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1920

 

No. 185 January 1920*

• Editorial:Our New Year Message
• The Programme of the Blanquist Fugitives from the Paris Commune. by Frederick Engels
• A Brief Exposition of Socialist Theory
• Comparisons
• Sketches
• Party News: S. P. G. B. Propaganda Meetings For January
• Life-Like Portraits of Marx & Engels
• “So spake Mr. Churchill . . . “
• “The Master(s’) Key”
• Bald and Unconvincing: Also “There are others”
• If Man Friday —
• Phrase Magic

 

No. 186 February 1920*

• Editorial: Mr. Clynes’ Call For “Trust”
• The Materialist Conception of History. by Frederick Engels
• “Accumulated Experiences”
• On Abstractions
• An Aspect of Socialism
• The Social Quacks On Revolution
• A Brief Exposition of Socialist Theory. (Continued.)
• Government by Labour
• Practical Politics
• By The Way

 

No. 187 March 1920*

• Editorial: Concerning Ourselves
• The Materialist Conception of History by Frederick Engels
• I.L.P. Foolery
• By The Way
• Our £1,000 Fund
• Book Review: Some Errors of A Syndicalist
• His Majesty King Clynes
• The Meaning of Unemployment
• The Thieves’ Kitchen Records
• Some Socialist Party!
• Poem: ‘After Seeing a Performance of ‘The Trojan Women”

 

No. 188 April 1920*

 

• Masterman’s Muddle
• By The Way
• Peace Problems, Prices and Panics
• Party News: £1000 Fund
• “Economic Power”
• Correspondence. Many Questions, Chiefly Concerning “Economic Power”
• The Thieves Kitchen Records
• Parliament or Soviet? A Critical Examination
• Book Review: The Pioneers of Land Reform
• How “Ability” Directs

 

No. 189 May 1920*

• Editorial: Capitalism’s Dark Hour
• The Historical Method of Karl Marx: P. Lafargue
• The Reason Why
• A Useful Book
• Book Review: A Gloomy Professor
• Pamphlet Review: “Lost, Stolen, or Strayed” — An Intellectual
• Our £1000 Fund
• The Outcome
• “It is necessary to suffer . . . “
• Letter: Concerning Maresnests and other things
• Notices

 

No. 190 June 1920*

• Editorial: Who Pays?
• The Historical Method of Karl Marx ..continued P. Lafargue
• A Brief Exposition of Socialist Theory: continued
• Book Review: on Nationalisation of the Railways
• Purblind Samson
• The Blindness of the Workers
• How To Save The Children
• Poem: ‘Blind!’
• By the Way
• Correspondence: Our Hostility Clause

 

No. 191 July 1920*

• Editorial: Amritsar Again
• The Historical Method of Karl Marx: Paul Lafargue..continued
• A Brief Exposition of Socialist Theory: ..continued
• A Trio of “Intellectuals”
• A Socialist View of Bolshevist Policy
• The Russian Dictatorship
• Paradox or Illusion ? : Old Ghosts in New Pyjamas

 

No. 192 August 1920*

• Our Manifesto is Out
• The Historical Method of Karl Marx by Paul Lafargue: concluded
• An Unusual Friendship
• Truth Will Out
• Soft Soap for Leverhulme
• Progress and Poverty
• The Return of the Prodigal
• Holidays and Toil
• You Can Help
• Capitalism’s Admirable Crichtons
• Party News
• An Interesting Document
• Birthday Honours
• The Super-Opportunists: A Criticism of Bolshevist Policy

 

No. 193 September 1920*

• A Brief Exposition of Socialist Theory (Continued)
• The Position in Japan
• Correspondence: The Mystery of”Sovereigns as Sovereigns and not as Gold”
• Correspondence: What determines the form of the social system?
• The Witches’ Cauldron
• Love and Hunger (Turgenev)
• Personality
• Don’t Be Futile
• An Examination of the Education Question
• Action: An Analysis
• What the Strike Fever Points To

 

No. 194 October 1920*

• Editorial: What About It?
• Party News: We Invade the Potteries
• Correspondence: Those Misrepresentations of Marx Turn Up Again
• Letter: How Shall We ‘Share Out’?
• Questions on Socialism
• Corrupt America and Pure England
• The Secret of No Wages
• Rationalisation or Socialism
• The plain case for Socialism
• Progress in Australia
• What is the State?
• Utopia or Bolshevism? A New Way Out For An Enterprising Government
• “Check to the Bishop”
• A Brief Exposition of Socialist Theory. (Continued.)
• The Reason of It
• “A World to Win”
• As it was not in the beginning. A chapter on the relationship of the sexes
• A Fugitive Colour

 

No. 195 November 1920*

• Editorial: Light, More Light !
• Commodity Struggle or Class Struggle?
• “Middle-Class” Respectability
• Pressure Valves
• Our £1000 Fund
• Letter: Tales of a Traveller
• Don’t Be Misled
• To Heel
• A Great Contradiction: Ca’ Canny – A Capitalist Necessity
• Correspondence: Mr. Dight Says This Is “The Kybosh.”
• An Interesting Letter from a Reader

 

No. 196 December 1920*

• Editorial: The Latest Humbug
• The New Heroes
• One Thousand Pound Fund
• A New Programme of Confusion
• Book Review: The Outline of History by H. G. Wells. A Criticism
• A Look Around
• Correspondence
• A Brief Exposition of Socialist Theory. (Continued.)
• The Alarm
• Book Review: ‘The Threefold State’

 

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1921

 

No. 197 January 1921*

• Editorial: The Masters’ New Offensive
• The Irony Of It
• A Look Round
• What The Workers Do Understand
• Have We?
• Dignity and Impudence
• Book Review: Capitalism’s Dilemma
• Paradoxes of Capitalism: Some Startling Revelations
• The Only Way
• Party Notices

 

No. 198 February 1921*

• Editorial: A Lesson in Politics
• My Lady Tells ‘Em Orf
• Capitalist Fears and Admissions
• Saving The Rates
• Correspondence: The “Daily Herald” Finds a Defender
• Leaders and Leadership
• Letter: Again—Have We?
• A Tilt at a Travesty
• The Outline of History by H. G. Wells. A Criticism
• Rural Poverty. The Situation Reviewed
• Editorial: A Lesson in Politics

 

No. 199 March 1921*

• Editorial: Forward!
• Party News: Our Thousand Pound Fund
• The Alternative
• The Slump
• Letter: The “Daily Herald” Finds Another Defender
• Book Review: “The Case for Capitalism”
• Bread Cast Upon The Waters
• Jottings
• Book Review: The Woman’s Place. The Situation Reviewed
• Pamphlet Review: Socialism In The Village

 

No. 200 April 1921*

• Editorial: The Master Builders
• Party News: Party Propaganda Department
• Correspondence. “The Traveller’s Return”
• Jottings
• Machinery in Agriculture
• Working-Class Politics
• The Housing Scheme
• What The World Wants. A Vapourer Criticised
• The Wrong Box
• Sanity
• Poem: ‘Freedom or Slavery?’

 

No. 201 May 1921*

• Editorial: The Betrayal of the Miners
• Labour and Land
• Jottings
• ‘When Labour Rules.’ A review of Mr. Thomas’s book
• Parliamentary or Direct Action?
• Book Review: “The Triumph of Nationalization”
• Where Russia Stands. Our Attitude Supported by Latest Literature

 

No. 202 June 1921*

• Editorial: The Spectre
• Reason and Practicability
• Jottings
• Seventeen Years
• Short Story: Extraction From ‘The Compleat Socialist.’
• Correspondence
• A Question of Classification
• A David comes to Judgment
• Where Russia Stands
• To All Exploited (by Austrian Communist Party)
• Communist Consistency

 

No. 203 July 1921*

• Editorial: Felony Compounded
• Letters: To The Editors
• On ‘Control’
• Jottings
• “Facing the Facts”
• Short Story: Extraction From ‘The Compleat Socialist.’ 2
• Correspondence : What is our Attitude towards the Communist Party?
• “The Fourth Estate”
• Where Russia Stands

 

No. 204 August 1921*

• Editorial: Re ‘oof
• Party News: Our Thousand Pound Fund
• ‘Revolutionary Christianity.’
• the House of Commons
• Book Review: “And Found Wanting”
• Fools or Liars?
• Book Review: Gilded Capitalism
• What shall we do to save capitalism?
• Letters: The “If” Man Again
• Oughts and Crosses
• The Work of The Socialist Party

 

No. 205 September 1921*

• Editorial: More Communist Consistency
• Gems From Lafargue
• The Despotism of Leadership
• A Discovery
• A Remarkable Prophecy
• A Knight Errant
• Agricultural Industry
• In the House of Commons
• Party News: £1000 Fund
• The “Wisdom” of a “Captain of Industry”
• The Order of St. Catherine
• The Hope of the Unemployed

 

No. 206 October 1921*

• Editorial: Famine in Russia
• Unemployment. Tragedy or Farce?
• Party News: £1000 Fund
• “Higher Prices Mean Fewer Jobs”
• A Sentimentalist in the Antipodes
• “Revolutionary Political Action”
• Where Russia Stands
• The Communist Party of Australia

 

No. 207 November 1921*

• Editorial: Birds of a Feather
• Constitutionalism
• Out of their own mouths are they convicted
• A Brief Exposition of Socialist Theory. (Continued.)
• Party News: £1000 Fund
• Jottings
• As it was not in the beginning, it will not always be
• Some Whine From a Labour Leader
• The Wealthy Socialist
• The Peace Society
• Book Review: ‘The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx’

 

No. 208 December 1921*

• Editorial: “Peace in Our Time”
• Quotes: Plechanoff, Engels and Kautsky
• The Force of Conditions
• The Communist Party: Communists in a Hurry
• Ireland, the Labour Party and the Empire
• Jottings
• Ghosts
• Book Review: “Agriculture and Community.” by J. F. Duncan
• On Illegal Organisations
• The “Crusader” Again

 

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1922

 

No. 209 January 1922*

• Editorial: H. M. Hyndman
• A Brief Exposition of Socialist Theory. (Continued.)
• Why Taxes Do Not Concern The Workers
• Jottings
• Capitalism in East Africa
• Book Review: “The French Revolution”
• The “World’s Fair” of Politics
• A Christmas Carol
• Foster Parents

 

No. 210 February 1922*

• Editorial: Hope Springs Infernal in the Worker’s Breast
• Party News: Our Thousand Pound Fund
• The Coal Miner and his Union
• Letter: Crusader Magazine
• Correspondence
• More “Cheap and Nasty”
• Jottings
• Common-Sense or Super-Sense
• Capitalism in East Africa Part 2
• The Coal Miner and his Union
• A Striking Coincidence
• The Collapse of Capitalism
• Pocket and Principle

 

No. 211 March 1922*

• Editorial: An Impartial Critic
• Book Review: Old Anarchy Writ New
• The Communists and the Labour Party Alliance
• Where Private Property Does Not Reign
• Dope and Anti-Dope
• Parliament . .
• The Key to Historical Development (Engels)
• Mass Production. How it affects the workers
• Capital’s Strangle-Hold
• Our Courageous Masters

 

No. 212 April 1922*

• Editorial: The Engineers Lock-Out
• An Old Man in a Tub
• Knowledge is Power: – If
• “The Japs in Siberia”
• Socialism and Human Nature
• Ray of Hope— For The Capitalist
• Alas! Those Prophets
• Ballot-Box or Baton
• A Few Words on “Mine” and “Thine”
• Direct Action in South Africa

 

No. 213 May 1922*

• Editorial: Psychology and Industry
• Letter: Dight’s Dilemma
• Under the Iron Heel
• “A World Commonwealth”
• A University Professor on Marx
• Letter: Socialism, “Matter” and Ghosts
• Capitalism and Crime

 

No. 214 June 1922*

• Editorial: Councils of the “Peaceful”
• Short Story: A Leisured Class
• Correspondence: Currency Illusions
• Has Trade Unionism Failed?
• Phaëton: Fragment of a Conversation
• The Story of Mr. Penny
• Light on Communist Policy
• Review: America – The Land of Bombast and Poverty

 

No. 215 July 1922*

• Editorial: Critical Times
• On Getting Tired
• Quotes
• Party News: Help to Save
• Letter: Who Should Wear the Cap and Bells?
• The Good Shepherds
• The “Right” To Live
• Some Shoddy Thoughts of a Superficial Mind
• Theatre Review: ‘The Silver Box’
• On Liberty
• From An African Correspondent

 

No. 216 August 1922*

• The Communists and Ireland
• Book Review: Workmen’s Compensation
• Letters: Russian Problems
• Letters: Was Marx Right?
• The Problem of the Labour Leader
• What D’ ye Lack
• American Resources
• The Pierian Spring
• Some I.L.P. Distortions of Marx
• Quotes: Joseph Dietzgen
• Review: “Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of”

 

No. 217 September 1922*

• Editorial: Shall We Mourn?
• “What Could You Do With £600?”
• “Remedies.”
• Prison Reform and the Class Struggle
• Producing and Paying: A Grim Fairy Tale
• Marx Quote:
• Guild “Socialism.” A Good Thing for Capitalist Ratepayer
• The Sociology of Revolutions
• Shelley: In His Way, One Of Us

 

No. 218 October 1922*

• Editorial: The Call of the Graveyard
• Correspondence: Steps to Socialism
• Correspondence: Rip Van Winkle
• The Way of Peace
• A Word on Organisation
• The Optimists
• “Liepocracy.”
• Jottings
• The Broom
• Correspondence: Currency Questions
• The Man in the Back Street
• The Other Eden

 

No. 219 November 1922*

• Editorial: Behind the Fall of the Coalition
• The Man in the Street
• Quote: George Sand
• Jottings
• Election Manifesto
• Correspondence:
• Correspondence: The Collapse of Capitalism
• The Nut

 

No. 220 December 1922*

• Editorial: Election Reflections
• “What We Want and Why.”
• Sunlight
• The Moulders of Public Opinion
• Party News: £1000 Fund
• “Plebs” and Pounds
• Christmas Shops
• Book Review: Military Preparations for the Great War
• Letter: Have We Socialisation?
• A “Royal” Solution of Unemployment
• A Thousand Years Hence
• Book Review: ‘Will the Bolsheviks Maintain Power’

 

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1923

 

No. 221 January 1923*

• Editorial: Where does the Labour Party stand?
• Letters: What is Capital?
• Science and the Working Class
• The Capital Sentence
• Sex
• Vote Swapping
• Murder!
• Wells at the World’s End
• Book Review: “From Crow-Scaring to Westminster”
• Words and Deeds
• Is It Work We Want?

 

No. 222 February 1923*

• Editorial: The Ruhr and the Workers
• Socialism v. Imperialism
• Rent and Houses
• Letter: Commodities and Quids
• Letter: International Exchange
• Letter: The Ostrich Policy
• Policies and Puppets
• Is Lack of Wealth the Trouble?
• £1000 Fund
• “Our hopes . . ”
• Work or Toil
• Evolution
• On Leadership
• The Evolution of W. Gallacher

 

No. 223 March 1923*

• Editorial: Confusionists in Conflict
• Anti-dotes for doped notes
• The Commune of Paris, 1871
• Thoughts of a scientist
• United Front?
• Letters: Correspondence
• The Age of Discontent
• Mass Action or Intelligent Organisation

 

No. 224 April 1923*

• Editorial: Labour’s “Revolutionary” Leaders
• Who are the Socialists?
• Hypocritical Clynes
• Any More For The Sieve?
• How To Snare Labour Leaders
• Socialism and Christianity
• Paradise and Poverty
• Mixed Views
• Justice
• Socialism and the Fascisti

 

No. 225 May 1923*

• Editorial: Building workers trapped again
• Correspondence
• Who gets it?
• To a new reader
• The “Plebs” Again
• Abandon The Idols
• Broadcatching the Working Class
• Book Review: War
• Shall We Join The Labour Party?
• Letter: An Appreciation

 

No. 226 June 1923*

• The constitution of the future
• The “benefits” of nationalisation
• The only way
• You’d be surprised
• Be self-reliant!
• The pessimists
• The working-class
• Hunger!
• Correspondence. Why political organisation?
• The Sacred “Family Hearth”
• Square Plugs In Round Holes
• The Heart of England

 

No. 227 July 1923*

• The Socialist Ideal
• Editorial: Co-operation—A hopeless experiment
• Progress and Politics (book review)
• The Socialist Party and Trade Unions
• More for a new reader
• Oscar Wilde on journalism
• Why Work?
• Socialism and the “Artistic Temperament”
• Don Quixote!
• The Staging of Another Pantomime
• Thomas Henry Huxley

 

No. 228 August 1923*

• The Capital Levy
• Editorial: the dockers’ strike
• Industrial organisation
• Machinery and unemployment
• “Harder lying”
• Whence ideas
• God or the Engineers
• Blind Alleys
• Brains and Bullets
• A Belated Awakening
• The Ravings of a Hired Scribe
• Afric’s Sunny Fountains

 

No. 229 September 1923*

• Editorial: Ideals and Reality
• Moonshine
• Socialisation or Nationalisation
• Bread and Brains
• £1000 Fund
• Letters: Commodities and Quids
• War — the Socialist Position
• Notes
• Work
• The Paralysing Past
• To A New Reader

 

No. 230 October 1923*

• The failure of the “Co-operatives”
• Editorial: Produce more—children !
• The Capital Levy
• Macdonald’s hypocrisy
• “Agriculture and the Guild System” (book review)
• A student of fraud
• The Socialist Party and Trade Unions
• A professor on the equality of opportunity
• Fiction and Fact
• Quotes
• Quote: The Freedom of the Press
• Jingo Communists

 

No. 231 November 1923*

• Editorial: disaster fom profit and profit from disaster
• Weevils and fame
• The workers’ knight-mare
• By the way
• The Capital Levy (letters)
• Commodities and quids
• Wisdom from the past
• To the E. C.
• Party News: Funds
• Unemployment – Cause and Cure

 

No. 232 December 1923*

• Election Manifesto
• Editorial: The “Mountain and the Mouse”
• Macdonald’s hypocrisy
• Labour Governments. The Australian Fiasco
• By the way
• The Policy of the I.L.P
• Who were the First Huns?
• Death the Sanctifier
• The New Offices

 

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1924

 

No. 233 January 1924*

• Editorial: Election Reflections
• On Reading
• By The Way
• The Capital Levy
• Where The Labour Party Fails
• Rates, and Rates of Wages
• The Reward of Genius
• After The Poll
• Items of Interest in the Election
• Socialism and Ethics
• On Reading
• Tom Mann Retracts !

 

No. 234 February 1924*

• Editorial: A “Socialist” Government
• Phrase Worship
• Queensland’s Labour Government
• The bacillus Mussolini
• By The Way
• The manorial system
• Correspondence
• Pamphlet Review: Financial Fog
• Napoleon on Religion
• Freedom!
• Robert Blatchford

 

No. 235 March 1924*

• Editorial: Peace At Any Price!
• The Passing of Lenin
• Bolshevism and the Russian Peasants
• Slavery and Slaves
• The Struggle for Markets
• A Personal Chin Wag
• By The Way
• “And Therein Lies Our Strength”
• The Communist Wreckers

 

No. 236 April 1924*

• Fake Labour Government. The puppet show
• To a new reader
• Socialist Tactics
• Joseph Chamberlain on the Functions of the Capitalist State
• The Westminster By-Election
• Wool-pulling
• Ideals and realities
• By the Way
• Correspondence (elections)
• Correspondence (currency)
• Lucretius quote

 

No. 237 May 1924*

• Ten Days that Shook Suburbia
• King Canute up-to-date
• A Brief Sketch of the Materialist Conception of History – Part 1
• Marx on Free Trade
• By the way
• The Quick Change Artist
• How We Live
• Our Daily Bread
• “The procession of protracted death”
• The Socialist view of religiom
• Socialism and Religion pamphlet
• Lucretius quote

 

No. 238 June 1924*

• The Fraud of Reform
• Coal Inquiry admissions
• A Brief Sketch of the Materialist Conception of History – Part 2
• Marx on Free Trade
• On lookig ahead
• The State
• The relief of Abstinence
• Fascism and other things
• Reading . .
• Short story: A Leisured Class
• We Mean No ill!
• Engels quote

 

No. 239 July 1924*

• The Revolution in Home Life
• The Strike on the Underground
• Labour in the United States
• The Capitalist Housing Bill
• The Labour Party Votes for Strike-Smashing Bill
• Marx and his Work
• Socialism and Religion
• A will o’ the wisp
• Answers to correspondents

 

No. 240 August 1924*

• The Useless Capitalist. The Effects of Economic Evolution
• Editorial: Labour Rules The Empire With Bombs and Bullets
• Socialism and Birth Contol
• Policy and Tactics of Socialism
• How The Law Protects Property
• A look round
• Marx on Free Trade
• The condition of the working class
• More joy for the miners
• Capitalist education
• Common nonsense about Socialism
• Debates and the I.L.P.
• The industrial crisis and its cause

 

No. 241 September 1924*

• The Conflict between Anarchism and Socialism
• Reparations or Revolution
• A Lord discovers the real Marx
• Policy and Tactics of Socialism
• A Brief Sketch of the Materialist Conception of History – Part 3
• A look round
• Lloyd George on the Labour Party

 

No. 242 October 1924*

• The Great War and the Greater Wars that are coming
• The Decay of the Communist Party
• Socialism and the Mental Revolution
• Ramsay MacDonald’s Attack on the Workers’ Struggle Against Capital
• A Brief Sketch of the Materialist Conception of History – Part 4
• Socialism and the Labour Movement
• Book Review: ‘The Class Struggles in France’
• Some questions on Socialist policy

 

No. 243 November 1924*

• Editorial: The Great Sham Fight at the Polls
• A short story: The Socialist Versus the Vote Catcher
• Why Socialists Oppose Nationalisation
• A Brief Sketch of the Materialist Conception of History – Part 5
• Socialism and Religion. Reply to a Vicar
• Labour and Value. Harold Cox on Karl Marx
• Five Penny Pamphlets. A Review
• Correspondence

 

No. 244 December 1924*

• Violence and the Social Revolution
• The Bankuptcy of “Communist” Theory
• Book review: The Douglas Credit Scheme Exposed
• The Class War . . . And The Facts Behind it
• Put This In Your Collection of Golden Deeds
• A Look Around
• How Labour Ruled Mespot
• A Brief Sketch of the Materialist Conception of History – Part 6
• Correspondence
• Lloyd George tells the truth”
• Quotes from Engels

 

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1925

 

No. 245 January 1925*

• Happy New Year ! Its empty meaning for the workers
• Editorial: The Organisation of the Working Class
• The capitalist princples of the I.L.P.
• Socialism and the so-called “middle class”
• The economics of social amusement
• A Brief Sketch of the Materialist Conception of History – Part 7
• A look round
• More Trade Less Work
• Party News: New Publications: Here is Your Opportunity!
• Knowledge
• English Journalism

 

No. 246 February 1925*

• Editorial: The Shaving of Shaw
• The Real Russia: Its Present Position and Tendencies
• Socialism and the so-called “Middle Class”
• The economics of social amusement
• Lansbuy and the “Daily Herald”. A forgotten incident
• Workers’ Responsibilities
• Wages and the Cost of Living
• The capitalist principles of the I.L.P. confessed
• Replies to correspondents

 

No. 247 March 1925*

• Socialism and ‘The Third International’
• Editorial: The Fallacies of the “Minority Movement”
• Willie Gallacher’s Political Indigestion
• The mockery of “Freedom”
• A look round
• The Class Struggle. Its Economic Origin and mental results
• Some Communist Questions Answered
• Answers to correspondents
• Quote from Sir William Ashley

 

No. 248 April 1925*

• Mr. Baldwin’s Utopia: Can Lions and Lambs Co-operate?
• Editorial: The Labour Party Betrays The Unemployed
• The Capitalist and his Case
• Economics and Ideas. Their Influence on Political Institutions
• The Riches of the Working Class !!
• Catholicism and Socialism: Mr. Wheatley’s Lie
• The Red Herring of Anti-Fascism
• The Class Struggle
• Socialism and the fire of Spring
• Book Review: ‘The Diplomacy of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’

 

No. 249 May 1925*

• Do Wages determine Prices?
• The Truth about the Housing Question
• Economics and Ideas. Their influence on Political Institutions
• What is the Future of Civilisation?
• Reolution and its opponents
• Self-Denial: A Millionaire’s Advice
• The beauties of “progress”
• Letters: Socialism and Insurance
• Is Marx’s Theory of Value Sound?

 

No. 250 June 1925*

• Taxation and the workers. The budget and the bottom dog
• Editorial: The conflict between Religion and Socialism
• Economics and Ideas. Their influence on political institutions
• A look around
• The Romance of Ages
• The Anti-Fascists. A criticism and our reply
• New publications
• Our Revolutionary Position
• “A Living Wage.” I.L.P. Moonshine

 

No. 251 July 1925*

• Working Class Education. The failure of the Labour Colleges
• The Road to Power. An exposure of the Social Democrats
• Economics and Ideas. Their influence on political institutions
• A look round
• “THe Anti-Fascists”. Their rejoinder and our reply
• The Economics of Paying
• Is Compensation of the Capitalist Possible?
• Book Review: The latest criticism of Karl Marx
• Book Review: ‘The Socialist’s Bible’
• The Origins of Christianity

 

No. 252 August 1925*

• Socialism and Darwinism
• Editorial: The Socialist view of the situation in China
• Economics and Ideas. Their influence on political institutions
• Is the Socialist Attitude towards religion sound?”
• The coming of Socialism
• Letters: Asked and Answered
• Lansbury’s Weekly
• Spooks again
• Book Review: The Problem of Problems

 

No. 253 September 1925*

• Hard Coal and Soft Soap
• Editorial: The Blackness of “Red” Friday
• H. G. Wells’ idealism and the working class
• The men of science and their “religion”
• Economics and Ideas. Their influence on political institutions
• How they make their money
• The Illusions of Anti-Militarists
• The Anti-Fascists again
• Answers to correspondents
• The meaning of the Pensions Bill

 

No. 254 October 1925*

• Socialism and Empire
• Editorial: The Labour Party’s Liberal Programme
• A look round
• Economics and Ideas. Their influence on political institutions
• The highways of slaughter
• A scientist on his knees
• Review: Private Property and its Catholic Defenders
• Confusion in Scotland

 

No. 255 November 1925*

• Science and the social problem
• Editorial: The real meaning of Revolution
• Fifty years of “Progress”! The economic position of the workers
• A dish of tripe. Selected from “Lansbury’s Weekly”
• Wages
• Policy and tactics of Socialism
• Socialism is not Christianity
• Candid confession
• Book Review: The Economics of Marx (Kautsky)
• The Idealists!

 

No. 256 December 1925*

• The origin of capital and the rise of wage slavery
• Why Socialists Oppose Leadership
• Fifty Years of “Progress” !
• The Industrial Revolution
• War-Time Fairy Tales
• The Socialist Party and the Labour Movement
• Safety and Profits
• Prohibition
• Socialism and Local Government

 

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1926

 

No. 257 January 1926*

• Co-operation. Past, present and future
• Editorial: What of the future?
• The shorter working day
• A look round
• Who wrote the Communist Manifesto of 1847?
• Capital’s Augean Stable
• Why Socialists Oppose the Political Levy
• Why Socialism must come
• How workers are displaced
• Marx v. Christ
• Curiosities

 

No. 258 February 1926*

• Prosperity and Dividing-up
• Editorial: Socialism and the Humanitarians
• The Great Discoveries and their economic effects
• The survival of the fittest
• Compulsory arbitration
• Marx on Free Trade
• Henry Dubb—and his brother
• What “Labour” is Doing
• Trade Unions—Sick Benefit Clubs
• Taxation and the workers
• Signs of the Times

 

No. 259 March 1926*

• The Paris Commune
• The Antics of the Left-Wing
• Socialism and parliamentary action
• The Communist Party and I.L.P. Unity
• The Communist Party and violence
• Party or Mass
• Is Martyrdom the Test of Truth?
• Socialism and Religion
• Those elusive profits. Economics from a Silk Hat
• Who are the public?
• An encyclopaedia for twopence
• The policy of the Socialist Party
• Two pamphlets
• Party News: Debates
• Marx quote

 

No. 260 April 1926*

• Socialism and Materialism
• The Engineers and Communist policy
• No Compromise
• Marx on Free Trade
• Socialism and the fundamentals of anarchism
• The Socialist Party and You
• Working Class “Education”: Plebs Leaguer Puts Marx Right
• Population and Poverty
• The Secret of ‘High’ Wages
• Party activities
• Quotes

 

No. 261 May 1926*

• The Fallacies of Opportunism
• Locano and Fred Kano
• Opinions and Interests
• Sport and Socialism
• The Engineers’ Strike
• The Economic Trend
• The Humanitarians. A Criticism of Our Position
• Letters: The Plebs Leaguer and Marx
• How many lumps? A charwoman’s charter !
• A Labour M.P. criticises our position

 

No. 262 June 1926*

• Editorial: The General Strike Fiasco: Its Causes and Effects
• Letter: Socialism and Materialism
• The Result of “Trust”: A Lesson of the Great Strike
• The Gospel of the National Citizens’ Union
• The Strike
• Ownership and Political Power

 

No. 263 July 1926*

• Shall we emigrate?
• Can we do without capital?
• Socialism and Materialism
• Editorial: Should We Attack Religion?
• Pamphlet Review: Capitalism in the Tropics
• Letters: Must We Convert The Majority?
• Democracy and the Class Struggle

 

No. 264 August 1926*

• The Struggle for World Trade
• Editorial: The Crushing of the Miners
• Henry Ford or Karl Marx?
• Fresh meat !
• Birds of a feather
• The M.C.H. Again
• “Anarchist fundamentals”
• Silly quote

 

No. 265 September 1926*

• A Land of “No Class War”
• The Miners’ Position
• Materialism and Art. by George Plechanoff (Part 1)
• “The Repair Gang” of Capitalism
• Socialism and the essentials of Anarchism
• The Social Environment of the Worker
• Ruined By Riches
• Answers to correspondents

 

No. 266 October 1926*

• Pamphlet Review: Marx versus Mediums: Materialism or Spiritualism?
• The Wages Question at the Trades Union Congress
• Personalities and Socialist politics
• Materialsm and Art by George Plechanoff
• Obituary: Alex Anderson
• The twilight of Christianity
• Individualism and social evolution
• Party activities
• A correction

 

No. 267 November 1926*

• The Principles of The Socialist Party
• Editorial: Socialism v. The Labour Party
• The “Daily Herald”—and Truth
• Materialism and Art by George Plechanoff
• Are Marx’s teachings sound?
• Has British trade a future?
• Two questions about value
• So this is Socialism !
• Secret diplomacy
• Party News: Hull Branch: Invitation to Readers
• Answers to correspndents

 

No. 268 December 1926*

• Who benefits from mass production?
• Editorial: The ‘revolutionary’ (!) Communists
• Has British trade a future?
• The Currency Question
• The Monistic Conception of History by G. V. Plechanoff (part I)
• Ford v. Marx
• Should We Join The Labour Party?
• Conditions of Membership
• The Principles of The Socialist Party. – Part 2
• Yankee Prosperity
• Capitalism victorious in China
• Book Review: An I.L.P. Evangelist
• Materialism v. Spiritism: A Criticism and Our Reply

 

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No. 269 January 1927*

• The failure of the Co-operative Movement
• The monistic conception of hisory by G. V. Plechanoff (part II)
• The lesson of the coal dispute
• What determines prices?
• A Socialist Survey
• New Year Resolution
• The Principles of The Socialist Party. – Part 3
• Editorial: The Past, the Present, and the Future
• Materialism v Spiritism Again

 

No. 270 February 1927*

• Editorial: The Class Struggle.A lesson fom Germany
• The Monistic Conception of History by G. V. Plechanoff (part III)
• Mussolini and Parliament
• How we civilise the ‘heathen’
• A discussion of the Money Question
• The Single Tax and Socialism
• Party News: The Paddington Revival
• The Principles of The Socialist Party. – Part 4
• Pamphlet Review: The Class Struggle in China
• Does Socialism mean Free Love?
• Scottish Home Rule

 

No. 271 March 1927*

• Can Trade Unionism Save The Workers?
• Editorial: Is the Living Wage sound?
• Socialism or Chinese nationalism?
• The people’s food
• Efficiency and its economic results
• The Source of Wealth
• Why Not Join Us?
• Science v. Spiritism

 

No. 272 April 1927*

• Will capitalism collapse?
• A look round
• Progress and pauperism
• Three pamphlets
• An Anarchist defence of private property
• Answers to correspondents
• Editorial: What We Mean By Revolution
• Book Review: A Soldier’s Thoughts on the War
• The Utopian Outlook
• The Pacifists and Socialism

 

No. 273 May 1927*

• Editorial: The Socialist View of the Trade Union Bill
• Agriculture and the workers
• The Cost of Living Index
• Is the franchise a fraud?
• The Inflation Question Again
• The Anti-Socialist Union runs away again
• Mussolini and Parliament
• The I.L.P. and Their Idols: The Conference of Opportunism
• Book Review: The Mask off in China
• A Modern “Metropolis”
• Materialism v. Spiritism
• Psychic Science

 

No. 274 June 1927*

• The Science of Revolution
• Editorial: The Socialist Party and the Labour Party. A Comparison
• Does capitalism reward inventive genius?
• The budget, taxes and prices
• The onward march of capitalism
• Incentive—yesterday and to-day
• “Inflation” once more
• Party News: An Urgent Appeal
• Party News: An Appeal to Manchester Readers
• A Rare Fragment
• At the street corner
• ‘Psychic Science’

 

No. 275 July 1927*

• Editorial: The Moscow executions
• The Development of Capitalism and its Lessons
• Correspondence
• Party News: New Pamphlet
• Economic Tendencies
• “All you want to do is to buy brains”
• Why We Are Socialists
• “An old prevaricator of the truth . . . “
• Letter: The Value of the Franchise
• “Profligate Extravagance . . ”
• A. J. Cook versus Herbert Smith
• The “Plebs” on China
• Marxism or Communism
• Book Review: The “Empire” in the Tropics
• Letter: Is A Socialist Policy Applicable To America

 

No. 276 August 1927*

• Is Britain over-populated?
• Editorial: Trade Unions and the Employers
• The battle of the isms
• Backward races. Lessons from South Africa
• American Prosperity
• China: Another Chapter
• A Labour Leader’s Defence of Capitalism
• Materialism v. Spiritism: A Further Rejoinder and Our Reply
• The Soviet Government and the Combines
• A man of God and his “Economics”
• Birds of a feather
• Utopia—on easy terms
• It pays to subsidize>
• I.L.P.

 

No. 277 September 1927*

• Business experts and their bubbles
• What the Labour Party wants
• Songs and Revolution
• Is the vote a weapon? Some questions and our reply
• Labour Party refuses to debate
• What is capital?
• Who invented capitalism?
• Editorial: Crime and Punishment
• Letter: Do We Support Strikes?
• The Communist Mixture
• What Does socialism Offer You?
• Bernard Shaw and Socialism
• Letter: The Vienna Butchery

 

No. 278 October 1927*

• The Irish elections. More Communist trickery
• Editorial: Capitalism in Queensland. Ferocious Labour Government
• The wealthy workers !
• Socialism and Science
• Should we produce more? An economic fallacy exposed
• Capitalism in the Post Ofice
• A word in season
• What capitalism means
• The franchise
• The view of a great painter
• Pamphlets or sale
• Labourism: A Confession of Failure
• Why We Want Socialism

 

No. 279 November 1927*

• The Anatomy of Capital: Sir Arthur Keith’s Economics
• Editorial: The fruits of “reform”
• Doctrines, dogmas and Marx
• Who are the capitalists?
• Hero worship. A conversation with a visitor from Mars
• The role of the financier
• The nationalisation fraud
• Larkin protests
• Socialism v the I.L.P.
• What is Socialism?
• Party News: East Ham

 

No. 280 December 1927*

• Some questions on Socialist policy
• Nationalisation and Socialism
• Socialism and “supermen”
• Money and price
• Editorial: Fascism and the State
• Party News: Hull Branch
• Armistice Reflections
• “The Recruiting Sergeant”
• The Class Struggle in Soviet Russia

 

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No. 281 January 1928*

• Editorial: Where Bolshevism Fails
• The Psychology of Capital
• An Individualist’s Defence of Capital
• Hero Worship: A Conversation with a Visitor from Mars
• Answers to Correspondents
• The Workers and the Dogs
• Socialism and Anti-Parliamentarism
• Sex Relations in Russia: Are they revolutionary?
• Book Review: Karl Marx and His Critics: Do Profits Grow on Thistles?
• The Shadow Show

 

No. 282 February 1928*

• Editorial: Tear Away the Veils that Blind!
• Industrial Peace: The Capitalist Utopia
• Correspondence: Socialism and “Supermen.”
• Party Activities
• We Enter the Parliamentary Fray
• Hero Worship: In Conversation with a Visitor from Mars
• The Founders of Modern Socialism
• Letters: Are Our Views On Russia Correct?
• What Does Life Mean To You?

 

No. 283 March 1928*

• Editorial: The Liberal Industrial Fraud
• Why Unemployment Abounds in the U.S.A
• Money and Price. A Critics Rejoinder and our Reply
• The Class Struggles in France: Before and After the Commune. By Paul Lafargue
• Correspondence: A Defence of the I.L.P. and Our Reply
• The Plight of the Cotton workers
• Socialism or Chinese Nationalism: A Criticism from Australia
• Moscow Orders More Communist Somersaults
• Book Review: World Disarmament
• The Passing of Hardy

 

No. 284 April 1928*

• Editorial: Is Socialism Atheism?
• A Defender of the Russian Government: A Criticism and our Reply
• Dishonest I.L.P. Journalism
• The Aims of the I.L.P. Exposed
• Hero Worship: A Conversation with a Visitor from Mars
• The Failure of the Labour Colleges
• Australian Communists Answered
• Book Review: How the I.L.P. “Make” History
• Should the Workers Fight for Russia?

 

No. 285 May 1928*

• Editorial: Our 24th Annual Conference
• Labour Party Warmongers
• Saklatvala on Socialism
• Hero Worship: A Conversation with a Visitor from Mars
• Correspondence: The Ballot or the Barricade?
• The Atrocities of Peace
• A Talk To Wives and Mothers
• Debate: Socialism versus Liberalism
• Short Story: ‘The Great Difference’

 

No. 286 June 1928*

• Editorial: Mr. Maxton’s Apology for the ILP
• Unemployment: We Do Not Shirk the Issue
• Socialism and Reform
• Party News
• Hero Worship: A Conversation with a Visitor from Mars
• Should We Use the Terms “Faith” and “Belief”?
• Ballot or Barricade Again: Mr. Chapman Tries Once More
• Answers to Correspondents
• Book Review: The International – Part 1
• Book Review: ‘An Illustrated History of the Russian Revolution’
• Socialists and Local Government
• The Socialist Party versus the I.L.P

 

No. 287 July 1928*

• Editorial: Maxton and Cook’s Catchwords
• Some Effects of Combination and Machinery
• The Labour Party’s New Programme: A Bid for Liberal Support
• Hero Worship: A Conversation with a Visitor from Mars
• Comic Confessions of a Capitalist
• What is Capital?
• Sociology of Eighteenth Century French Drama. by G. V. Plechanov
• Letters: Answers to Correspondents
• Book Review: The History of the International – Part 2
• The Rt. Hon. Mr. Wheatley Joins The Alliance
• The First Oppressors in England

 

No. 288 August 1928*

• Editorial: Keir Hardie and the World War
• Hero Worship: A Conversation With a Visitor from Mars
• The Communists and the Trusts
• The Transition to Socialism: A Reply to Mr. Fred Montague, M.P
• Socialism Smashed Again
• Socialists and Rota Committees: Answer to “Revolutionist”
• Political Means to Economic Ends
• The Treachery of Leaders: A second reply to a critic
• Correspondence: The aims of the I.L.P
• Are the Cooperators Socialists?
• Correspondence: Ballot or Barricade? Mr. Chapman’s Last Word
• The I.L.P’s Confession
• Mr. Guy Aldred and the S.P.G.B
• The Communists’ Reform Policy

 

 

No. 289 September 1928*

• Editorial: Maxton and Cook: Where do they stand?
• The Progress of Capitalism in Russia
• Letters: What is Capital?
• Should Socialists Vote for Labour Candidates?
• Must the Workers Control Parliament?
• The transition period
• Socialist Definitions—A Critic corrected
• The socialist searchlight
• The plain case for Socialism
• Answers to correspondents
• A look around
• The Progress of Capitalism in Russia
• Letters: What is Capital?
• Should Socialists Vote for Labour Candidates?

 

No. 290 October 1928*

• Editorial: The Commercialisation of Science
• Have Socialists a Constructive Policy?
• Provincial Propaganda Tour – A Report
• Questions on Socialism
• Corrupt America and Pure England
• The Secret of No Wages
• Rationalisation or Socialism
• The plain case for Socialism
• Progress in Australia
• What is the State?

 

No. 291 November 1928*

• The Labour machine in Conference
• Do we want a censor?
• “Modernism” v Materialism
• The battleground of the class struggle
• Socialist definitions: a rejoinder
• The economics of the I.L.P
• A talk to wives & mothers
• Letter: Was Capitalism A Mistake?
• Letter: Answers To Correspondents
• Our First Prospective Candidate for Parliament

 

No. 292 December 1928*

• Editorial: What Shall We Do With Our Votes?
• The Rich Man’s Burden. A Defence of Mammon
• On the back of the working class
• Party News: Parliamentary Fund
• Corrupt America and Pure England
• Sociology of Eighteenth Century French Drama. by G. V. Plechanov
• Is there a Capitalist System?
• The Great Pre-War Prosperity!
• Trotsky States His Case

 

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No. 293 January 1929*

• Editorial: Wealth and Directive Ability
• “What Would We Do Without Leaders?”
• Letters: Answers to Correspondents
• The Kings of Capital and the Captains of Industry
• The Economic League Discover Some “Socialist” Fallacies
• Sociology of Eighteenth Century French Drama. by G. V. Plechanov
• What is the Use of Parliament?
• Points For Propagandists
• Marxism To-Day
• Book Review: The Champions of Labour!
• Lessons from the American Elections
• The Wings of the I.L.P

 

No. 294 February 1929*

• Editorial: The Good Time Coming !
• Party News: SPGB Propaganda Meetings
• A Professor Smashes Marx’s Theories
• The Economic League On Capital
• Received For Review
• Party News: SPGB Lectures
• Imagination
• Book Review: “The Modern Case For Socialism”
• Party News: Our First Prospective Candidate For Parliament
• The Workers Under “Labour Rule”
• The Censor in Australia
• The Family Allowances Fraud
• Book Review: ‘Cement’
• Parliament and the Army: The Curragh “Mutiny”

 

No. 295 March 1929*

• Editorial: Capitalism and Christianity
• Party News: SPGB Lectures
• Answer To Correspondent
• The Industrial Transfer Farce
• Labour Party Confusion
• Socialist Brevities
• The Socialist Message
• Letters: The “Cruelty” of Capitalism
• The Socialist Outlook
• Book Review: Spoiling Egyptians: British Capitalism and Egyptian Nationalism
• Wages and Nationalisation
• Book Review: “Capital,” by Karl Marx: A Review

 

No. 296 April 1929*

• Editorial: The Labour Party and Unemployment
• Our First Prospective Candidate For Parliament
• A Foggy Knight on Socialism
• A Curious “Class” War
• Communist Party Contortion
• A Letter From An Australian Reader
• John Wheatley’s Friends
• What Lloyd-George Promised In 1906
• An Echo of the Past
• A “Simple” Cure For Industrial Trouble
• A. J. Cook Returns To The Fold
• The Socialist Party and National Defence
• Short Story: Heard in the Train
• Love Your Enemies
• What To Do With Your Vote
• Book Review: ‘Reminiscences of Lenin’

 

No. 297 May 1929*

• Socialism and the General Election
• The Parties and the Election
• Answer To Correspondent: What is wealth?
• Party News: Our First Prospective Candidate For Parliament
• Some Questions On Our Policy
• Party News: New Premises
• Socialist Brevities
• George Moore on Charity-Mongering
• Answers to correspondents
• Party News: S.P.G.B. Propaganda Meetings
• The Uses of Hate
• Obituary: An Active Worker for Socialism
• To The New Women Voters
• The Communist Party and the General Election
• The I.L.P. and the Election
• To The New Women Voters
• The Death of Comrade Jack Fitzgerald

 

No. 298 June 1929*

• The Economics of “Oil”
• To Wives, Mothers and Others
• Communist Rioting
• Rationalisation and Unemployment
• The Labour Party and the Future
• The Labour Failure in Queensland
• Letters: Answer to Correspondent
• A Push For Socialism
• Pamphlet Review: Saklatvala on Socialism

 

No. 299 July 1929*

• Editorial: The New Era!
• How Not To Get Socialism
• “Capital.” A Criticism of the New Translation
• The Australian Censorship
• The S.L.P. and the S.P.G.B
• The Strike and the Vote
• Aspects of the “Woman Question”
• Trafalgar Square Demonstration
• Points for Propagandists
• The Meaning of Disarmament
• The Capitalist System: How It Works
• Answers to correspondents
• Socialist Brevities: A Life on the Ocean Wave-Under Capitalism

 

No. 300 August 1929*

• Editorial: The Labour Government: Truth Will Out!
• Capitalism and War
• A Parliamentary Joke
• Who Pays For The War?
• Mr. Wheatley’s Lapse
• Aspects of the “Woman Question”: Part 2
• The New Translation of Capital: A letter from the translator
• Russia Was Never Socialist: Review -“An Illustrated History of the Russian Revolution” (Vol. II)
• Old Age Pensions in U.S.A. (Letter from a reader in America.)
• A Look Around : The army of today
• Knowledge
• Currency Reform and Socialism

 

No. 301 September 1929*

• Editorial: The Cotton Dispute
• The Plimsoll Line
• Living the Double Life
• Thoughts at the Pictures
• All Quiet on the Parliamentary Front
• Book Review: “Pheasants and Men”
• “Our Prime Minister”
• Sir Ray Lankester and Karl Marx
• Party News: Tory Gold in Battersea: An Ancient Gibe
• The Dictatorship in Russia
• Some Interesting Quotations
• Aspects of the “Woman Question”

 

No. 302 October 1929*

• Editorial: The Communist Farce
• Letters: Socialism and Reforms
• Aspects of the “Woman Question”
• Potash and Palestine :Dead Sea Fruit
• A Queer Party
• Currency Reform and Socialism
• Birth Control, Wages and Private Property: The Attitude of the Catholic Church
• Correction
• “Nationalisation is Obsolete”
• Another Life of Marx: Queues at Truth
• Women in Industry
• The 61st Trades Union Congress
• “Red” Vienna and “Red” London
• Mr Belloc and the Servile State

 

No. 303 November 1929*

• Editorial: Affluence in the U.S.A
• Aspects of The “Woman Question”
• To Our Readers in Reading
• Quote
• Letter: Unemployment and the Printing Trades
• Socialist Standard: Back Numbers
• Politics International, National or Local?
• Industry and the Banks: Wicked Bankers and Kind Captains of Industry
• Labour’s Man of Destiny
• Mr. Belloc and the Servile State
• The Labour Party Conference

 

No. 304 December 1929*

• Editorial: Russia A Dangerous Delusion
• A Soviet Apologia
• Southwark Branch
• Party Library
• “Labour” Fails, Why Not Try Socialism?
• Letter: Socialism and the Gold Standard
• The Delusions of a Critic
• Good News from America
• Another Life of Marx – Part 2
• A Communist Sums up the Communist Party
• Letter: Need The Workers Understand Socialism?
• The I.L.P. in Parliament

 

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