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1904

 

No. 01 September 1904*

• Editorial: To our Readers
• Physical Deterioration
• Party News: Notices
• Coventry Cycle Trade: Female Wage-Slaves Oust Males.
• Capitalist Morality and Cheap Labour
• The Stage of the Wage-Slave Market
• Bebel’s Answer to Jaurès on “Political Tactics”
• A Proud Distinction
• Radical Principles?
• The International Congress at Amsterdam. (1904)
• From Our Branches
• Party Notes
• The International Socialist Congress (1904)
• The Socialist Party of Great Britain (1904)

 

No. 02 October 1904*

• Editorial: The Futility of Reform
• Is There a Class War ? Mr. J. Keir-Hardie, M.P., Answers ” Yes-No ” and “No-Yes!”
• “Fire Out the Fools.”
• Two Points of View
• Party News: Party Notes
• Letters to the Editors: Correspondence
• Letters to the Editors: Answers To Correspondents
• Party News: Socialism and Labour Politics
• Party News: The Socialist Party of Great Britain. General Meeting
• A New York cable states
• Party News: SPGB Lecture List, October, 1904
• A Look Round
• Party News: From Our Branches
• The bogey of the taxes

 

No. 03 November 1904*

• Editorial
• A Forecast of the Coming Revolution: Interview with Paul Lafargue
• Women Workers in Japan
• Labour Parties
• The Commercialisation of Literature
• An Open Letter to Mr. George Lansbury
• Party News: From Our Branches
• Party Notes
• The S.D.F. and West Ham
• A Look Round
• [The situation in West Ham[
• Answers to Correspondents
• Quotes
• [“Immorality” in South Africa]
• Was this prophetic

 

No. 04 December 1904*

• The Competition of Women
• Editorial: Socialist Unity
• Socialism and individualism
• Karl Marx
• A Look Round
• The Great Public Schools of England
• Party News: Party Notes
• From Our Branches
• Socialism in Coventry
• Socialists and Liberals. Mr. Will. Thorne’s view
• [Increased destitution]
• [The first care of Italian Socialists]
• Correspondence
• Quotes

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1905

 

No. 05 January 1905*

• To the Socialist Working-Class
• A la classe ouvrière socialiste
• An die Sozialistische Arbeiterschaft
• Peace on Earth
• Correspondence (Amsterdam Congress 1904)
• The Social Problem and Its Solution: Part 1 By Jules Guesde
• The Prospects of the Workers’ Children
• A Look Round
• Smart!
• The Dignity of Labour, at Home and Abroad
• The Law-Loving Capitalist
• Support The Socialist Party
• A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
• Quotes

 

No. 06 February 1905*

• A Look Round
• Russia: Revolution and after
• Marx as Humorist
• Physical Deterioration and Education
• The Social Problem and Its Solution: Part 2 By Jules Guesde
• Answers To Correspondents
• A Plain Statement
• Correspondence
• A British Trust gets Bigger
• Liebknecht quote
• Party Notes
• Party News: From Our Branches

 

No. 07 March 1905*

• A Look Round
• The Political Organisation of the Working-Class
• Evolution and Revolution
• The Tactics of Confusion
• Making Work
• The Power to Generalise
• Correspondence: Is the Socialist Propagandist Necessary?
• Correspondence: Municipalism; Appeal from Russia
• Party News: From Our Branches
• Party Notes
• English Hypocrisy and the Russian Outrage
• Talks in the Train
• Trade disputes in 1904
• Press cuttings

 

No. 08 April 1905*

• Who Can Boss?
• The Cry of the Workless
• A Look Round
• Rural Poverty
• Socialists & Capitalist Hospitals
• The Freedom of Slavery
• Property and Crime
• To Young Speakers
• Watford Branch Report. Labour Misleaders and the Local Elections
• Our Re-Union
• The Commune In Paris
• Answers to Correspondents

 

No. 09 May 1905*

• Invention: A Capitalist Monopoly
• Our Conference
• Ishmaelites
• A Travesty of Trade Unionism
• Doubts and difficulties
• Illuminations
• Correspondence: Evolution by Revolution
• The Divine Right of Capital. By Richard Jeffries
• Party News: From Our Branches

 

No. 10 June 1905*

• How Liberals win Elections
• A Retrospect
• The Question of the Rates
• Revolutionary Reform
• Alien Humbug
• A Look Round
• Doubts and Difficulties
• A Short Story: What George Learnt
• Correspondence
• Books and Booklets. The Citizenship of Women (Kier Hardie)
• Party Notes
• From our Branches
• Quotes

 

No. 11 July 1905*

• Invasion or Starvation?
• Editorial: The Raunds and Leicester Marches
• The War and its Effects
• The Truth about Camborne
• Cuttings and comments
• Party Notes
• Evolution and Revolution
• Ethics and the class struggle
• Illuminations
• Books and booklets. Old Age Pensions
• West Ham
• “Verily, ’tis a great country.”
• Short Story: Overheard

 

No. 12 August 1905*

• The curse of national prestige
• Editorial: Year One of “The Socialist Standard
• Editorials
• Palliatives and Practical Politics: An Indictment of Reform
• Enrico Ferri on Socialist Tactics
• A Look Round
• Doubts and Difficulties
• Book Review: ‘The Labour Party’
• Correspondence
• Answers To Correspondents
• Party News: From Our Branches
• Party News: Notelets
• Important Announcement

 

No. 13 September 1905

• Editorial: A Challenge
• Editorial: Labour Triumphant?
• Party Notes:
• Remember Featherstone!
• Evolution and Revolution
• The Evolution of Society

 

No. 14 October 1905

• The Social Democratic Federation: Does it Deserve the Support of the Working Class?
• The Socialist Movement In Bulgaria

 

No. 15 November 1905

• Literary Curiosities. No. 2 – Tolstoy on Socialism
• Tolstoy ‘Impossibilist’
• Party News: From Our Branches
• Boring From Within
• Party News: Party Notes
• Party News: SPGB Lectures
• Socialism and Respectability

 

No. 16 December 1905

• The Clarion Vanner vs The Truth
• The Russian upheaval

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1906

 

No. 17 January 1906

• Dirty Political Work
• Party News: Wood Green Branch Report
• Socialism and Darwinism
• These be Your Gods, O Israel

 

No. 18 February 1906*

• The Extinction of Petty Enterprise. By Karl Kautsky
• The Parliamentary Manoeuvres
• A Tory candidate on Socialism
• The new “force” in politics
• Is the Materialist Conception of History sufficient?
• Another Quack Remedy
• The Pillory
• Election Items
• The Class Struggle (Engels quote)
• Party Notes
• Party news: Important Notice
• Notes of Interrogation
• Answers to correspondents. Quotes
• Literature Agency

 

No. 19 March 1906

• Labour at the polls. A Victory for Confusion
• A New Cure
• The Ethics of Revolution
• From Our Branches

 

No. 20 April 1906*

• The Evolution of Revolutionary Burns
• Bebel’s Incursion Into English Politics
• Bebel and the S.P.G.B.
• The Need For ‘Intellectuals’
• Matters parliamentary
• The Enfranchisement of Women
• Book Reviews: The Origin of Life, Women as Barmaids
• Our Second Annual Conference
• The valour of discretion
• What is Capital?
• More confusion
• Party News: Paddington Branch Report
• Books, pamphlets for sale

 

No. 21 May 1906

• The Extinction of Petty Enterprise. By Karl Kautsky (continued)
• Comment in ‘The Gaelic American’
• Party News: Second Annual Conference of the Socialist Party of Great Britain
• Farce or Tragedy?
• United Irish League

 

No. 22 June 1906

• The Extinction of Petty Enterprise. By Karl Kautsky (concluded)
• If They Knew!
• Party News: Tottenham Branch report
• Captains and Guides

 

No. 23 July 1906

• The MacDonald-Brunner combination
• Party News: SPGB Lecture List, July, 1906
• Party Notes: Party News
• The New Mrs. Caudle
• ‘Class-Consciousness’

 

No. 24 August 1906

• Editorial: The Second Milestone
• Party News: SPGB Lecture List, August, 1906
• Found Out !
• What is the function of the Capitalist?
• Party Notes
• A “Clarion” mare’s nest

 

No. 25 September 1906

• Editorial: Camping Out
• Editorial: The Trade Union Congress
• The General Federation of Trade Unions
• Answers To Correspondents
• SPGB Lecture List, September, 1906
• Revolution not reform
• Party News: Tottenham Branch Report
• The Burwell Experiment
• Another Pill For The Earthquake
• Why are we revolutionary?

 

No. 26 October 1906

• Have we libelled Mr. R. Bell, M.P.?
• “The Fraud of Socialism.”
• Municipal Elections
• At Random

 

No. 27 November 1906

• Propaganda in the Provinces: A Cycling Diary
• “Temporising and Reactionary”
• The Russian Revolution

 

No. 28 December 1906*

• Is Society an Organism?”
• Our First Municipal Fight
• Joy Unspeakable
• Trusts and Soap
• Municipal Election Notes
• A Look Round
• Hoist with his own petard
• Mr. Lloyd George on his mettle
• Doubts and Difficulties: Why We Oppose Other Parties
• The Clarion on its defence
• Imported Nonsense
• Answers to Correspondents
• Correspondence in brief
• Party News – Good Work in Manchester
• A Reunion

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1907

 

No. 29 January 1907*

• Riot and Revolution: Speech by Rosa Luxemburg on Trial for Inciting to Riot
• Editorial : 1907
• At Random
• A Look Round
• Short story: Gus has a shock
• The Real Roosevelt
• Correspondence
• From the Fighting Line
• Some Publications
• Quote (L. H. Morgan)
• A New Year’s Gathering

 

No. 30 February 1907

• For Christ’s Sake
• Those Aliens!
• The Late Dispute in Islington

 

No. 31 March 1907

• The lessons of the German elections
• The Brutality of the Bourgeoisie
• The Socialist Party and the Labour Party

 

No. 32 April 1907

• Party News: Our Annual Conference
• The Gospel According to St. Andrew
• Is the S.P.G.B. the Party of the Workers?

 

No. 33 May 1907

• Editorial: The Significance of May Day
• The Reward of Intellect
• The Premier Railway System. And Those Who Work It
• A Board of Trade return . . .
• Party News: Tottenham Branch Report
• The Century of Capitalism: What the Nineteenth Century Stood For

 

No. 34 June 1907

• Interesting Documents. No. 1.
• Bebel and Hervé: German Party Leader As A Jingo

 

No. 35 July 1907

• Editorial: The Curse of Work, The Right to Live
• An Open Letter to Robert Blatchford: Wanted — A Party.
• Mr. Barnes and the A.S.E.
• Party News: Party Notes
• The Roots of Social Change

 

No. 36 August 1907

• Editorial: Our Policy then and now
• The Proletariat (The Working Class). By Karl Kautsky
• Art, Labour and Socialism. By Wm. Morris
• Answers to Correspondents
• “The Menace of Socialism”

 

No. 37 September 1907

• The Sinn Fein Policy
• Editorial: Fly Paper Politics
• Art, Labour and Socialism. By Wm. Morris
• A Look Round

 

No. 38 October 1907

• Editorial: Middle-Class ‘Socialism’
• The Proletariat (The Working Class). By Karl Kautsky
• The Waste of Competition

 

No. 39 November 1907

• Palliatives and Politics
• The Proletariat (The Working Class). By Karl Kautsky
• S.P.G.B. Lecture List. May, 1907
• Labour Members on Child Slavery

 

No. 40 December 1907

• Editorial: Socialism and the Unemployed
• The Proletariat (The Working Class). By Karl Kautsky
• The International

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1908

 

No. 41 January 1908

• The Proletariat (The Working Class). By Karl Kautsky
• Questions Asked and Answered: Municipal Politics
• Book Review: ‘An Exposure of Socialism’
• Party News: Romford Division Branch
• West Hull Election Notes
• Snapshots:
• Correspondence: S.D.F. Tactics in Lancashire
• The Movement In Manchester

 

No. 42 February 1908

• Party Notes
• The Labour Party and the Unemployed
• Legality and Revolution

 

No. 43 March 1908*

• The Capitalist Class. by Karl Kautsky
• Editorial: Nationalisation not Socialism
• The case of Philip Snowden, M.P.
• Can a Socialist be a Christian?
• A Look Round
• Cuttings and Comments
• The Secret of Marx
• Party Notes
• Grayson’s Gratitude to the S.D.F.
• Correspondence
• Fourth Annual Conference of the S.P.G.B.
• Quote

 

No. 44 April 1908

• Editorial: Boanerges Belligerent
• The Commune of Paris: Who Shot the Prisoners?
• A Sketch of the Life of Marx
• Municipal politics
• Capital and Labour in Paris
• The Doom of the Small Baker
• Party Notes
• A Resolution on Unity and the Socialist Answer
• Answers To Correspondents
• A lesson in capitalist ethics
• Secret Political Funds

 

No. 45 May 1908*

• Past, Present, and Future
• A Word in Season
• The Proletarian Revolution. by Karl Marx
• The Capitalist Class. By Karl Kautsky (continued)
• American Parties and the Unity Question
• The Law of Value and the Dearness of Commodities (Paul Lafargue)
• A Simple Statement
• Notes and Clippings
• From the Watch-Tower
• Book Review: Socialism?
• Book Review: H. G. Wells on the Home
• What did Welford say?
• Party News: Our Fourth Annual Conference
• Correspondence
• At One With Us
• Profit versus Wages
• Poem: The People
• Party Notes
• Publications Received

 

No. 46 June 1908

• The Capitalist Class. By Karl Kautsky (continued)
• Paddington Branch Report
• The Discomfiture of Lawler Wilson
• The Religion of Patriotism
• The First Duty of Socialists
• International Notes – An Interesting Experiment
• Suffragette Humbug

 

No. 47 July 1908

• Editorial
• The Capitalist Class. By Karl Kautsky (continued)
• Answers To Correspondents
• Party Notes
• An Echo of the Commune

 

No. 48 August 1908

• The Pease that Passeth Understanding
• Letters: The Fall of Keir Hardie
• World Crises
• Answers to Corresponbdents

 

No. 49 September 1908

• Some Indiscretions of Wm. Thorne, M. P.
• ‘A Banner with a Strange Device.’
• Party News: Party Pars
• The Society of Tomorrow
• “Social Peace” in France
• Quote (Western Clarion)

 

No. 50 October 1908

• The Capitalist Class. By Karl Kautsky (continued)
• Letter: Money: Will it be needed under socialism?
• Party News: Party Pars
• In The Ditch
• Blatchford Under the Harrow

 

No. 51 November 1908

• Revolution. The Problem of the Out of Work
• Party News: Party Pars
• Trade Unionism
• The Socialist in Action – the Two “Possiblisms”

 

No. 52 December 1908

• Party News: Party Pars
• Keir Hardie in Canada
• Jottings [Grayson]
• The “Spectator” On Courage
• Poem: ‘Put in the Sickles’

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1909

 

No. 53 January 1909

• The Capitalist Class. By Karl Kautsky (continued)
• Party News: The Anti-Socialists at Tottenham
• Party News: S.P.G.B. Lecture List For January
• Unemployment and the S.D.P.
• Party News: Romford Division Branch Report
• Labourism, socialism or anarchism

 

No. 54 February 1909

• Editorial: Our New Leaflet
• Steel and Gold
• Party News: Tottenham Branch Report
• Wolf and Lamb. A Queer Partnership.
• Sark!
• Editorial: The Labour Party and the Law

 

No. 55 March 1909

• Editorial: The Opening of Parliament
• The Capitalist Class. By Karl Kautsky (continued)
• Who wants a man?
• Party News: S.P.G.B. Lecture List and Meetings For March
• The Margin of Unemployment
• Why We Commemorate The Commune
• Labour Leaders and Their Prey At the Portsmouth Conference

 

No. 56 April 1909

• “Free” and Forced Labour
• “The World For The Workers” A songsheet
• Party News: Debate with the Anti-Socialist Union
• The collapse of “direct action”

 

No. 57 May 1909

• Why This Resignation? The I.L.P. And its Leaders
• Editorial: May-Day
• The Capitalist Class. By Karl Kautsky (continued)
• Signs of the times
• Blatchford, Jingo & Patriot
• Party News: Tottenham U.D.C. Election
• Economic Liberty versus Political Power

 

No. 58 June 1909

• The Capitalist Class. By Karl Kautsky (concluded)
• Party News: Party Pars
• Some Lessons from the Paris Strike
• The “Great Man” Fallacy

 

No. 59 July 1909

• Short Story: My Friend Jones
• An “Industrialist” Rout
• The Parable of the Table

 

No. 60 August 1909

• Editorial: Bloody Nicholas!
• Short Story: Those Reform Patches
• T. A. Jackson
• The Tyranny of Usury

 

No. 61 September 1909

• Editorial: The ‘Standard’s’ Anniversary
• Short Story: That’s Different
• Party News: Watford Branch Report
• Barcelona!

 

No. 62 October 1909

• An S.D.P. Curio
• Bungling Bernstein
• S. D. P. and taxation

 

No. 63 November 1909

• Waste Paper and Old Tins
• Party Notes
• Short story: In The Train: Bermondsey Bunkum Baulked

 

No. 64 December 1909

• Labourism versus Socialism. A Debate
• Correspondence (trade unions)
• Obituary: Robert Stroud
• Notes From Islington
• The Lords and Liberal hypocrisy

 

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