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1940

 

No. 425 January 1940*

• Editorial: The I.L.P. Peace Motion
• Editorial: The Russian Invasion of Finland
• Black-Out
• The Gods of The Rising Sun
• Whither America?
• Nazism and Bolshevism: Historical Development Explained
• Party News: Socialists and the War
• Letter: The Socialist Attitude Towards War in General
• When Thieves Fall Out
• This Month’s Quotation: Karl Kautsky
• Conscience and Politics
• A Socialist New-Year Message
• The State and the Socialist Revolution, by J. Martov
• The Slave’s Awakening

 

No. 426 February 1940

How can Hitlerism be destroyed?

This Month’s Quotation: R. H. Tawney

Socialism and Snob Values

The Balkans and the Black International

Obituary: Death of Comrade A. Jacobs

 

No. 427 March 1940

• Editorial: Democracy and Understanding: Should We Leave Politics To The “Intelligent Minority”?
• Party News: Our Propaganda in War Time
• This Month’s Quotation: Marshal Foch

 

No. 428 April 1940

• Editorial: An Echo from the Crimean War
• This Month’s Quotation: Karl Kautsky
• I.L.P. Refuses Debate
• The Importance of Marxism

 

No. 429 May 1940

This Month’s Quotation: Socialist

A Mad World

The Importance of Marxism—(continued)

 

No. 430 June 1940

• This Month’s Quotation: Professor G. D. Herron
• The Importance of Marxism—(continued)
• Book Review: Stalin — Three Portraits
• Lansbury: A Figure of the Past

 

No. 431 July 1940

• Editorial: The “Socialist Standard” in War-Time
• This Month’s Quotation: Richard Rumbold
• The Importance of Marxism—(continued)
• Stupidus and Sapiens
• Terms and Terminological Inexactitudes

 

No. 432 August 1940

• Editorial: Federal Europe or Internationalism
• This Month’s Quotation: H. G. Wells
• How Henry Ford Smashes Trade Unions
• The Importance of Marxism—(continued)

 

No. 433 September 1940

Editorial: Men of Moscow

Editorial: An Offence to Destroy Food—But only in War-Time

Notes by the Way: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

The “Daily Worker” writes about its Former Hero

This Month’s Quotation: H. G. Wells

The Death of Trotsky

 

No. 434 October 1940

• Editorial: What They Say About Socialism
• This Month’s Quotation: Henry David Thoreau

 

No. 435 November 1940

• Editorial: Blessings!
• This Month’s Quotation: Frederick the Great
• Reflections in War Time
• Religion, War and Nazism
• Sir Richard Acland in a Muddle
• Incentive Under Socialism
• In the Front Line

 

No. 436 December 1940

• Important People
• “Forward” and the National Government
• The People’s Convention
• Why Not Socialism?
• This Month’s Quotation: Cardinal Newman
• Party News: To All Our Readers
• Freedom of Opinion

 

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1941

 

No. 437 January 1941

• Editorial: The I.L.P. Peace Motion
• This Month’s Quotation: Charlie Chaplin
• So Much Alike!
• Strange Champions of Socialism

 

No. 438 February 1941

• Editorial: The Suppression of the ‘Daily Worker’
• This Month’s Quotation: Wilhelm Liebknecht
• Party News: Our Difficulty is Your Opportunity
• The Post-War Mirage
• Marxism and Democracy

 

No. 439 March 1941

• This Month’s Quotation: Wilhelm Liebknecht
• Press Cuttings
• Two Quotations About Marx
• A Financial Expert and Socialism

 

No. 440 April 1941

• Editorial: B.B.C. Boycott of Socialists
• This Month’s Quotation: Socialist
• Pamphlet Review: “Black Record”
• Industrial Conscription in Russia
• Is Bernard Shaw a Judge of Socialism

 

No. 441 May 1941

• This Month’s Quotation: Karl Marx
• What the Soldier Wants and How to Get it
• Party News: Our Head Office

 

No. 442 June 1941

• Editorial: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hess
• This Month’s Quotation: Gerrard Winstanley
• Put Not Your Trust in Commissars
• It Also Happened a Long Time Ago

 

No. 443 July 1941*

• Editorial: Who Will Do the Dirty Work Under Socialism?
• Editorial: No Unemployment After the War
• An Interesting Quotation
• This Month’s Quotation: William Morris
• Tit-Bits from the Capitalist Stewpot
• Notes by the Way: Well-Known Non-Socialist Becomes Ex-Socialist
• Gentlemen All
• What the Labour Party Represents
• An Interesting Quotation
• A Comparison
• War Overtakes Russia

 

No. 444 August 1941

• Editorial: Misrepresentations of Socialism
• This Month’s Quotation: William Morris
• Press Cuttings
• Not According to Plan
• The Impermanence of Reform
• What a Conservative M.P. Thought of the Labour Party and Sir Stafford Cripps

 

No. 445 September 1941

• This Month’s Quotation: J. F. Bray
• A Tribute from the I.L.P.
• Party News: News From The U.S.A.
• Party News: “Two Years”
• Obituary: Eva Torf Judd

 

No. 446 October 1941

• This Month’s Quotation: Lewis Henry Morgan
• Reconstruction: A Lesson from the Last War
• An Open Letter to the “Elementary” Teacher

 

No. 447 November 1941

• This Month’s Quotation: Benjamin Franklin
• “Equal Sacrifice”
• Obituary: Kitty Gostick

 

No. 448 December 1941

• This Month’s Quotation: G. D. Herron
• Post-War Unemployment: An Inconvenient Question in the House of Lords
• Notes By The Way: Should Women Have Equal Pay with Men?
• Is Capitalism a “Conspiracy”?

 

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1942

 

No. 449 January 1942

• Notes By The Way: Wages in Russia
• Film Review: A Common Belief
• The Passing of the Communist Party

 

No. 450 February 1942

• “Local Boy Makes Good,” or “Alone He Did it”
• Trade relations after the war
• Review: The Philosophy of Anarchism
• Is the Mind a Myth?
• Party News: Party Notes
• Our Companion Parties in the Western Hemisphere

 

No. 451 March 1942*

• Editorial: Incentives Under Socialism
• Editorial: The Socialist Archbishop
• The Future of Sir Stafford Cripps
• The New, Old Capitalism
• Socialism and Anarchism – Part 1
• Socialism For The Newcomer
• Reality of Equality
• Notes by the Way: The Changes and Chances of War
• Party Notes and News
• Party News: To All Readers
• Are The Workers Better Off During The War?
• Death of an Alberta Comrade
• Fish and Conchies

 

No. 452 April 1942*

• The Miners’ Problem
• Editorial: War-Time Restrictions On Publication
• Socialism and Anarchism – Part 2
• Post War Trade. Another Scheme to Save Capitalism
• Two Stories of Synthetic Rubber
• The S.L.P. again
• The S.P.G.B. and electors
• Party Notes and News
• The Socialist Parties of New Zaland and Australia
• Press cuttings

 

No. 453 May 1942

• Political Parties and the Workers

 

No. 454 June 1942

• Book Review: The Plight of the Merchant Seaman
• Japanese Background

 

No. 455 July 1942

• The Planners of Capitalism
• James Brindley and the Duke of Bridgewater
• The S.L.P. Still prefers to say nothing

 

No. 456 August 1942

• Editorial: The Churches versus Socialism
• Quote: Great Men
• Here and Now: Gone—But Not Forgotten

 

No. 457 September 1942

• Birth Control and Unemployment
• Obituaries: Jim Peterson and Cde Hollingshead
• Production Solely For Use

 

No. 458 October 1942

• National Independence

 

No. 459 November 1942

• Obituary: H. E. Hutchins
• Can the Scramble for Markets be Ended?

 

No. 460 December 1942

• Are Socialists Dreamers?
• Book Reviews: New Publications

 

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1943

 

No. 461 January 1943*

• Editorial: What The Labour Party Proposes After The War
• Good Advice
• Suffer Little Children
• Notes By The Way: Should Coal Miners be Abolished?
• Work for Socialism (A Thought for the New Year)
• The Barbary Coast
• Rocky Foundations of the New World
• Inequality in Russia
• The Communists and Beveridge

 

No. 462 February 1943*

• Editorial: Who Pays For Wars?
• 1943—The War and the Workers
• The March From Rome – Part 1
• An Irish Problem in English Agriculture
• The Post-War World
• Progress and Reaction
• Is There a “Managerial” Revolution?

 

No. 463 March 1943*

• Editorial: The Doctrine of the Half-Loaf
• “Workers’ Revolutionary League” Please Note
• Party News: The “Daily Worker” and the S.P.G.B.
• New Light on the “New” World
• By The Way: Beveridge on Want—and Adventure
• An Employer’s View of the Beveridge Plan
• Socialism, What It Is Not—What It Is
• Socialism, Pacifism and Politics
• The March From Rome – Part 2
• Where Reformism Fails

 

No. 464 April 1943*

• Editorial: The Communists, the Labour Party, and Parliament
• Pocket History of the British Working Class
• Accumulation of wealth in Russia
• Why Lord Nuffield looks after the workers
• Letter: Socialists and Reforms
• Outdoor Propaganda: May
• No Unemployment After The War?
• The Growth of State Power
• Shall Capitalism Continue?
• The Workers’ Outlook

 

No. 465 May 1943*

• Editorial: On Keeping Things Dark
• Money in Diamonds
• Fairy Tales of the Future
• The Camera Cannot Lie
• Titbits From The I.L.P. Stewpot
• Contemptible Communist Propaganda Methods
• By The Way
• Fireside Reflections
• The Devil is Convalescing
• Inquest on the I.L.P.
• An Old Comrade Passes
• Same Old Shaw

 

No. 466 June 1943

• Film Review: The Happiest Man In The World
• Who Rules Britain?
• Is Russia Socialist?
• Inglorious End of the Comintern

 

No. 467 July 1943

• Looking Forward
• Unity or Disunity?
• Empire and Poverty

 

No. 468 August 1943*

• Capitalist “Socialism”–The Great Swindle of the Age
• The Rise and Fall of Mussolini
• The Fallacies of Joad
• Capitalism and the Socialist
• Bank for World Trade
• Work – the Only Hope
• Labour Leader’s Misconception About Socialism
• A Communist View of The S.P.G.B.
• The Origin and Growth of Nazism pt.1

 

No. 469 September 1943

• Party News: We Prepare For Action
• Leadership
• The Future Belongs To The Workers
• The Origin and Growth of Nazism pt.2

 

No. 470 October 1943

• Money and Socialism
• The Origin and Growth of Nazism pt.3

 

No. 471 November 1943

• Editorial: The ‘Paid Agitator’ Again
• Now That We Are All Capitalists: A Satirical Survey
• Religion and Reaction in Russia

 

No. 472 December 1943

• Socialism—or Barbarism
• The Rank and File
• The Black Hole of Calcutta

 

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1944

 

No. 473 January 1944*

• Our Message For 1944
• An Economist Misses Her Marx
• Working-Class Wives
• Notes By The Way: Acton by-election
• Shaw on Beveridge
• The Beveridge Plan
• Editorial: Postscript on Mosley
• That Word “Unity”

 

No. 474 February 1944

• Swan Song of the Communists
• The Docker’s Problems
• Soviet Millionaires

 

No. 475 March 1944

• Russia’s Transition
• The Art of Insurrection by the B.B.C.

 

No. 476 April 1944

• Editorial: Where Common Wealth Stands
• Miners and Leaders

 

No. 477 May 1944

• Turmoil in the Coalfield

 

No. 478 June 1944

• Editorial: The Scottish Workers’ Congress: Curious Stuff from Glasgow
• Death and Disablement in the Mines
• Concerning “A National Health Service”

 

No. 479 July 1944

• Party News: An Urgent Appeal
• No Half-Way House to Socialism

 

No. 480 August 1944

• Editorial: Unholy Deadlock in Soviet Russia
• Obituaries: G. Nyberg & Jack Butler
• Control: Remote or Direct?
• A Scotch Broth of Peculiar Composition

 

No. 481 September 1944

• Divide and Rule
• Editorial: The Evolution of Sir Stafford Cripps, The “Revolutionary”
• Death of Another Old Comrade
• Obituary: Comrade Jack Butler
• Confessions of a Labour Leader
• A Word From William Morris

 

No. 482 October 1944

• The Weakness of the Trotskyists
• The Coming Slump: Does the Gold Standard Matter?

 

No. 483 November 1944

• Party News: Common Wealth will not Debate
• Book Review: ‘The Day is Coming’

 

No. 484 December 1944*

• Editorial: Bad Advice From A Trade Union Leader
• Letter: The Cause of Crime
• By The Way: Give the Dogs a Thousand Lashes, Damme !
• Lights Up
• The Future of China
• Book Review: ‘The Poverty of the People in Australia’

 

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1945

 

No. 485 January 1945*

• Editorial: Tory-Labour Agreement On Capitalism
• War and Civil War — Who Are the Friends of Democracy?
• Wartime Reflections
• Book Review: Socialism and World Unity
• The Finest Flower of Capitalist Culture
• Superstition Still Taints Education
• Letter: Socialism and Constitutional Action
• A New Year — Forty Years Later
• The Future Is Yours To Mould

 

No. 486 February 1945

• Pamphlet Review: Old Fallacies Re-Furbished: Is Socialist Propaganda Futile?
• Benny
• Death of A. Kohn

 

No. 487 March 1945

• The Workers’ Internationals
• Welsh Workers See Storms Ahead

 

No. 488 April 1945

• Editorial: America Land of Millionaires and Poverty
• Party News: Glasgow Branch decides to contest election
• Trade Unions in the Post War Picture
• By The Way: Juries are Wiser To-day
• The ‘Friends’ of Scottish Workers

 

No. 489 May 1945

• May-Day — The Workers Must Choose

 

No. 490 June 1945

• So You Want To Be A Capitalist?

 

No. 491 July 1945

• Editorial: This Phoney Election
• Our Election Manifesto

 

No. 492 August 1945

• Editorial: A World That Changes But Remains The Same
• More Mechanisation
• By The Way: Atrocities
• A Shadow Falls Across the Capitalist World

 

No. 493 September 1945

• Editorial: Questions to Mr. Shinwell
• Notes On The Election
• Obituary: Death of Another Old Comrade
• Britain’s Third Labour Government

 

No. 494 October 1945

• The Labour Party and Strikes
• Hiroshima and After!

 

No. 495 November 1945

• Editorial: The Present State of the Trade Union Movement
• Austerity and Exports

 

No. 496 December 1945*

• Editorial: Some Facts About The Dock Strike
• Which Exploiting Regime—U.S.A. or U.S.S.R.?
• Party News: Donations To Party Funds
• Letter: The Change Over From Capitalism To Socialism
• Party News: Glasgow Branch Municipal Election Fund
• The Foreigners in Our Midst
• Religion, Ethics or Socialism
• Socialism and the Labour Party
• Fine Words
• Doctors are Wage Slaves
• The Demand for “Workers” Control

 

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1946

 

No. 497 January 1946

• Editorial: The Nationalisation of Cables and Wireless
• Obituaries: F. Kraske & Betty King
• The ‘Transition Period’

 

No. 498 February 1946*

• Is Stalin a Fabian? A Priority Claim by Bernard Shaw
• Other Days—Other Ways
• Censored News From Russia

 

No. 499 March 1946

• By The Way: The “Jolly Old Empire”
• Book Review: Slaves of the Farm U.S.A.
• The Workers’ Internationals
• The Withering Away of the State – From Marx to Stalin

 

No. 500 April 1946*

• Editorial: The Labour Government’s Prisons and Detention Barracks
• Party News: Erith Labour Party declines debate
• Letter: Is there a clear line of demarcation between Working Class and Capitalist Class?
• Is the gap between rich and poor narrowing?
• Party News: Camberwell Branch
• A Food Shortage in War and Peace
• Letter: Marx and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
• Wage Labour and Surplus Value
• Where Do They Go From Here?

 

No. 501 May 1946

• Editorial: The Friends of the Trade Unionist
• May Day—After The Shambles
• “An Enemy of Society”
• Workers’ Control ? ?

 

No. 502 June 1946

• History in the Making
• Party News: May Day Demonstration
• Russia and Democracy
• Professor Laski’s Secret
• Lord Keynes – Economist of Capitalism in Decline

 

No. 503 July 1946

• Victory Parade
• Book Review: Engels and Russia
• Russia and Democracy

 

No. 504 August 1946

• Are Scientists Free?
• Contradictions of Capitalism
• Party News: Appeal to Overseas Readers
• Notes by the Way: “You, too, can be a Capitalist”
• A Socialist Message to the Workers of All Lands

 

No. 505 September 1946

• Editorial: Newspaper Monopoly and the Freedom of the Press
• The Waning Status of the “Intellectual”

 

No. 506 October 1946

• Book Review: ‘Social Democracy Versus Communism’

 

No. 507 November 1946

• Conservatives in Conclave
• Obituary: Death of A. E. Jacomb
• Labourism Proposes – Capitalism Disposes
• William Morris and the Socialist movement

 

No. 508 December 1946*

• Editorial: The Slippery Slopes of Labourism
• War and Increased Production
• Whose Brains? A Question For Mr. J. R. Clynes
• The Last Hope of Humanity
• Endnotes
• A Labour M.P. Protests
• No Equality Under Capitalism
• North Paddington Gets Another Chance

 

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1947

 

No. 509 January 1947*

• Editorial: The American Miners’ Strike
• On The Air! Or In The Air?
• Book Review: Whither Arthur Koestler
• The Wrong Way
• Electoral Activity
• Notes by the Way: Emigrants to Australia
• The Nationalisation of the Railways

 

No. 510 February 1947*

• Editorial: Labour Government, Strikes and Arbitration
• Priority Imports
• The Economics of False Teeth
• Personalities or Principles?
• For Use or Profit?
• Laugh With Mr. Morrison
• Old King Coal in His Labour Robes

 

No. 511 March 1947

• The Changing Temper of the Workers
• Work Harder?
• Exchange Is No Robbery
• Socialism and Religion

 

No. 512 April 1947

• The Bleak Afterthoughts of a Labour Critic
• News items about other Labour Governments
• Socialism and Nationalisation by Paul Lafargue

 

No. 513 May 1947

• Editorial: Workers of All Lands Unite—But not with foreigners
• The Division of the Spoils
• Obituary: Death of L. Jones

 

No. 514 June 1947*

• Editorial: Conscription—A Contrast in Attitudes
• Work and Want: An Old Farce with New Players
• Cripps on wages—or hope deferred
• Food and Work
• Princesses and Piecans
• Book Review: Another Critic of Marx
• “A Century! Declared”
• Party News: Debate: Baxter backs out
• Party News Briefs
• The Capitalist Ethic: Don’t be a racketeer in a small way
• The Great “Work Harder” Mystery
• Short Story: The All-Mine Osaurs
• Inequality in Soviet Russia
• A Letter from a Glasgow Docker
• Work and Want: An Old Farce with New Players

 

No. 515 July 1947*

• Editorial: The Ways of Imperialisms
• Book Review: “The Anatomy of Peace”
• Notes by the Way: Peter Petroff on British State Capitalism
• Party News Briefs
• Dialectical Materialism
• The Labour Party Conference
• Tobacco For The Old ‘Uns
• Editorial: “The State Sweatshop”
• What Comes After The Labour Government?

 

No. 516 August 1947*

• Editorial: Two Worlds and What Divides Them
• A Battle Between Labour Leaders
• The Myth of May Day
• Of Memories and Managing Directors
• Book Review: An American Professor Looks at Marx
• What Price Racialism?
• Notes by the Way: Blood and Coal
• Party News Briefs
• Mr. Strachey provides food for thought
• Letters: Jerome K. Jerome
• Why Can’t We All Get Together

 

No. 517 September 1947

• Party News Briefs
• Gradualism and Revolution
• Prophetic Lines Addressed to the Worker From the Labour Government
• The Crisis: The Planners’ Swansong

 

No. 518 October 1947*

• Editorial: The Labour Party and Palestine
• “Stand Up To The Yanks”
• Party News Briefs
• Press Cuttings
• A Letter To An Irish Worker
• The Common Wealth Party and State Capitalism
• Time’s Little Joke !
• Blind Leaders
• Short Story: The Donkey Didn’t Complain
• What is a Spiv?
• The Grimethorpe Miners

 

No. 519 November 1947

• One of the Carrots
• To A New Reader
• From Comintern to Cominform

 

No. 520 December 1947

• A Party No Socialist Would Join
• Party News: Briefs
• Divide and Rule in India
• In the Sweet Bye and Bye

 

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1948

 

No. 521 January 1948

• Party News Briefs
• What does the German Social Democratic Party stand for to-day?
• Obituary: Prince Vallar

 

No. 522 February 1948

• The Wallace Case
• Party News Briefs
• Railway Nationalisation
• Money Must Go
• The Daily Worker and Lenin on Equal Pay
• In Commemoration of the Communist Manifesto

 

No. 523 March 1948

• Notes by the Way: You Have Heard This One Before
• Party News Briefs
• Socialism or Chaos
• The Labour Government Gets Tough with the Workers

 

No. 524 April 1948

• Editorial:The Railway Strike in Queensland
• Socialism or Barbarism
• Party News Briefs

 

No. 525 May 1948

• Party News: Annual Conference, 1948
• Party News Briefs
• Love, Marriage and Divorce In Russia
• Letters:The Outlook for Socialism
• Short Story: A Modern Parable

 

No. 526 June 1948

• Party News Briefs
• A Matter of Definition
• Palestine and its Problems
• The Finances of Nationalisation

 

No. 527 July 1948

• Party News Briefs
• Mr. Shaw and the Dictators
• Notes by the Way: Mr. Churchill won’t commit himself
• Book Review: ‘Labour Marches On’

 

No. 528 August 1948

• Must There Be A Transition Period?
• Book Review: The World’s Wealth
• Short Story: Holiday Meditation
• Party News Briefs
• Deep in the Heart of Texas
• The Trouble in Berlin
• Debate with Trotskyists: “Is Russia Capitalist?”

 

No. 529 September 1948

• Party News Briefs
• Note on Nationalisation
• War and Secret Diplomacy
• Churchill on War

 

No. 530 October 1948

• Letter: The Socialist Party and Reforms
• Party News Briefs
• Food for Thought
• The Taming of the T.U.C.

 

No. 531 November 1948

• Editorial: The Bitter Fruits of Nationalisation
• The “Unofficial” Strikers
• How Not To Save Democracy
• The Accumulation of Capital
• Party News Briefs

 

No. 532 December 1948

• Editorial: Nationalisation of Iron and Steel
• Just Once A Year
• Quote: A Policeman’s Club
• Bavaria Revisited
• Labour Government Lock-Out
• Party News Briefs

 

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1949

 

No. 533 January 1949

• Race-Prejudice in Washington D. C.
• Pamphlet Review: ‘The Russian Revolution – Its Origin and Outcome’
• A Letter From Ireland

 

No. 534 February 1949

• Letter: A Dissatisfied Reader
• Sports Results
• The King-Makers of King Street

 

No. 535 March 1949

• Editorial: May Day in Hyde Park
• Hoo R Ower Dumm Frenz?
• Saints and Sinners

 

No. 536 April 1949

• Housewives: Let Us Face the Future
• The First of The Few
• Debate on the Labour Party
• Socialism – A Communist Definition

 

No. 537 May 1949

• Dublin Letter
• Doctor’s Dilemma
• Short Story: ‘If I Had a Go’

 

No. 538 June 1949

• Debate With Conservatives
• “It Makes Your ‘Eart Bleed”
• Cripps on Crises

 

No. 539 July 1949

• The Founding of The Socialist Party of Ireland
• The Radio War
• Short Story: Wadya Know

 

No. 540 August 1949

• Editorial: The Attitude of the London Dockers
• General Election, 1950
• The Dispute at the London Docks
• Death of a Clown
• Book Review: ‘Lost Illusion’

 

No. 541 September 1949

• It’s Laughable
• Another Fake Goes West!
• Ourselves and the Conservatives

 

No. 542 October 1949

• The Old Order Reigneth Not
• Workers on the Defensive

 

No. 543 November 1949

• Editorial: The Devaluation of the Labour Party
• Raw Recruits
• Party News: From The Eastern Front
• The People You Meet: No. 1 – Gilbert

 

No. 544 December 1949

• Pounds, Dollars and Poverty
• The Purpose of Devaluation
• Book Reviews: Into the Crystal Ball
• Too Much of a Good Thing
• The People You Meet: No. 2 – Punchy

 

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