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ENGELS AND THE HAND OF HISTORY

The BBC recently carried an article on the stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi...

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Featured, Socialism

BECOMING A SOCIALIST

Are you a socialist? To be a socialist in a world deformed by nationalism and religion, scarred by political ignorance...

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War and Conflict

Gaza, Iran and Capitalism:  Forever Wars in the Middle East

Following the massacre of Israelis by the terrorist organisation known as Hamas on October 7, 2023, the Israeli government set...

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Political Analysis

The Crisis: Capitalism’s Stranglehold on the UK Labour Government

Learning From History We republish this article from the Socialist Standard, some fifty years ago, because it highlights the problems...

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Socialism

Making Socialists

Introduction In ‘Road to Wigan Pier’, which was published in 1937, George Orwell claimed that: ‘The real Socialist writers…have always...

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Capitalism Explained

Maurice Saatchi on Capitalism and Marx

In 1978 unemployment was high with 1.6 million workers unemployed. The Tories used the advertising firm Saatchi and Saatchi to...

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