How Moscow Helped MacDonald
• The Founding of the Socialist Party – Part 2
• The Socialist Forum: Are the Workers Robbed?
• The Socialist Forum: Should Socialists compromise?
• A Socialist Searchlight. Mr. Maxton Gives A Date
• Mr. Bromley day by day

 

No. 327 November 1931*

• Do We Need A Five-Year Plan?
• Editorial: Sound and Fury. The Election and the Workers
• General Election, 1931
• The Gold Standard and the Crisis
• Ought We to Back the “Left-Wing” Labour Leaders?
• Socialism for Great Britain only
• Party News: A Word To Sympathisers

 

No. 328 December 1931*

• The Basis of Socialist Organisation. A Lesson of the Election
• Editorial: Futilities & Tragedies
• Are We Wrong About Capitalist Crises?
• Book Review: “The House of Industry”
• The Socialist Forum
• Pillars of the State
• Overproduction Baffles the Capitalists.
• Rationalising the petrol industry

 

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1932

 

No. 329 January 1932*

• Socialism and the Tariff Issue
• Editorial: The Prospect of the Future
• The Trouble in the Post Office
• The Gold Standard and the Crisis
• A Letter to a Worker
• An Apostle of Public Ownership
• The Socialist Forum
• Notes by the Way
• Newcastle-on-Tyne

 

No. 330 February 1932*

• “The Hell of Steyr” (From an Austrian Correspondent)
• Editorial: The Rent Strike Stunt
• Atheism, Religion and Socialism
• Capitalism’s Crises: Well-known Communist Discovers Marx
• Russia and the Social Revolution
• A Promising Movement in France
• The Socialist Forum
• The Causes of a Fall in Prices
• A Booklet about the Gold Standard
• The Enormous Unemployment in France
• ‘Jack London and Socialism’
• Mr. Clifford Allen on the Lust for Power

 

No. 331 March 1932*

• The Importance of Parliament
• Editorial: Bunglers at Work
• A Debate with the I.L.P.
• War and the Workers. Reflections on the Eastern Crisis</a.
• Answers to Questions. Did Marx Contradict Himself?
• Mr. Walton Newbold Makes a Confession
• Are We Practical?

 

No. 332 April 1932*

• Briand: A Lesson in Leadership
• Editorial: Our 28th Annual Conference
• Marx and a Professor
• A debate with the I.L.P. [Continued]
• Notes by the Way
• The Socialist Forum: Can Russian Peasants be Industrialised?
• The Socialist Forum: Engels and Minority Action
• The Socialist Forum: The Programme of the Russian Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries
• The Socialist Forum: Some Questions about Gold

 

No. 333 May 1932*

• Kreuger: A Product of His Time
• Editorial: State Control of Banks
• The Cause of the Crisis
• Free Trade and Protection
• Socialists and the Labour Party
• Socialism and Industrial Organisation
• Letter: Who Are the Inventors? How the Capitalists “Save”
• America and the War
• The Ford Bubble Pricked

 

No. 334 June 1932*

• The Backward Countries. A Problem for Socialist Policy
• Editorial: The Campaign for Inflation. A Workers’ Delusion
• American Notes
• Marx and Dictatorship
• Another Communist Leader Walks the Plank
• Notes by the Way
• The Socialist Forum: Parliament and the Bankers
• The Socialist Forum: The S.P.G.B., Trade Unions and Unemployed Organisations
• The Socialist Forum: A Question about Zionism
• Some questions about Socialist policy
• Silly rivalry

 

No. 335 July 1932*

• The Capitalist Never Learns
• Editorial: About Ourselves
• The Position of the Workers
• The Outlook for Socialism in Russia
• The Proposed Socialist Party of India
• The Need to Control Parliament
• The Socialist Attitude to Reforms

 

No. 336 August 1932*

• The German situation
• Unemployment and the Remedy
• The Capitalist Never Learns – Part 2
• Who Are The Fatalists?
• Is It A New I.L.P.?
• Socialists and War
• Social contrasts
• Lest we forget

 

No. 337 September 1932*

• Editorial: The Breaking Up of the I.L.P.
• A Literary Man on Labour Leaders
• A Fabian on Marx
• SPGB Meetings
• The Intellectuals and Marx
• Notes by the Way: Circumstances Alter Cases. A Communist Slogan for England Only.
• Letter: Socialist Action in Parliament, Etc.
• Letter: Marx and Dictatorship
• Party News: A New Pamphlet in Preparation
• Do You Like Coffee?
• The Truth About the Co-operative
• Movement
• Book Review: “Darkness at Noon”
• The Time For Action: A Letter to a Young Socialist
• The Campaign-Against Prohibition in the U.S.A.

 

No 338 October 1932*

• The Flimsy Bond of Nationalism
• Editorial: The Boll Weevil Lets Us Down
• Editorial: Lord Wolmer and Socialism
• The Coming Election in the U.S.A.
• Australian Labour Leaders
• Notes by the Way
• Matters underground
• A Little Talk about our Innards
• Confusion in British Columbia
• Wages in Germany
• Mr. Middleton Murry Protests
• Answers to Correspondents
• Correction: “The Truth about the Co-operative Movement”
• [Party News]

 

No. 339 November 1932*

• The Labour Party Conference
• Editorial: The Steam and the Safety Valve. Limits of Unemployed Demonstrations
• A Word to the Unemployed
• Snowden’s Goodbye
• Capital
• York and Ottawa
• The Dispute in the Textile Trades</a.
• Notes by the Way
• Notes by the Way: One for the Currency Cranks
• Scraps from the Press
• A Pamphlet which Misses its Mark
• Socialists and “Doing Nothing”
• Answers to Correspondents
• A Letter from Mr. Walton Newbold
• The Communist Party Shirks Debate
• An Englishman’s Home !
• Pioneers, Oh Pioneers!

 

No. 340 December 1932*

• The Coming New Prosperity in America
• Editorial. Shorter Hours No Cure for Unemployment
• Editorial. Mussolini: The Reality behind the Shadow
• Notes by the Way
• Railway Rationalization and Profits
• “Common Ownership”: Ourselves v. The Labour Party
• Roosevelt and the American Workers
• Machinery and Socialism
• Producing and Paying
• Will Politics Do Good?
• A “Marxist” with a Heart Attack
• The Scottish Season
• Demands which Have Not Effective Backing
• Socialism and Industrial Unionism
• A Mad World
• Death Takes Away Another Old Comrade
• Newcastle-on-Tyne and Gateshead

 

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1933

 

No 341 January 1933*

• • The Housing Problem. The Socialist View
  • Editorial: The Dependence of
 Government on Parliament
  • Notes By The Way: The Depression not Due to Gold Shortage
  • The Christian Church & Feudalism
  • Foreign Debt and the Workers
  • Short Story: A 1932 Memory
  • Debates: the S.P.G.B. versus The Tory Party
  • Debates: The S.P.G.B. versus the I.L.P.
  • Book Review: The Reorganisation of the State

   

   

  No. 342 February 1933

  • Notes by the Way: “Self Made” Men: An American Myth Exploded
  • The Reward of Invention
  • Marx and the Labour Party
  • Technocracy: Old Fallacies in a New Disguise
  • Marxism and Russia
  • How to Make Socialists: Lenin’s View

   

  No. 343 March 1933

  • A Challenge to the Socialist Party of America
  • Karl Marx — An Appreciation
  • Activities at Home and Abroad

   

  No. 344 April 1933*

  • The Meaning of Class Consciousness
  • The Rise of Hitler: A Warning to the Workers
  • Notes on Industry
  • Here and There
  • The Passing of Eduard Bernstein
  • The German Communist Party
  • The Use of Trade Unions and 
Strikes
  • Hard Times in the Peerage
  • The Socialist Forum: Socialism and Toleration
  • The Socialist Forum: Communism and Socialism
  • Socialist Forum: Russia’s Bondholders
  • Book Review: ‘The Decline and Fall of The Labour Party’
  • How to get to Head Office

   

  No. 345 May 1933*

  • Russia: the land tht did not abolish unemployment
  • Socialism and Working Class Unity
  • America and Haiti
  • A May Day Message
  • Socialism and Charity
  • The Douglas Scheme pt.1
  • What Stalin Forgot To Mention
  • War and the Workers
  • Socialism Inevitable
  • Crime: Its Cause and Cure
  • Debate.S.P.G.B. versus The Communist Party
  • The Meaning of Exploitation
  • What would the S.P.G.B. Do If ….?
  • Our Annual Conference

   

  No. 346 June 1933

  • Without Comment
  • The Douglas Scheme pt.2
  • Hot Heads and Hitlerism: Some Observations on Unity

   

  No. 347 July 1933

  • Editorial: Newspapers and Politics
  • Lloyd George Has a Brain Wave
  • Debate: S.P.G.B. versus The Communist Party
  • The Douglas Scheme pt.3
  • On understanding Marx

   

  No. 348 August 1933

  • Editorial: The Friends of the Russian Government
  • Marxism a Virile “Ghost” (Part 1)
  • Mr. Lansbury’s Solicitude for the Capitalists
  • Letter: Socialists and Membership of the Labour Party
  • Provincial Propaganda Tour

   

  No. 349 September 1933

  • Let Brotherly Love and Tithes Continue
  • Marxism a Virile “Ghost” (Continued)
  • The I.L.P. and Ourselves
  • “Middle Class” Wage-Slaves
  • Unemployed Workers on the Continent
  • Do Social Reforms Kill Socialism?
  • Death of Two Comrades

   

  No. 350 October 1933*

  • The Shorter Working Week in Australia: What it means to the workers
  • Editorial: Are We Progressing?
  • Marxism a Virile “Ghost” (Conclusion)
  • Words and Men—Part 1
  • Pamphlet Review
  • Facts for propagandists
  • Some Questions on Economics
  • A Reader Discovers a Mare’s Nest
  • Correspondence: Wages and Prices
  • Answer to a Correspondent: Hardships under Socialism
  • Correction: The Origin of Unemployment Insurance
  • This month’s quotation: F. Engels

   

  No. 351 November 1933

  • Words and Men—Part 2
  • Who Dictates to the Dictators?
  • Parliament and the Constitution

   

  No. 352 December 1933*

  • “We are all Socialists Now”
  • Editorial: Hitler and Marx
  • Notes by the Way
  • The Hoary Illusions of Youth
  • Words and Men—Part 3
  • Northern Ireland “Socialist”
Party
  • Book Reviews: ‘Karl Marx’, & ‘Lenin’
  • Banks and Credit
  • Answers to correspondents
  • Letters: Socialism and Red Shirts
  • Letter: Political and Social Reforms
  • Letter: The dirty work under socialism
  • Death of Comrade F. Cudlip
  • This Month’s Quotation: J. F. Bray

   

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  1934

   

  No. 353 January 1934

  • Words and Men—Part 4
  • Meeting of Party Speakers
  • Party News: Debate with a “Douglas Credit Association” (New Zealand)
  • Bolshevism: Past and Present

   

  No. 354 February 1934

  • Words and Men—Part 5
  • Death of Another Comrade
  • The Uselessness of ‘Practical Politics’
  • This Money Business
  • “Attack”
  • Marxism and the Labour Party: Dr. Eismann Replies

   

  No. 355 March 1934

  • Editorial: Woe to The Vanquished
  • The Problem of the Small Shopkeeper
  • Austrian Workers’ Tragic Heroism

   

  No. 356 April 1934*

  • The Labour Party and the London County Council
  • Editorial: A Few Words on Fascism
  • William Morris 1834-1896
  • The Mirage in Spain
  • The Materialist Conception of History (Engels letter)
  • American Reformists in Difficulties
  • Dr. Eismann’s Last Word
  • Democratic control
  • Welcome to a New Socialist Journal
  • Book Review: ‘Hyde Park Orator’
  • “The Plebs Atlas”
  • Waiing for Something to Turn Up

   

  No. 357 May 1934

  • Forty Wasted Years: Three Labour Leaders Look Back
  • Our Message for May Day and Every Day
  • Obituary: Charlie Barnes
  • The Situation in Italy – Is Fascism Cracking?
  • Too Old at Twenty-Nine

   

  No. 358 June 1934*

  • Marx: According to Humpty-Dumpty
  • The disintegration of the I.L.P.
  • Roosevelt’s “New Deal”
  • Canada’s White Hope—the C.C.F.
  • The Purpose of Socialist Organisation
  • Snapshots
  • Socialism, the King and the House of Lords
  • Answers to Correspondents

   

  No. 359 July 1934*

  • The Reaction in Europe and the S.P.G.B.
  • Editorial: Reason or Violence
  • State Banking in Australia
  • The Labour Theory of Value Before Karl Marx
  • An Engineer in Blunderland
  • Book Review: Another “Life” of Marx
  • This Month’s Front Page Quotation

   

  No. 360 August 1934*

  • Editorial: The German Slaughterhouse
  • SPGB Open Air Meetings
  • The Church and Slums
  • Letter: This “Age of Plenty”
  • Letter: “The Great God Waste”
  • Suicidal Glory
  • Dangers of Leadership
  • William Morris Quotations
  • More About Roosevelt’s “New Deal”
  • Letters: Fascists and Communists
  • Book Review: ‘Preparing for Power’
  • Party News

   

  No. 361 September 1934

  • Editorial: No More War?
  • Human Nature?
  • Some Observations on Production and Productivity
  • Changing Russia

   

  No. 362 October 1934

  • Editorial: Trade Unionists in Conclave
  • Stepping Stones
  • Forgotten Objections to Socialism
  • Book Review: Marx’s Letters to Kugelmann

   

  No. 363 November 1934

  • Editorial: 1904 -1934 and Progressing
  • Letter: The S.L.P. and the Conduct of Meetings.
  • What They Were Fighting For
  • Woe to the Victors
  • Poor Little —
  • The Match that did not bring the Explosion

   

  No. 364 December 1934

  • Bradlaugh’s Slanders on Marx
  • The Reward of Genius
  • Russian “Gold Rush.”
  • Attacks on Religion
  • Are You a Slave?
  • The Chief Task of our Times
  • Debate: Labour Party and S.P.G.B.

   

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  1935

   

  No. 365 January 1935

  • Editorial: Reflections for the New Year
  • The Sedition Act
  • Book Review: How Christians Awoke to the Slaughter

   

  No. 366 February 1935

  • Editorial: Flaming Folly in the Saar
  • Marx on Force
  • The Coming Struggle in India

   

  No. 367 March 1935*

  • The Peace Ballot and the League of Nations
  • Editorial: A Monopolist Scheme for Control
  • Capitalism and Speculation
  • War ! Aldous Huxley Psychoanalysed
  • Lecture notes: The French Revolution
  • Lecture notes: The Paris Commune
  • Christ as a Capitalist
  • Letters: A Letter from a Former Communist
  • Marx and the “Blackcoats”
  • Notes by the Way

   

  No. 368 April 1935

  • Editorial: Mussolini’s “Corporative State” Jest
  • Politics and Party Funds
  • The Socialist Party of Australia: A Splendid Election Fight
  • A Book for Students of Currency Problems
  • Debate with Fascist pt.1

   

  No. 369 May 1935

  • Editorial: Our Annual Conference
  • Hauling Down the Colours in Russia
  • Debate with Fascist pt.2

   

  No. 370 June 1935

  • Editorial: Peace—in Principle
  • Straws: A Rotten Case
  • Women’s Freedom
  • Should the Workers Buy up Capitalism
  • Dr. Edwin Cannan

   

  No. 371 July 1935

  • This “Honours” Business
  • Editorial: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
  • The Future of Palestine (1)
  • Straws: In Oil
  • Party News: New Premises
  • Enthusiasm in Sheffield

   

  No. 372 August 1935*

  • Pawns in Abyssinia
  • Editorial: Labour Party Dissensions
  • Major Douglas in Alberta
  • The Future of Palestine (2)
  • Notes by the Way
  • Disarmement and the Working Class
  • Socialism and the Co-Operative Movement
  • Twenty-one years ago
  • The drought peril
  • Book Review: ‘How to Make a Revolution’
  • Answer to Correspondents
  • The S.P.G.B. and the Bolshevik Seizure of Power in 1917
  • Three Hundred Pounds
  • This month’s quotation

   

  No. 373 September 1935

  • The Jews and Racial Purity
  • Editorial: The Class Struggle
  • The Present Condition of Italy
  • Straws: Drifting Whither?
  • Obituary: The Passing of Another Old Member
  • The Green Line Strike

   

  No. 374 October 1935

  • Editorial: Let the Capitalists Fight their Own Wars
  • The Greater War

   

  No. 375 November 1935

  • Editorial: Tenth Betrayal of the Working Class 1904-1935
  • The Labour Party Conference
  • Party News: Educational Visits
  • Where Mussolini Learned Brutality
  • General Election, November, 1935
  • Party News: Educational Visits
  • Result of the Election
  • Book Review: Labour’s Way to Disaster

   

  No. 376 December 1935*

  • Editorial: Who is the Enemy?
  • An Invitation to Lord Beaverbrook
  • This Month’s Quotation: Lord Lytton
  • Justice for the Miners
  • The Vanoculation of “Vanoc II”
  • Election Brevities
  • Marx on Piecework
  • To Sympathisers
  • The Press and the Election
  • Sailors Don’t Matter
  • Election Lessons for Socialists
  • Propaganda Paragraphs
  • Henderson the Peacemaker
  • Letters: A Mistaken Notion
  • Mine Accidents and Compensation: A Correction

   

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  1936

   

  No. 377 January 1936

  • A Letter from Russia
  • Book Review: Engels on Housing
  • Book Review: ‘Labour’s Way to Use the Land’
  • Can the Means Test be Abolished?

   

  No. 378 February 1936

  • Editorial: Quins, Quads and Poverty
  • Pamphlet Review: The British Labour Movement
  • Book Review: A Chapter on Dialectical Materialism
  • Bolshevism and the Third International

   

  No. 379 March 1936

  • Editorial: “Socialism” Everywhere
  • Book Review: A Chapter on Dialectical Materialism – Part 2
  • Book Review: “Labour’s Way with the Commonwealth.”
  • Book Review: ‘Frederick Engels – A Biography’

   

  No. 380 April 1936*

  • Editorial: No Class-Struggle Here
  • Morrison’s Child
  • Letter: Socialists and the Labour Party
  • Letter: The Policy of the Half-Loaf is Unworkable
  • The United Front
  • The War Situation: From the Rhine to Abyssinia
  • Notes By The Way: “The Daily Express” Star Performer
  • Communists!
  • Party News: SPGB Notices
  • Book Review: Soviet Capitalism
  • The “Haves” and “Have-Nots”
  • The King’s Question Answered

   

  No. 381 May 1936

  • The Partnership of Marx and Engels
  • May Day Musings: The Tragedy of Demonstrations
  • Obituary: Death of Miss Lechmere
  • No Banks Under Socialism

   

  No. 382 June 1936*

  • Editorial: Why the Budget does not Matter
  • Notes by the Way: Workers, Beware! All Your Property is at Stake!
  • SPGB Outdoor Propaganda Meetings
  • A Trouble-Saver for Communists
  • Answers to Correspondents
  • Book Review: Marxism — The Philosophy of Action
  • Here and There: Harry Pollitt
  • Book review: “The Distribution of National Capital”
  • Book Review: Letters from Prison
  • The United Front in France

   

  No. 383 July 1936*

  • Does the navy safeguard our daily bread?
  • Editorial: Do Budget Leakages Matter?
  • The Menace of Aerial Warfare (1)
  • Here and there
  • Notes by the Way
  • Spotights on capitalism
  • Letters to the Editors: Why Not Join the Labour Party?
  • The voice of the provinces
  • New premises fund

   

  No. 384 August 1936*

  • Socialists Do Stand for Equality
  • Editorial: All Aboard for ‘Progress’
  • Does Genius Come from Unhappiness?
  • The Menace of Aerial Warfare (2)
  • Book Review: Excursions of “Vanoc II”
  • Socialists and Pacts with Capitalist Parties
  • Letter: Socialists and War
  • Answer to Correspondent
  • The voice of the provinces
  • Party News: Week-End School
  • This Month’s Quotation

   

  No. 385 September 1936

  • The Civil War in Spain
  • Editorial: The Truth About the Popular Front
  • The Mining Disaster
  • The Lesson of the Russian Trial
  • The Menace of Aerial Warfare (3)

   

  No. 386 October 1936

  • Lady Eden’s Appeal, and Ours
  • The Russian “Terrorist” Trial

   

  No. 387 November 1936

  • The S.P.G.B. and Trotsky
  • Socialists and the Crown
  • Poem: “A World to Win”
  • Capitalism as Seen from the Air
  • What to Do About Fascism

   

  No. 388 December 1936*

  • The Coming Triumph of Socialism
  • Editorial: Atrocities in Spain
  • Here and there
  • Fattening Up the Lambs for the Slaughter
  • An Ancient Russian Custom
  • Book Review: ‘I Took off My Tie’
  • Book Review: Marx on Trade Unions
  • Letter: The Workers and the Empire
  • Letter: The S.P.G.B. and Fascism
  • Letter: Dictatorship and Parliament
  • Letter: A Socialist Policy for Local Government Elections
  • Letters: Classless Society
  • Answers to correspondents
  • Glasgow
  • New Premises Fund
  • This month’s quotation

   

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  No 389 January 1937

  • Leaders and the Led by Rosa Luxemburg
  • Puppet Kings and Labour Prudes
  • What Newspapers Did Not Tel
  • Book Review: ‘The Correspondence of Marx and Engels’
  • The New Russian Constitution

   

  No. 390 February 1937*

  • Editorial: The Popular Front: A False Issue
  • The Beginning and Ending of the Wages System
  • They Hide the Truth
  • Letter: Is Socialism Possible?
  • Some Lessons from Spain
  • What is Patriotism?
  • Party News: Our Parliamentary Fund
  • Here and There: Colonel Blimps
  • Is It War?
  • The Labour Government in New Zealand—No Change
  • A Question for Members of the Labour Party

   

  No. 391 March 1937

  • The Socialist Party versus The Labour Party
  • Party News: The Freedom of the Press!
  • The Greatest City in the Capitalist World
  • What is Wrong with Russia? The Mystery of the Trials

   

  No. 392 April 1937*

  • Is Democracy Worth While?
  • Is Another Slump on te Way?
  • Marx’s Address for the International, 1864
  • For Students of Socialism
  • Hamilton. Offer of a Free Copy of “The Socialist Standard”
  • The Passing of Comrade F. Maby
  • The Sit-down Strikes in America
  • Notes by the Way
  • Prospets in the Professions
  • This Prosperity !
  • It Stands
  • This month’s quotation
  • Lewisham branch

   

  No. 393 May 1937

  • May Day, 1937–A Warning
  • Marx’s Address for the International, 1864
  • Death Of An American Comrade
  • Letters: Two Readers Write about the Russian Trials
  • The SPGB and Spain

   

  No. 394 June 1937

  • The Reason for the Russian Trial
  • The Passing of Snowden
  • Life in Soviet Russia

   

  No. 395 July 1937*

  • Roads To Socialism
  • Editorial: Big or Little Unions?
  • Here and there
  • Some thoughts on Empire
  • The ’Bus Strike—and After by a ‘Busman
  • A Communist Leader and the Right to Strike
  • The Labour Theory of Value
  • The Tragedy of Middle Age
  • Which Way Russia?
  • Highland fling
  • How Now, Mr. Pritt?
  • People in Glasshouses
  • Death Of An Australian Comrade

   

  No. 396 August 1937*

  • What is Behind the Government’s Spanish Policy?
  • Editorial: No Escape from Holy Deadlock
  • Marxism and Dictatorship
  • Here and There
  • The Specialist Disease
  • G. B. Shaw as a Guide to Socialism
  • The Labour Theory of Value (2)
  • Answers to Correspondents
  • As in England, so in Australia
  • Pamphlet Review: Facts for Socialists
  • No debate by the Economic League
  • Party News: Parliamentary Activity
  • Circular to all members
  • This Month’s Quotation: George Bernard Shaw

   

  No. 397 September 1937

  • Party News: East Ham, North
  • Divide and Rule in Palestine
  • Why there is Not Enough to go Round
  • Book Review: ‘From Lenin to Stalin’
  • More Light on the Russian Confessions

   

  No. 398 October 1937

  • Shanghai: A New Gang “Muscling In”
  • Notes by the Way: The Basque Children
  • Letters to the Editors: Socialists and the State

   

  No. 399 November 1937*

  • Editorial: The Cost of Living Farce
  • Party News: Our Parliamentary Fund
  • The Wealthy Duchess and the Factory Girls
  • Labour Party and T.U.C. in Conference
  • Notes by the Way: The Low-down on Dictators
  • Book Review: “The Papacy and Fascism”
  • Are the Japanese ‘Barbarians’?
  • The Socialist Party and economic organisation

   

  No. 400 December 1937

  • Editorial: The Popular Front and the Struggle Against Fascism
  • “Bedaux” and the Workers
  • Notes by the Way: “Capitalists” at the Rubbish Heap
  • Part News: Bazaar and Social
  • History Embarrasses the Communist Party
  • A prophet who faded out
  • Some aspects of Russia

   

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  1938

   

  No. 401 January 1938

  • To a New Reader
  • A Strike is Fun to Some People
  • Party News: The Bazaar

   

  No. 402 February 1938

  • Editorial: Collapse of the Popular Front in France
  • A General Election in 1938?
  • Obituary: Arthur Evans

   

  No. 403 March 1938

  • Book Reviews: Reaction in Germany and Spain
  • Editorial: The Communists and the I.L.P. Change Places
  • Short Story: ‘Ten Forty-Five’

   

  No. 404 April 1938*

  • Editorial: Another Russian Sacrificial Feast
  • Parliamentary Fund
  • Letter: Land Values and Socialism
  • Letters: Answers to Correspondents
  • The German Drive Through Central Europe
  • Letter: Further Criticism of the
  • Object of the S.P.G.B.
  • Letters: Socialism and Equality
  • Here and There
  • Will There Be Another War?
  • This Month’s Quotation: Oscar Wilde
  • An Open Letter to the Electors of East Ham North
  • At the Graveside of Karl Marx
  • Trotsky-Stalin Feud: An American View

   

  No. 405 May 1938*

  • What May-Day Means to Us
  • Editorial: For and Against the Popular Front
  • Germany’s First Round
  • Notes by the Way
  • Death of Moses Baritz
  • Book Review: The Communists Re-write Working Class History
  • Italy in Abyssinia and Britain in Arabia
  • A Hundred Years Since the Charter
  • The Labour Theory of Value

   

  No. 406 June 1938

  • Party News: Our Parliamentary Campaign
  • Editorial: Still Another Mining Tragedy
  • Our May-Day Meetings
  • Obituary: George Bellingham

   

  No. 407 July 1938*

  • Our practical policy
  • Editorial: Beating the War Drums
  • Editorial: The Popular Front Splits the French Labour Party
  • Before Hitler
  • Who are the malingerers?
  • Notes by the Way
  • Book review: A Pill For The Public
  • Answers to Correspondents: A reader’s criticism of the socialist attitude to Russia
  • Answers to Correspondents: A Socialist Minority in Parliament
  • Answers to Correspondents: Suppose Hitler and Mussolini attack Great Britain
  • Answers to Correspondents: Would arms be useful to the workers?
  • Answers to Correspondents: Why not a weekly “Socialist Standard”?
  • How you can help to get the Socialist Standard known
  • THis month’s quotation

   

  No. 408 August 1938*

  • The Busmen’s Problem: New Unions or old
  • Editorial: Socialists and A.R.P.
  • Communist Welcome to King and Queen
  • “New” Ideas With Whiskers On Them
  • A Thought for the Times
  • Stepfather Stalin
  • Notes of the month
  • The City
  • John Strachey’s What Are We to Do?

   

  No. 409 September 1938*

  • The Real Issue in Czechoslovakia
  • Editorial: Should Aliens Be Allowed In?
  • Should We Fight for Democracy?
  • Notes by the Way
  • Notes of the Month&lt
  • Introduction to Socialism
  • Contact
  • Book Review: Sea Dogs
  • Why I Joined the S.P.G.B.
  • A Ghost of the Past
  • This month’s quotation (Oscar Wilde)

   

  No. 410 October 1938*

  • Czechoslovakia: The Choice Before Us
  • Editorial: Why Collective Security Will Not Work
  • Germany stages a come-back
  • Why Jew-Bating?
  • Notes by the Way
  • Here and there
  • Book Review: ‘The Battle For Peace’
  • Party News: Rally in Hyde Park
  • This month’s quotation

   

  No. 411 November 1938

  • Editorial: What of the Future?
  • Obituary: Death of Comrade A. Guiver
  • Hitler the “Socialist”

   

  No. 412 December 1938

  • Assisting Workers Abroad
  • Capitalist Hypocrisy
  • Letters: The Russian Workers under the Czar and under the Bolshevists
  • Is Britain Going Fascist ?

   

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  1939

   

  No. 413 January 1939*

  • Kautsky’s Work for Socialism
  • Editorial: Principles or Expediency
  • Marxism and United Fronts
  • Notes by the Way
  • Umbrella statesmen
  • An American looks at Capitalism and the British Labour Party
  • The progress of Russia
  • Supporting a Capitalist War for Freedom
  • Answer to correspondent
  • This Month’s Quotation: Karl Kautsky
  • Party news:To You . . Our Thanks!

   

  No. 414 February 1939*

  • Editorial: Cripps and the Labour Party
  • This Month’s Quotation: August Bebel
  • Letter: Another Question about War for Czechoslovakia
  • Letter: Problems of Socialist
  • Administration
  • Notes By The Way: Compulsory Confessions in Russian Jails
  • The Land and the Labourer
  • Here and There: When Mussolini Would Not Fight
  • Book Review: ‘Warning from the West Indies’
  • Book Review: ‘The Communist International’

   

  No. 415 March 1939*

  • Has Christianity a Solution for Social Problems?
  • What Do You Want Fom Life?
  • Christianity’s Diminishing Returns
  • Editorial: The Future of Sir Stafford Cripps
  • Peaceful manifestations
  • This Month’s Quotation: James Connolly
  • Notes by the Way: Mussolini Fights Bolshevism
  • Book Review: The Real Russia
  • Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
  • Learn about Leaders, Old and New

   

  No. 416 April 1939*

  • The Last Hour in Madrid
  • Editorial: The Beginning and End of Czechoslovakia
  • Is Democracy Foundering?
  • Notes by the Way
  • Don’t Die for Capitalism- Live for Socialism!
  • Working Class
  • A Burning Question
  • Blessings of British Imperialism
  • THe Legend of Litter
  • Answers to Correspondents
  • Book Review: “Science and You” by J.B.S. Haldane
  • The Party’s position: A statement in French
  • Parliamentary activity
  • This Month’s Quotation: Antonia Labriola

   

  No. 417 May 1939*

  • Editorial: May-Day and the War Clouds
  • Clashing Interests in the Mediterranean
  • Historical Background of Hitlerism
  • This Month’s Quotation: Heinrich Heine
  • National Service or International Socialism
  • May-Day in Bedlam
  • Party News: Parliamentary Activity
  • Why the Workers are Not Anti-Patriotic
  • Answers to Correpondents
  • Letters: The Miserable Condition of Domestic Workers
  • The Wages of Agricultural Workers

   

  No. 418 June 1939*

  • Forward We Must Go
  • Editorial: Conscription—1916 Over Again
  • The Death Dance of Danzig
  • Here and There
  • Fascism and Democracy
  • Illusion
  • The Wages of Agricultural Workers
  • Mr. Beverley Baxter’s Error
  • Communists and the Pope
  • Death of Comrade Bremner
  • Advertising
  • A reminder
  • This Month’s Quotation: George Sand

   

  No. 419 July 1939*

  • Why the French Popular Front Failed
  • Editorial: The Armament Illusion
  • Whither Britain?
  • Notes by the Way
  • Where They Stand on Conscription
  • Letters: Is Socialism Only a Dream?
  • Answers to Correspondents: Is Stalin a Dictator?
  • Answers to Correspondents: Can the Workers be Won Over by Socialism?
  • Answers to correspondents: Should the S.P.G.B. Join the Labour Party?
  • Manchester Workers Crowd to Party Meetings
  • The death penalty in Soviet Russia
  • This Month’s Quotation: Joseph Dietzgen

   

  No. 420 August 1939*

  • A Scottish Red Herring
  • Editorial: Can Small Nations Live?
  • National Hatred: A Capitalist Weapon
  • The Trump Card of Trotsky
  • Workers’ Blood and Capitalist Profit
  • Why Socialism?
  • Letter: Should we Merge with the I.L.P.?
  • This Month’s Quotation: Angelica Balabanoff

   

  No. 421 September 1939*

  • Editorial: Birds of a Feather: The Russo-German Bombshell
  • This Month’s Quotation: Jan Bloch
  • Obituary: Death of Comrade E. Wade
  • Communists want Conscription
  • While Rome Burns
  • Forgings from the Furnace
  • The Only Way
  • More Blessings of British Imperialism
  • What is the true Position?
  • Letter: Is the S.P.G.B. Afraid to Criticise Trade Unionism?
  • The Mongol or the Hun
  • Who Divides the Workers?
  • Cases from the courts
  • Problems of Socialist Administration
  • Pseudo-Democracy and Dictatorship

   

  No. 422 October 1939*

  • This Month’s Quotation: W. J. Perry
  • Socialism Has Not Abandoned its Aims
  • The Socialist Party of Great Britain and the War
  • Germany, the Danube and Rumania
  • The Trick
  • What the Parties Say about the War
  • Notes by the Way
  • What They Said and Say
  • Party News: Attention!
  • Announcement from the Central Organiser
  • The Weight of the Chain
  • Forgings from the Furnace (continued)
  • The Partition of Ireland
  • Capitalist Opposition to Socialism
  • Socialism and the Well-paid Managers of Industry

   

  No. 423 November 1939*

  • Editorial: The Definition of War Aims
  • The Strutting Turkey and the Dancing Bear
  • Moscow Turns a New Somersault and Mr. Pollitt Holds the Baby
  • This Month’s Quotation: Socialist
  • Changing Russia
  • The Prospect for Socialism – What Will Happen After the War?
  • Finland, the Balts and the Baltic
  • Notes by the Way
  • Here and There
  • Interest in Finland
  • Our Sixpenny Stunt

   

  No. 424 December 1939*

  • Editorial: Wages in War-Time
  • What Are We Waiting For?
  • This Month’s Quotation: Frederick Engels
  • The Russian Invasion of Finland
  • Stalin at the Gates of India
  • Notes by the Way: An Imaginary Incident After the War
  • Answers to Correspondents
  • Here and There: New Words for the Old
  • Party News: Successful Rally at Conway Hall
  • Book Review: Bolshevism by Rudolf Sprenger

   

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