Just Another Day. A short story about planned obsolescence, free market ideology and everyday interactions.
A short story about planned obsolescence, free market ideology and everyday interactions. Written by Hud and taken from the September 2025 edition of The Socialist Standard.World Socialist Radio is th...
1 Sep 202516min
Introducing The Socialist Party
The Socialist Party and the World Socialist Movement affirm that capitalism is incapable of meaningful change in the interests of the majority; that the basis of exploitation is the wages/money system...
25 Aug 20253min
Book Review: Raising the Red Flag. Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism 1884-1921. By Tony Collins
Taken from the July 2025 edition of The Socialist Standard.Walter Kendall advanced the view that Bolshevism-Leninism was something that was alien to the formally democratic traditions of the working c...
18 Aug 202511min
Capitalism Is Mental
Capitalism is not just a class war; it is a war of the mind. It demands conformity, punishes difference, and uses trauma as a tool of control. Still, resistance keeps bubbling up. Neurodivergent peopl...
11 Aug 20259min
Bad Apples - Technological innovation, market competition, and the profit motive
Apple have always been known for being control freakish and attempting to lock their customer base into their own exclusive ecosystem, including a special patent-protected charging cable that no one e...
4 Aug 20259min
Reeves, Marx and Mosbacher. Cooking The Books – July 2025
The Spending Revue:Governments can’t control the way that the capitalist economy works. They can, however, decide how they are going to spend the money that they have or plan to have. This is the annu...
28 Jul 202510min
Vanguards, Get Lost
A criticism of modern-day would be vanguard parties, and a comparison of the vanguardist position with what Marx actually wrote. From the July 2025 edition of The Socialist Standard.Featuring music: '...
20 Jul 20254min
Farage – Opportunist Supreme
With characteristic opportunism, Nigel Farage, sniffing political power, is seeking to present himself as the leader of a kind of neo-Labour Party who will fix everything Labour has always promised to...
14 Jul 202511min
