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May 11, 2020
From the Seven Days for Socialism! International Supplement (August 1967) At the turn of the century the ruling class in Ireland were united in the classical sense in which capitalists are united throughout the world: North and South of the country Catholic and Protestant capitalists found unanimity in their desire to promote and maintain that …
May 5, 2020
Predictably, as 1970 ended, the communications media in N. Ireland, took us over the ground we had travelled in 1970. It was a sad year for the working class and as the T.V. cameras made us relive the events so recently passed we were reminded of the graveyard, the prison cell and, generally, the hate-scene …
April 27, 2020
One of the problems confronting the Socialist movement in its efforts to bring an understanding of Socialism to the working class is the number of organisations that spread confusion about the meaning of Socialism. In Northern Ireland, for example, apart from the N.I. Labour Party, whose particular brand of “socialism” is the difference between …
Read more “Pamphlet Review: The People’s Democracy: Old nonsense from a new quarter”
Recently the Executive Committee of the World Socialist Party of Ireland decided to launch an advertising campaign on behalf of the Socialist Standard. As we are restricted by finances, we decided to use small advertisements on a wide scale rather than larger advertisements in a few newspapers. In keeping with this decision the General Secretary …
Read more “Party News: The “Irish Press” and the “Socialist Standard””
April 24, 2020
2020s ⮞ ⮜ Full Index ⮜ 2000s 2010 ⮞ 2011 ⮞ 2012 ⮞ 2013 ⮞ 2014 ⮞ 2015 ⮞ 2016 ⮞ 2017 ⮞ 2018 ⮞ 2019 ⮞ 2010 No. 1265 January 2010 Editorial: Capitalism and the New Decade 50 Years Ago: Labour’s Lost Chord Book Reviews: Letters Cartoon: The Ire of the Irate Itinerant Cartoon: …
April 23, 2020
Dear Editors I wish to thank the workers of Calverts Press for their letter in response to the criticism of their action in appending a disclaimer to my article (Hate and Its Causes – March S.S.). Let me make it clear that my opposition to their action was not based on the argument that the …
April 22, 2020
Dear Editors So, after 84 years of uncompromisingly putting the case for Socialism in war and peace, against enemies and betrayers, the Socialist Standard has finally been forced to succumb to the undemocratic arrogance of its current printers. Presumably, since your printers have not previously felt the need to dissociate themselves from any other …
One of the difficulties facing terrorist organisations is the fact that they leave their dead and their maimed on the spot to repel their supporters and anger and increase the resolve of those who oppose them. That is one essential difference between the act of dropping bombs from aeroplanes onto “enemy” cities and planting …
April 20, 2020
A few months ago a socialist speaker was debating with a conservative exponent of unfettered “free” enterprise the motion Capitalism or Socialism? As the socialist speaker spelled out the catalogue of social evils which are a permanent feature of life today — under capitalism — a member of the audience expressed vociferous agreement — to …
April 19, 2020
As the Ulster Defence Association urges you to civil war we urge you to think. For quite apart from the fact that the IRA and the UDA both display contempt for working-class lives and democratic consensus, there is a striking similarity in the basic political approach of each organisation. Both base their political assumptions on …