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For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the December 1974 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: December 1974 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Sir Keith Joseph’s on the feckless poor (famous speech where he warned of the moral degeneration of Britain ‘cos the D and E’s were having too many kids.
– Noise, Health and Capitalism
– Socialism Means Free Access
– Letters on Parliament and Dictators & the SPGB are bigots.
– ‘Celebrities’ tell us how they voted. (Including Kingsley Amis, Muriel Spark and John Osborne.)
– In Socialism: Who Will Do What?
– Whatever Happened to “Full Employment”?
– Film Review
– The reformism of the International Socialists
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the May 1930 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: May 1930 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Bombing the ‘natives’
– French Imperialism in Morocco
– Karl Marx on Christianity
– Socialism vs Nationalism
– A report of a debate with J. T. Murphy of the CPGB
– To New Readers
– Choose Your Job — And Get Rich
– Labour Party Leaders Make Unemployment
– A Commentary on the Communist Manifesto
– Tolstoy on Work
– Remember Belgium!
– Book Review on the British Labour Party
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the February 1969 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: February 1969 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Murdoch and Maxwell fight over the News of the World
– Barbara Castle’s In Place of Strife
– The Space Race
– Political Prisoners
– Nationalisation and the steel industry
– Abolish Exchange
– The Human Nature Myth
– Paul Cardan and the Meaning of Socialism
– Book Reviews on the Soviet Union’s Great Terror and Irish Civil War
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the December 1988 Socialist Standard is now online:
Content includes:
– On Third World debt
– Maximilien Rubel sticks the boot into the SPGB.
– Margaret Thatcher forever?
– World War Two evacuation
– Private and Public Myths
– The Alternative Queen’s Speech
– Rumpelstiltskin – a fairy story for adults
– 1992 and all that
– Book Reviews on Ecology and Socialism and Ken Smith’s Free is Cheaper
I’m sure there’s something for everyone.
Scroll down to the final paragraph of this 1915 piece from the Socialist Standard for another reference to racism and boxing in connection with Jack Johnson:
Link: Shrapnel Splinters (1915)
The Cliff/Gluckstein book is available online:
More mentions of Ensor in the Socialist Standard at the following link:
It includes a review of the Ensor book mentioned above.
With regards to the original request for books on ‘Socialism’ in Britain from 1890-1920, a contemporary account would be Max Beer’s A History of British Socialism. Both volumes are available on the Archive.org website:
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the August 1987 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: August 1987 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Interview and debate with Friends of the Earth’s Jonathon Porritt
– The Poll Tax
– One Green World
– Letter on the SPGB and class consciousness
– Capitalism and the Divorce Laws
– A Workers’ Guide to the Soap Operas
– The obsession about Ireland
– Growing up poor
– Book Review on Cuba
– Film Reviews of Prick Up Your Ears and Working Girls
I’m sure there’s something there for everyone.
A cross-post from SPOPEN.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the January 1969 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: January 1969 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Rosa Luxemburg and the Collapse of Capitalism
– Irish Civil Rights Movement and the Troubles
– The Computer, Karl Marx and the Battery Hens
– Student unrest
– Socialism, Atheism or Religion?
– Book Reviews on Paris ’68, Harold Wilson and French Marxism
Correspondence sent to that email address will be read and responded to. The WSPUS as an organisation is not currently active but there is active WSPUS members.
Hope that is of some help.
It may not be everyone’s cup of tea but I also like this song by Darren Hayman when he was in Hefner:
Good article by ‘Ivan’ on Remembrance Day that dates from 1973:
Sorry, but I hope this is a “work in progress” because as it currently stands the website’s an embarrassment. It’s arguably one of the worst websites I’ve seen in years. YEARS.
If anyone thinks I’m out of order for my comment, please take into account that I spent hundreds of hours keeping the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog updated whilst the Party website was down. I am incredibly frustrated by this.
