{"id":240832,"date":"2023-02-24T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?page_id=240832"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:07:23","slug":"socialist-standard-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_239813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239813\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-239813 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SS-FirstEdition-sepia-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SS-FirstEdition-sepia-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SS-FirstEdition-sepia-1-600x888.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SS-FirstEdition-sepia-1.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First edition, September 1904<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/subscriptions\/\">Subscribe to the Standard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/3-free-standards\/\">Order 3 free Standards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:spgb.sspc.ed@worldsocialism.org\">Submit an article or letter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/standard-archives\/\">Socialist Standard index of articles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/2026\/\">2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/2025\/\">2025<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/2024\/\">2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/2023\/\">2023<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/2022\/\">2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/2021\/\">2021<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The\u00a0<em><strong>Socialist Standard<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a monthly\u00a0socialist\u00a0newspaper published without interruption since 1904 by the\u00a0Socialist Party of Great Britain. The newspaper is written in a simple, direct style and focuses mainly on socialist advocacy and\u00a0Marxian\u00a0analysis of current events, particularly those affecting the\u00a0United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>It was placed on a secret list of papers and magazines banned for export during\u00a0World War I, for its call for workers to refuse to fight for their countries and instead join the class war. In 1915 it published an article written by a member of the Bolshevik party calling for a socialist solution to the war.<\/p>\n<p>In 1918, however, the paper voiced the first doubts of the SPGB regarding<a title=\"The Revolution in Russia: Where it fails\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard\/1910s\/1918\/no-168-august-1918\/the-revolution-in-russia-where-it-fails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160201 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/August-1918.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/August-1918.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/August-1918-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a> the\u00a0Bolshevik Revolution\u00a0in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1930s it drew on the reports from\u00a0Spain\u00a0to produce articles on the looming menace of aerial warfare. In World War II\u00a0the magazine evaded the censor largely by producing a series of articles on the\u00a0Peloponnesian\u00a0and similar ancient wars as a cover for the Party&#8217;s opposition to the current one.<\/p>\n<p>The SPGB maintains that it is not a left-wing organisation nor its journal, the <em>Socialist Standard<\/em> a left-wing journal. &#8216;Left-wing&#8217;, it contends, has simply become an umbrella designation for protest groups and organisations demanding amendments and reforms to capitalism. The SPGB and the World Socialist Movement (with which the SPGB is associated) contrary to the views and aspirations of these myriad groups and organisations that would claim to be left-wing, affirms that capitalism is incapable of meaningful reform; that quintessentially the basis of the exploitation of the working class is the wages\/money system.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-153378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3Free.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3Free.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3Free-300x122.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to the Standard Order 3 free Standards Submit an article or letter Socialist Standard index of articles 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 &nbsp; The\u00a0Socialist Standard\u00a0is a monthly\u00a0socialist\u00a0newspaper published without interruption since 1904 by the\u00a0Socialist Party of Great Britain. The newspaper is written in a simple, direct style and focuses mainly on socialist advocacy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/socialist-standard-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Socialist Standard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2605,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-240832","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240832"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251028,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/240832\/revisions\/251028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}