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Zeitgeist and ‘Marxism’

Zambia: Corruption and the Origin of a Local Private Capitalist Class

Yugoslavia Today: “Socialist Federal Republic”

Your wages are a problem

Your Share in the Wonders of the Age

Your help is urgently needed

Young, homeless, hopeless

Young Delinquents

You have it all wrong!

Yes, Greta, change is necessary but radical change

Ye Daughters of Israel Weep

Wrong Note

Wring their necks

Wrights and Wrongs

World War One – lest we forget

World View:Ghana, Indonesia, Uganda

World View:*There’s no such thing as an ethical foreign policy* Chechen war (Part II)

World View:*Flying, spying and a new Cold War *Kyoto Caput

World View:* The Coming Balkan Conflict?* Inside the sports industry

World View: U.N. Report – No challenge to capitalism

World View: Teetering on the brink

World View: Strange values, denials and a few truths

World View: Sharia in Nigeria: a class analysis

World View: Seychelles: the strategic stakes

World View: Religion, racism and class

World View: Learning the real lesson of Auschwitz

World View: Hungry for Change

World View: Flying, spying and a new Cold War. Kyoto Caput

World View: Courting trouble

World View: China – fighting back

World View: *USA:To Whom It May Concern*Africa: Who gains from female circumcision?

World View: *Capitalist priorities*Educating the workers?

World view: * Venezuela:Rooting out corruption?* Population: Feeding the Six Billionth

World View: * Going for Oil * Contradictions in Euroland

World View: ‘Zambia’s tribalist politics’ and ‘Election fever grips Zimbabwe’

World View: ‘USA: The Fallacy of the Free Market’ and ‘Middle East: Thirsting for Conflict’

World View: ‘The sinking of the Kursk’ and ‘The African tourism trade’

World View: ‘Bombing for Peace – the Real Crisis in NATO’, ‘Profit or the Environment?’

World Poverty and Birth Control: Malthus Was Wrong

World Mineral Resources: Enough to Last

World Hunger: Why the FAO fails

World hunger: why Harry Chapin failed

World hunger: A global problem

World Food Resources . . . the Myth of Shortage

World at Work: Slaughter of South American Indians for Oil

Working-class women

Working-Class Wives

Working-Class Politics and the “Labour Daily”

Working-Class Politics and the “Labour Daily.”

Working-Class Politics

Working-class “Progress” in Lancashire

Working Without Jobs

Working together

Working to live or living to work?

Working till we drop

Working Harder for the Capitalist

Working class education. The failure of the Labour Colleges

Working Class “Education”: Plebs Leaguer Puts Marx Right

Working class — who isn’t?

Working Class

Workers versus the “Vanguard”

Workers dig garbage in Philippines

Workers — On May Day the Fight is Yours

Work, Welfare and Wages

Work for Socialism (A Thought for the New Year)

Words that bear repeating

Word Magic or Double Talk

Wool-pulling

Wood for the Trees: Through a Glass Darkly

Wood for the Trees: Nostalgia

Wood for the Trees: Constructing Division

Women, work and wages

Woe to the Vanguished !

With god on their side

Winstanley, Marx and Henry George

Willie Gallacher’s Political Indigestion

William Morris: How we live and how we might live

Will information goods undermine capitalism?

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December 2025 Socialist Standard No. 1456

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