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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*

• The Balkans and the Black International
• The Coming Struggle for Trade
• The Way to Peace
• How can Hitlerism be destroyed?
• This Month’s Quotation: R. H. Tawney
• “Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens”
• Socialism and Snob Values
• Press Cuttings
• Answers to Correspondents
• A Tribunal Judge Clears the Air
• Obituary: Death of Comrade A. Jacobs
• Price of pamphlets

 

No. 427 March 1940*

• Editorial: Democracy and Understanding: Should We Leave Politics To The “Intelligent Minority”?
• Fallacies of Federal Union
• This Month’s Quotation: Marshal Foch
• A Bourgeois on Marxism”
• The Ides of March
• Why Economise?
• Your Gods, O Israel. An Open Letter to the Rank and File of the Labour Party
• The New Czardom
• Press Cuttings
• Party News: Our Propaganda in War Time
• Obituary: Comrade A. S. Collinson
• Obituary: Comrade W. Veal
• Appeal for Donations

 

No. 428 April 1940*

• The Importance of Marxism
• Editorial: An Echo from the Crimean War
• This Month’s Quotation: Karl Kautsky
• The Downfall of Dictatorship
• Oil and War
• The Fallacies of Federal Union (continued)
• The Croupiers and the Faro Wheel
• Press Cuttings
• I.L.P. Refuses Debate

 

No. 429 May 1940*

• May Day : Bedlam Let Loose
• Whose Idea was the “Graf Spee”?
• This Month’s Quotation: Socialist
• Is it a new I.L.P.?
• Capitalist Federation or International Socialism?
• Thyssen and a Federal Germany
• A Mad World
• The Importance of Marxism—(continued)

 

No. 430 June 1940*

• The Labour Party Enters the National Government
• How will the Defence Regulations be used?
• The New Defence Regulations
• This Month’s Quotation: Professor G. D. Herron
• New Phases of the War—What Will Italy Do?
• Lansbury: A Figure of the Past
• The Importance of Marxism—(continued)
• Book Review: Stalin — Three Portraits
• Looking Back and Looking Forward
• The Lie
• The Great Nazi Fraud
• Everything and Everybody
• What We Have Said for Over Twenty Years
• The cancelled debate with Mr. Bradley

 

No. 431 July 1940*

• Editorial: The “Socialist Standard” in War-Time
• Italy and the Peasant Problem
• This Month’s Quotation: Richard Rumbold
• The Importance of Marxism—(continued)
• Stupidus and Sapiens
• Socialism’s Invicible Ally. Ever-changing Society
• Terms and Terminological Inexactitudes
• War and Work
• The Civil Service in Imperial Rome
• A quotation from Buckle

 

No. 432 August 1940*

• Editorial: Federal Europe or Internationalism
• The Shape of Things to Come—and the Forces That Will Shape Them
• This Month’s Quotation: H. G. Wells
• Karl Marx by Frederick Engels
• How Henry Ford Smashes Trade Unions
• On Leaders
• The Importance of Marxism—(continued)
• Socialism, Dictatorship and Democracy

 

No. 433 September 1940*

• The Death of Trotsky
• Editorial: An Offence to Destroy Food—But only in War-Time
• Editorial: Men of Moscow
• The importance of Marxism—(continued)
• Dictatorship and Democracy in the Ancient World
• The Materialist Conception of History
• Notes by the Way: Liberty, no in Equality, Fraternity
• The “Daily Worker” writes about its Former Hero
• This Month’s Quotation: H. G. Wells
• To Readers of the “Socialist Standard”
• Party Speaker fined
• Appeal for donations

 

No. 434 October 1940*

• Roumanian Ripples
• Editorial: What They Say About Socialism
• This Month’s Quotation: Henry David Thoreau
• Notes By the Way
• Planning for After the War
• The Capitalist Class To-day
• A Problem in Historical Materialism : by Karl Kautsky
• War: Methods of Offence and Defence
• Dictatorship and Democracy in the Ancient World
• Buckle on War and Religion

 

No. 435 November 1940*

• Editorial: Blessings!
• In the Front Line
• This Month’s Quotation: Frederick the Great
• Reflections in War Time
• Notes By the Way
• Religion, War and Nazism
• Sir Richard Acland in a Muddle
• War: Methods of Offence and Defence (Continued)
• Incentive Under Socialism

 

No. 436 December 1940*

• Why Not Socialism? A Question to Mr. Bevin
• Wages and Human Needs
• Important People
• “Forward” and the National Government
• The People’s Convention
• War: Methods of Offence and Defence (continued)
• Notes By the Way
• 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
• The Interesting Case of Sir Richard Acland, M.P.
• This Month’s Quotation: Charlie Chaplin
• Notes By the Way
• No Compromise
• So Much Alike!
• Strange Champions of Socialism
• The Flimsy Basis of Race Prejudice
• Capitalist Rewards and Responsibilities. Is the Worker Free?
• The Mixed Blessing of Big Canadian Wheat Harvests
• Sacrifice and the Influence of Money
• “S.S.” difficulties
• Appeal for the “Socialist Standard”

 

No. 438 February 1941*

• Editorial: The Suppression of the ‘Daily Worker’
• Book Review: Marxism and Democracy (Laurat)
• This Month’s Quotation: Wilhelm Liebknecht
• Greatness and Crime
• War: Methods of Offence and Defence
• Notes of the Month
• A Task For 1941
• Party News: Our Difficulty is Your Opportunity
• The Post-War Mirage
• Straws

 

No. 439 March 1941*

• This Month’s Quotation: Wilhelm Liebknecht
• More about the People’s Convention
• No Socialism After the War. Reassuring America
• Notes By the Way
• Two Quotations About Marx
• A Financial Expert and Socialism
• War: Methods of Offence and Defence
• “Uproot it !”
• Reviews
• Press Cuttings
• War, Conscription and the Workers
• Special Offer: Back Numbers of “The Socialist Standard”

 

No. 440 April 1941*

• Can there be Freedom of the Press?
• Editorial: B.B.C. Boycott of Socialists
• This Month’s Quotation: Socialist
• Pamphlet Review: “Black Record” (Vansittart)
• Industrial Conscription in Russia
• Is Bernard Shaw a Judge of Socialism ?
• The Roots of Capitalism
• Today and Tomorrow
• Did Hitler say that ?
• Plekhanov’s “Anarchism and Socialism”: A Correction
• 12 Page “Socialist Standard”

 

No. 441 May 1941*

• A Vision of the Post-War World
• A Message for Irish Workers
• This Month’s Quotation: Karl Marx
• What the Soldier Wants and How to Get it
• Balkan Bubbles
• Notes By the Way
• Socialism—More Than Equality
• Press Cuttings
• Party News: Our Head Office. Bombed !

 

No. 442 June 1941*

• Looking Forward. The conflict in Perspective
• Editorial: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hess
• This Month’s Quotation: Gerrard Winstanley
• The Goal of the Class Conscious
• Put Not Your Trust in Commissars
• It Also Happened a Long Time Ago
• The Judgment of Joad
• Notes By the Way
• Tit-bits from the Capitalist Stewpot
• The Overfed and the Under-nourished
• Press Cuttings

 

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
• Post-War Reconstruction
• This Month’s Quotation: William Morris
• Ye Who Reap Shall Also Sow
• Notes By The Way
• Press Cuttings
• Not According to Plan
• The Impermanence of Reform
• What a Conservative M.P. Thought of the Labour Party and Sir Stafford Cripps
• Tit-Bits from the Press
• Our new Head Office

 

No. 445 September 1941*

• Democracy—Fact or Slogan?
• The Peace Settlement : Back to 1815 or on to Socialism?
• This Month’s Quotation: J. F. Bray
• A Glance Backward — and Forward
• Socialism Will Forge Ahead
• Hopes and Fears for Democracy
• Where Are We ?
• Synthetic Socialism
• Where Did They Get Their Wealth ?
• Notes By The Way
• Mr. Pollitt again
• Tit-Bits from the Press
• A Tribute from the I.L.P.
• Think on these things
• Two and two make—?
• Party News: News From The U.S.A.
• Party News: “Two Years”
• Obituary: Eva Torf Judd

 

No. 446 October 1941*

• A Few Words on the Atlantic Charter
• This Month’s Quotation: Lewis Henry Morgan
• Will Family Allowances Cure Poverty?
• Mr. Keynes Goes to the Bank of England
• Reconstruction: A Lesson from the Last War
• An Open Letter to the “Elementary” Teacher
• Unity After The War. The Repeal of the Trade Dispites Act
• The S.L.P. and the Formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920
• From the “Socialist Standard,” Sept. and Oct., 1904
• Tit-Bits from the Press

 

No. 447 November 1941*

• Science, Capitalism and the New Order
• News from New Zealand
• This Month’s Quotation: Benjamin Franklin
• “Equal Sacrifice”
• Work of National Importance
• Hew to the Line
• Notes By the Way
• Straws
• Letter: Are Cheap Imports a Concern of the Workers?
• Book Review: Poverty and Food
• From the Socialist Standard, November, 1904
• Obituary: Kitty Gostick
• The Western Socialist
• Copies of pamphlet wanted

 

No. 448 December 1941*

• Work for Socialism—Now !
• Must Socialism Wait for the Last Hottentot?
• The Problem of India
• 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?
• Communists Support for Conservative Candidates
• Is Capitalism a “Conspiracy”?

 

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1942

 

No. 449 January 1942*

• The New Year—A New World?
• Who Are Responsible for Defence Weaknesses?
• Prophecies on the Outcome of the War
• Science and the Future
• The Passing of the Communist Party
• The S.L.P. and Formation of the Communist Party, 1920
• Notes By The Way
• Film Review: A Common Belief
• Answers to Correspondents
• A Vile Game
• From the “Socialist Standard”, December 1904
• Speakers for Trade Union meetings

 

No. 450 February 1942*

• Who Are the Revolutionaries?
• Capitalism and Monopoly. Davids who did not slay Goliath
• Trade relations after the war
• Notes By the Way
• Review: The Philosophy of Anarchism (Herbert Read)
• Is the Mind a Myth?
• National Insurance. The Wonderful World of Pensions for All
• A Spotlight on the Searchlight
• 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
• The Forgotten Man in India
• The Reality Doesm’t Enthuse
• Reform or Revolution
• Party Notes amd News
• Noblesse Oblige

 

No. 454 June 1942*

• Population and Social Progress
• The Future of Political Parties
• The Labour Party and Socialism
• Will the Workers Learn?
• Book Review: The Plight of the Merchant Seaman
• Japanese Background

 

No. 455 July 1942*

• We Are World Changers
• Human Nature, the Black Market and Socialism
• The Labour Party and Socialism (concluded)
• If We Are To Survive
• The Planners of Capitalism
• More new leaders for old
• James Brindley and the Duke of Bridgewater
• The S.L.P. Still prefers to say nothing

 

No. 456 August 1942*

• A Challenge to Mr. Bevin on Post-War Reconstruction
• Editorial: The Churches versus Socialism
• What Means This Strife?
• If We Are To Survive (concluded)
• The Death Penalty in Soviet Russia
• Quote: Great Men
• Here and Now: Gone—But Not Forgotten

 

No. 457 September 1942*

• War, Peace and Profits
• Catholic Social Principles at Work
• Birth Control and Unemployment
• Notes By the Way
• Production Solely For Use
• Troubles of the Post-War World
• Obituaries: Jim Peterson and Cde Hollingshead
• Clippings
• “Austerity” at the Kremlin
• On Labour Leadership
• Winter classes at Head Office

 

No. 458 October 1942*

• National Independence
• The Worker and his Work
• Book Review: “The Spoil of Europe”
• Another Idol Gone
• Is Disunity Hindering Socialist Propaganda?
• The Plight of the Merchant Seaman
• The Death Penalty in Soviet Russia
• “Austerity at the Kremin” : an explanation

 

No. 459 November 1942*

• Twenty Years On !
• The Ugly Reality of Indian Nationalism
• China takes up the White Man’s Burden
• Can the Scramble for Markets be Ended?
• A Labour Leader Who Misreads the Signs of the Times
• A Christian Party
• Are We “Proud” of our class?
• The Unemployed are Tough
• Soviet Socialism
• Obituary: H. E. Hutchins

 

No. 460 December 1942*

• Some Socialist points on the Beveridge Report
• Anticipating Beveridge
• Did you listen to Smuts?
• Can Labour govern?
• Are Socialists Dreamers?
• War and Health
• The Reward of Honest Industry
• Book Reviews: New Publications
• Socialist Capitalists and Capitalist-Minded Workers
• Good News for Shareholders
• This Means You !

 

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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
• Left-wing illusions
• Capitalism Cramps the Clipper
• Unity: A misdirected fable
• The rewards of absistence

 

No. 467 July 1943*

• Empire and Poverty
• Trade Unions in Wartime—and After
• Beveridge deals with the Birth Rate
• Is Russia Socialist (Concluded)
• Looking Forward
• Unity or Disunity?
• Homes for Heroes-Deferred
• Babies on the Assembly Line

 

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*

• The Future Belongs To The Workers
• The Post Office Workers and the Trade Disputes Act
• Party News: We Prepare For Action
• Leadership
• Poverty
• A Bishop on Birth Control
• The Origin and Growth of Nazism pt.2
• Review—”Our Towns—A Close-up”
• Book Review: Duff and David

 

No. 470 October 1943*

• Workers’ Houses in the Next Ten Years
• Rifts in the Atlantic Charter
• Money and Socialism
• The Origin and Growth of Nazism pt.3
• With or Without Comment

 

No. 471 November 1943*

• The Coal Crisis, Conscription and the Future
• Editorial: The ‘Paid Agitator’ Again
• Now That We Are All Capitalists: A Satirical Survey
• Religion and Reaction in Russia
• A Critic of Marx’s Economic Theories
• With and Without Comment

 

No. 472 December 1943*

• The Black Hole of Calcutta
• War and the International Outlook
• A Critic of Marx’s Economic Theories—concluded
• Socialism—or Barbarism
• The Rank and File
• Mr. Priestley does not understand
• This Interesting World
• Whose Idea was the Magnetic Mine ?

 

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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
• A danger light on the horizon
• The Docker’s Problems
• Soviet Millionaires
• More nonsense on Marx (review of “To the Finland Station”)
• A modern fairy tale: Palace in Blunderland
• A new way to cure strikes

 

No. 475 March 1944*

• The Lady with the Lamp
• Fabian Fallacies, or the Sorrows of Bernard Shaw
• Russia’s Transition
• Marx’s Economic Theories
• The Art of Insurrection by the B.B.C.
• Why Bother About the Burma Road?
• Provincial Organisers’ Fund

 

No. 476 April 1944*

• Storm over Shipping
• Editorial: Where Common Wealth Stands
• Miners and Leaders
• Compromise leads to catastrophe
• Review: “The Transition From War to Peace” (Pigou)
• Malthus to Hitler—or Marx
• World Trade Plans
• The Beveridge Plan—for Saving Capitalism

 

No. 477 May 1944*

• May Day reflections
• The new anti-strike Order
• Turmoil in the Coalfield
• The international basis of Socialism
• When the war drums throb no longer
• Socialism and Crime
• “Daily Worker” Unity Conference
• Quotes

 

No. 478 June 1944*

• Houses off the Conveyor Belt
• A Plea for Sanity in a Mad World
• Socialism & the Agitation for Freedom of Speech & Organisation
• The Scottish Workers’ Congress: Curious Stuff from Glasgow
• Death and Disablement in the Mines
• Concerning “A National Health Service”
• Tory Reform—The Old, Old Story
• The Scented Spray of Capitalist Propaganda
• Nationalisation, Socialism and Unemployment
• Forty Years—Lest We Forget
• Co-operators decline a debate

 

No. 479 July 1944*

• No Half-Way House to Socialism
• No Socialism in Saskatchewan
• British rule and Indian misery
• Sir John Anderson is very unhappy
• The Irish General Election
• The cause of crime
• By the Way
• “Good Homes to Live in”—if you can afford them
• Party News: An Urgent Appeal

 

No. 480 August 1944*

• The Economic Foundations of Ill-Health
• Editorial: Unholy Deadlock in Soviet Russia
• Will there be a third World-War?
• The Trade Union Movement must face the issue
• The Enemies in our Midst
• Control: Remote or Direct?
• A Scotch Broth of Peculiar Composition
• By the Way
• Russia’s Capitalist Progress
• Obituaries: G. Nyberg & Jack Butler

 

No. 481 September 1944*

• Divide and Rule
• Editorial: The Evolution of Sir Stafford Cripps, The “Revolutionary”
• The Workers and Education
• Pollitt Forgets the Past
• North Africa, Italy and Capitalism
• By the Way
• From the Cradle to the Grave
• ‘Philanthropy’ An Asset to the Capitalist
• Death of Another Old Comrade
• Obituary: Comrade Jack Butler
• Confessions of a Labour Leader
• A Word From William Morris

 

No. 482 October 1944*

• The Coming Slump: Does the Gold Standard Matter?
• Armies of Liberation
• Capitalist Progress Leaves the Worker behind
• The Weakness of the Trotskyists
• By the Way
• On a holiday

 

No. 483 November 1944*

• Is Increased Production the Solution?
• Trade Union Congress re-affirms its Belief in Capitalism
• Political Ideas and Class Interests: A Glance at Argentina
• What should Women do to be Free?
• “Something Worse Than War”
• Why Some Employers Favour a Forty-Hour Week
• Party News: Common Wealth will not Debate
• Book Review: ‘The Day is Coming’
• A Change in the Catholic Attitude to Russia?
• “Irish Freedom” declines our advertisements

 

No. 484 December 1944*

• Editorial: Bad Advice From A Trade Union Leader
• Letter: The Cause of Crime
• By The Way
• 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*

• Those Who Fish in Troubled Waters
• What to do with the World’s Frontiers?
• A Study in Social Importance
• By the Way
• Pamphlet Review: Old Fallacies Re-Furbished: Is Socialist Propaganda Futile?
• Benny
• Death of A. Kohn

 

No. 487 March 1945*

• Welsh Workers See Storms Ahead
• Looking Back and Looking Forward
• Do We Need a Bigger Population?
• The Workers’ Internationals
• New Leagues for Old
• By the Way
• The Bogey Man

 

No. 488 April 1945*

• Is this the last war?
• Editorial: America Land of Millionaires and Poverty
• Party News: Glasgow Branch decides to contest election
• Trade Unions in the Post War Picture
• How Socialism “works”
• By The Way: Juries are Wiser To-day
• The cause of crime
• The ‘Friends’ of Scottish Workers
• Racket led Geo. Heath to his death
• Herrenvolk in South Africa

 

No. 489 May 1945*

• May-Day — The Workers Must Choose
• The passing of a capitalist “Great Man”
• Full Employment
• The I.L.P.—A Study in Political Futility
• They’d like us all to be social ostriches
• Vegetarianism, Capitalism and Socialism
• By The Way
• The S.P.G.B. and Leaders
• Our Annual Conference

 

No. 490 June 1945*

• Victory and then what?
• The Misreporters of the Capitalist Press
• A Glance at San Francisco
• Atrocities—Cynical Ruling Class Attitude
• The “Victory” Election & Our Parliamentary Campaign
• So You Want To Be A Capitalist?
• Further Meanderings of G. B. Shaw
• The Dennis O’Neill Case
• The Facts about Working Class Savings

 

No. 491 July 1945*

• Our Election Manifesto
• Editorial: This Phoney Election
• Figures and Facts
• 100 Years of Reforms
• By the Way
• The Yellow Peril
• How They Dealt with the Election Paper Ration
• Parliamentary Fund

 

No. 492 August 1945*

• A Shadow Falls Across the Capitalist World
• Editorial: A World That Changes But Remains The Same
• Our Election Manifesto and Leaflets
• Only Socialism Will Abolish War
• Socialism and the Housing Problem
• Capitalism Cannot Cure Unemployment
• War and Humanity
• More Mechanisation
• By The Way: Atrocities
• North Paddington Election

 

No. 493 September 1945*

• Britain’s Third Labour Government
• Editorial: Questions to Mr. Shinwell
• Notes On The Election
• Prblems Facing the Labour Government. The Menace of Unemployment
• Our Indian Sisters
• Letter: Is Socialist Propaganda futile?

 

No. 494 October 1945*

• The Labour Party and Strikes
• Heartbreak House. The swindle of Nationalisation
• The Labour Party Programme: Let Us Face the Future
• Hiroshima and After!
• A Journey through Dreamland
• “King of the Castle”
• What is a Realistic Attitude for the 
Working Class?
• The plundering of Haiti

 

No. 495 November 1945*

• A call to bolster capitalism: Cripps appeals to the workers
• Editorial: The Present State of the Trade Union Movement
• By the Way
• Trade Union dissensions in Eire
• A new social revolution
• Austerity and Exports
• Letter: The simple life under Socialism
• “Democracy” in the Russian Army

 

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*

• Full Employment? Another Labour Party Fallacy
• Editorial: The Nationalisation of Cables and Wireless
• The trouble in dockland. By a Dock Worker
• The ‘Transition Period’
• The compensation of Bank of England stockholders
• Answers to a correspondent (Critique of Gotha Programme)
• The nationalisation of mining royalties
• Work directions to stay
• “Socialism” for the City
• The crime wave
• Obituaries: F. Kraske & Betty King

 

No. 498 February 1946*

• Labour Foreign Minister Bevin and his Predecessors
• Editorial: The American Loan and the Gold Standard
• Workers and the State
• Is Stalin a Fabian? A Priority Claim by Bernard Shaw
• Working class — who isn’t?
• Other Days—Other Ways
• Censored News From Russia
• Russian Foreign Policy
• By the Way

 

No. 499 March 1946*

• Is This What Labour Voters Wanted? A World Made Safe for Investors
• Editorial: Capitalism and the food shortage
• The Withering Away of the State – From Marx to Stalin
• The World To-Day — A Socialist Survey
• By The Way
• Answer to a correspondent: Religion and Socialism
• Book Review: Slaves of the Farm U.S.A.
• “Nationalisation or Socialism?”

 

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*

• May Day—After The Shambles
• Editorial: The Friends of the Trade Unionist
• How to Stop War: Mr. Churchill’s Suggestions Examined
• The Role of the Church in Strikes
• “An Enemy of Society”
• Workers’ Control ? ?
• Book review: Uncensored News and Views on Russia
• Letter: Hours of Work in Socialism

 

No. 502 June 1946*

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

 

No. 503 July 1946*

• Victory Parade
• Editorial: The spectre at the Labour Party Conference/a>
• The bear on the rampage
• By the Way
• Book Review: Engels and Russia
• “Money Must Go”: A review
• The coal owners and the clergy

 

No. 504 August 1946*

• Are Scientists Free?
• Editorial: Palestine, the Arabs and the Zionists
• Mr. Brown goes to town
• Contradictions of Capitalism
• Notes by the Way: “You, too, can be a Capitalist”
• A Socialist Message to the Workers of All Lands
• The Power of the Radio
• Party News: Appeal to Overseas Readers

 

No. 505 September 1946*

• The Waning Status of the “Intellectual”
• Editorial: Newspaper Monopoly and the Freedom of the Press
• Oil and the Arab world
• “Money Must Go”: Letter from the authors
• Notes by the Way

 

No. 506 October 1946*

• Book Review: ‘Social Democracy Versus Communism’ [Kautsky]
• Editorial: Trade Unions on the Rocks
• “Rake’s Progress” (Political Version)
• Communist slogans for Capitalism
• Mr. Thurtle misfires
• Muddled Thinking of a Labour Leader

 

No. 507 November 1946*

• The emerging world scene
• Labourism Proposes – Capitalism Disposes
• Conservatives in Conclave
• Obituary: Death of A. E. Jacomb
• William Morris and the Socialist movement
• North Paddington bye-election

 

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
• Editorial: Manpower and the Crisis
• New Zealand — A Socialist country?
• Work Harder?
• Exchange Is No Robbery
• Socialism and Religion
• The Town and Country Planning Bill
• “St. Moritz and Miners”
• Peaceful preparations
• Nationalisation news
• Delay in publication

 

No. 512 April 1947*

• The Bleak Afterthoughts of a Labour Critic
• Editorial: The Powers and their Armed Forces
• Socialism and Nationalisation by Paul Lafargue
• Inflation
• Something for Nothing
• Housing in Merry Sweden
• News items about other Labour Governments
• Capitalist View of Workers’ Sport
• May Day rallies

 

No. 513 May 1947*

• Mirthless May Day. The Workers and their Future
• Editorial: Workers of All Lands Unite—But not with foreigners
• Notes by the Way
• On the Materialist Conception of Histoy
• The Division of the Spoils
• The Slave’s Awakening
• Poor but Respectable
• Who Will Do the Dirty Work?
• The North Paddington Vote
• The Annual Conference
• Party News Briefs
• Public debate
• 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*

• The Crisis: The Planners’ Swansong
• Editorial: Labour “fiddles” with the Cost of Living
• Dr. Sweezy on Marx’s theories
• Gradualism and Revolution
• Notes by the Way
• Humour most foul
• Prophetic Lines Addressed to the Worker From the Labour Government
• Party News Briefs
• Money Must Come In. Our Crisis

 

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*

• Tories in search of a policy
• Editorial: From Comintern to Cominform
• Have pity on them
• Fascism again?
• Russian Gold
• Postal censorship—An Old and Respected English Custom
• One of the Carrots
• To A New Reader
• Press cuttings
• KIngston Branch: Debate with Revolutionary Communist Party
• More about funds

 

No. 520 December 1947*

• In the Sweet Bye and Bye
• Divide and Rule in India
• A Fabian and his Fabianism
• Medical Economics
• Boom and bust
• Notes by the Way
• A Party No Socialist Would Join
• Party News: Briefs

 

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1948

 

No. 521 January 1948*

• What is Socialism?
• Editorial: Russia also juggles with finance
• A feeble criticism of Marx
• The Gravesend by-election by Eye Witness
• What does the German Social Democratic Party stand for to-day?
• Juvenile delinquency
• Notes by the Way
• What Bernard Shaw thought 60 years ago
• Effect of the Russian Government’s currency changes
• The Russian Church and its money
• Press cuttings
• Party News Briefs
• Obituary: Prince Vallar

 

No. 522 February 1948*

• In Commemoration of the Communist Manifesto
• The Daily Worker and Lenin on Equal Pay
• Stanley Baldwin: Bluff Squire or Shrewd Politician
• The Wallace Case
• Mitres and Miracles
• Money Will Go
• A Socialist’s Reflections on Atomic Energy
• Party News Briefs
• Railway Nationalisation

 

No. 523 March 1948*

• The Labour Government Gets Tough with the Workers
• Editorial: The concealed aim of the Communist Party
• The Red Prussian
• Under false colours
• Power! Atomic or Political?
• Socialism or Chaos
• Medical Economics
• Notes by the Way
• Party News Briefs
• “Mazeppa”

 

No. 524 April 1948*

• Socialism or Barbarism
• Editorial:The Railway Strike in Queensland
• Editorial: Foreign Loans and Investments
• Russian Imperialism
• Notes by the Way
• Work, You Workers, Work
• White Papers and Black Records
• Harry Barber and the Fortunate Thieves
• Party News Briefs
• More funds needed

 

No. 525 May 1948*

• Our Message for May Day, 1948
• Editorial: The Budget
• Love, Marriage and Divorce In Russia
• Alberta Calling—and the Socialist Reply
• Notes by the Way
• Letters:The Outlook for Socialism
• Short Story: A Modern Parable
• Party News: Annual Conference, 1948
• A letter from Vienna
• Party News Briefs
• “The Third Way” by Wilfred Wellock. A Review

 

No. 526 June 1948*

• Palestine and its Problems
• Editorial: What the Labour Government planned to do
• The Finances of Nationalisation
• Notes by the Way
• Death takes a holiday-on a small scale
• A Matter of Definition
• Mitres and Miracles
• Socialism and “Human Nature”
• Party News Briefs

 

No. 527 July 1948*

• Mr. Shaw and the Dictators
• The Communists and Palestine
• The Great Radio Drive
• Party News Briefs
• Abolish the expoiting mechanism
• Notes by the Way: Mr. Churchill won’t commit himself
• The Escape to Freedom
• Book Review: ‘Labour Marches On’

 

No. 528 August 1948*

• The Trouble in Berlin
• Editorial: The Dock Strike and the Emergency Powers Act
• Behind the gathering war clouds
• Must There Be A Transition Period?
• Notes by the Way
• …Beggar Man, Thief
• Deep in the Heart of Texas
• Letter: Money Will Go
• Book Review: The World’s Wealth
• Short Story: Holiday Meditation
• Party News Briefs
• Debate with Trotskyists: “Is Russia Capitalist?”

 

No. 529 September 1948*

• War and Secret Diplomacy
• Editorial: The struggle or oil
• The over-population myth
• Foreign Trade and the Workers
• Roundabouts
• Christianity and Capitalism
• Note on Nationalisation
• Mitres and Miracles
• Churchill on War
• Party News Briefs

 

No. 530 October 1948*

• The Taming of the T.U.C.
• Editorial: Break-up of the Trade Union International?
• Will “The Last Hottentot” hold us back?
• Notes by the Way
• Food for Thought
• Towards an understanding of Anarchism—An Essay in irony
• We can’t both have it !
• Letter: The Socialist Party and Reforms
• Party News Briefs

 

No. 531 November 1948*

• Abolish the Cause of War
• Editorial: The Bitter Fruits of Nationalisation
• The “Unofficial” Strikers
• How Not To Save Democracy
• Old tales retold
• Notes by the Way
• The Passing Show
• The Accumulation of Capital
• A personal statement (Lord Amwell)
• Party News Briefs
• Mixing the drinks

 

No. 532 December 1948*

• Just Once A Year
• Editorial: Nationalisation of Iron and Steel
• The National Health Service
• Letter: Capitalism was necessary
• Another Anti-War Committee. Why the S.P.G.B. will not join in
• Notes by the Way
• Bavaria Revisited
• Labour Government Lock-Out
• “. . . And too dear”
• Cheaper food — less wages
• Common ownership of jumble sales
• Party News Briefs
• Quote: A Policeman’s Club
• [“Some make Big Stuff …”]

 

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1949

 

No. 533 January 1949*

• Faint Hope for the Homeless. The Housing Targets Shrink
• Editorial: The Communists and Religion
• The Coal Board and the Investor
• Race-Prejudice in Washington D. C.
• The Lysenko controversy
• A Letter From Ireland
• Psychologist’s dilemma
• Pamphlet Review: ‘The Russian Revolution – Its Origin and Outcome’
• Party News Briefs
• No Fraternisation—Not even on the Football Field
• Progress, Indeed

 

No. 534 February 1949*

• Busman’s half-holiday
• Editorial: The doubled-headed ass. Two Voices of the Labour Party
• Ought We To Join United Front Campaigns?
• Socialism the only path to Peace
• Sports Results
• The King-Makers of King Street
• Letter: A Dissatisfied Reader
• Letter: How should Socialists vote at elections?
• Party News Briefs

 

No. 535 March 1949*

• Trade Unions and the Next Slump. Are We Backwoodsmen?
• Editorial: May Day in Hyde Park
• Editorial: Some forgotten Communist Party policies
• Are We Utopians
• Notes by the Way
• Saints and Sinners
• Something odd from Edinburgh
• The Building Workers Bonus (Housing)
• Capitalism
• Hoo R Ower Dumm Frenz?
• Party News Briefs

 

No. 536 April 1949*

• The First of The Few
• Editorial: The balance of trade delusion
• The Austrian Social Democratic Party
• The Domain of Sterilities [review of book by Walsby]
• Housewives: Let Us Face the Future
• The film crisis
• Debate on the Labour Party
• Socialism – A Communist Definition
• The Privy Council
• Notes by the Way
• Party News Briefs

 

No. 537 May 1949

• Dublin Letter
• Doctor’s Dilemma
• Short Story: ‘If I Had a Go’
• Labour Government in New Zealand

 

No. 538 June 1949

• Cripps on Crises
• Debate With Conservatives
• “It Makes Your ‘Eart Bleed”
• Is this to be our lot?

 

No. 539 July 1949*

• The Nemesis of Labour Government
• Editorial: This Age of Discontent
• Editorial: Private Ownership in Russian Agriculture
• The Class Struggle in India
• Just a few more contradictions
• The Founding of The Socialist Party of Ireland
• The Radio War
• Notes by the Way
• Reported in Hansard
• The Blind Will Yet See
• Short Story: Wadya Know
• Letter: Will Socialism Work?
• Party News Briefs

 

No. 540 August 1949*

• The Dispute at the London Docks
• Editorial: The Attitude of the London Dockers
• The Emergency Regulations in the Dock Dispute
• You and the General Election
• General Election, 1950
• Some implications of Socialism
• Notes by the Way
• Reported in Hansard
• Those noble slogans
• Nature study—the Cuckoo
• Death of a Clown
• Passing Thoughts
• Landlords and capitalists
• Book Review: ‘Lost Illusion’
• Propaganda notes
• Party News Briefs

 

No. 541 September 1949

• Ourselves and the Conservatives
• Editorial: Slimmer shop assistants
• Notes by the Way
• Another Fake Goes West!
• Something for the troops
• It’s Laughable
• Pity the poor planners
• Twice-told tales
• Lest you forget
• Preparing for war again
• Back to health—or back to work
• Reported in Hansard

 

No. 542 October 1949*

• Workers on the Defensive
• Editorial: A black future for the miners
• The Last Refuge
• Democracy undefended
• Report on the Press
• Notes by the Way
• Problem children
• “Fiesta.” — An essay in futility
• Suffer Little Children
• The Old Order Reigneth Not
• Party news briefs

 

No. 543 November 1949*

• Should the workers strike?
• Editorial: The Devaluation of the Labour Party
• Notes by the Way
• As the election approaches
• The National Health Service
• Hunger and plenty
• Communist cakes and ale
• A Tory joins the Communist Party
• Raw Recruits
• Truth will out
• The People You Meet: No. 1 – Gilbert
• Two useful books
• Party news briefs
• Party News: From The Eastern Front
• You too can help
• The purport of war

 

No. 544 December 1949*

• Labour Party trouble with the Co-operatives
• Editorial: No socialist theories in the Labour Party
• Pounds, Dollars and Poverty
• The Purpose of Devaluation
• Leadership and Lenin
• The Russian capitalist class
• Notes by the Way
• Too Much of a Good Thing
• In search of a policy
• Story for children—The Three Gardens
• The People You Meet: No. 2 – Punchy
• “More spectres haunting Europe”
• Reported in Hansard
• Book Reviews: Into the Crystal Ball
• Party News Briefs
• The Coal Board and targets

 

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