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1930

 

No. 305 January 1930*

• Editorial: Labour Party’s Main Plank Gone
• Obituary: Death of a Comrade
• How To Get Rich
• Aspects of the “Woman Question”
• Answer to a Correspondent: Socialism and the Gold Standard
• Party News
• A Look Round
• Peace Upon Earth . . . And How To Get It
• The Socialist Labour Party Runs Away
• Socialism and Art
• Death of a ‘Hero’
• Dictatorship or Democracy

 

No. 306 February 1930*

• What is behind the Naval Conference?
• Editorial: The Socialist Movement in Other Countries
• How not to get Socialism
• The results of rationalisation
• A Look Round
• A Labour Party Promise and a Capitalist Admission
• Shall We Praise the Lord?
• Tugan-Baranowsky’s Criticism of Marx(
• Answer to Correspondent. Bank Loans and Deposits
• Party Activities

 

No. 307 March 1930*

• Editorial: The Priests and Politics
• Groan with the Bishop
• Answer to a Correspondent: Is there Socialism in Russia?
• Answer to a Correspondent: What is Socialism?
• Answer To Correspondents: “Bank Loans and Deposits”
• Do You Know?
• Karl Marx On The Suffrage
• The Labour Party and The City
• Party News: SPGB Meetings
• The Fallacy of Empire Free Trade
• Socialism and the Economic “Experts”
• Life and Laughter
• Communist Rowdies
• The Paris Commune
• Socialism in Sheffield: The Recent By-election

 

No. 308 April 1930*

• What Price Nationalisation?
• Editorial: The Uselessness of Reforms
• Socialism and Violence
• Economic and Political organisation
• A Look Round
• Brotherly Love in the U.S.A.
• Marx Among the Classics
• Is the ‘Manual’ Worker the Only ‘Producer’?
• The Decay of Religion
• Socialism and Psychology
• Classes, but not class antangonism
• Our circulation
• Death of a Comrade
• Gift to Library

 

No. 309 May 1930*

• Editorial: Remember Belgium!
• To New Readers
• Choose Your Job — And Get Rich
• Tolstoy On Work
• Party News: A Debate (with J.T.Murphy of CPGB)
• Book Review: Socialism vs. Nationalism
• Karl Marx on Christianity
• Received For Review
• Book Review: The Workers’ Share
• Points for Propagandists: Whose Savings?
• Labour Party Leaders Make Unemployment
• Book Review: A Commentary on the Communist Manifesto
• Book Review: Portrait of the Labour Party

 

No. 310 June 1930*

• Why the Communists Have Failed – Parrot Disease
• Editorials: Secret Diplomacy. The Power to Produce
• Pull up the Blinds
• A Knight out
• Minds and Muddle
• Points for Propagandists
• Answers to Correspondents
• Book Review: ‘Imperialism and World Economy’ [Bukharin]

 

No. 311 July 1930*

• Will Independence Help India?
• Editorial: What the Labour Government has done
• What rationalisation means to the workers
• The Cloak of Religion
• The “New” Socialism
• Mr. J.H. Thomas and the Unemployed
• Can We Get Socialism Through Parliament?
• The Illusions of Sir Oswald Mosley
• A Look Round
• Answers to Correspondents: Is Christianity “fizzing out”?
• [Notes]
• Hull Branch

 

No. 312 August 1930*

• Socialism and Birth Control.
• Book Review: Lessons From Trotsky’s Life Story: A Dictator Denounces Dictatorship
• Parliament or Soviet
• Notes by the Way: Laski’s Error
• Police Spies and the Communist Movement
• The forces making for Socialism
• “The Socialist”
• Party News: Edinburgh
• Appeal for funds

 

No. 313 September 1930*

• Russia: Land of High Profits
• Editorial: Labour Government’s Solution
• The Great Lie
• “Capital” Going Abroad
• Notes by the Way
• Points for Propagandists
• A Socialist Searchlight
• Letter: The case for Spiritualism
• Letter: Economic Questions
• Letter: The Pay of Civil Servants
• Party News: Paddington To The Fore

 

No. 314 October 1930*

• The Profit-Sharing Snare. Co-partnership Schemes Exposed
• Editorial: Lessons from the German elections
• Women’s Freedom
• Jesus and Economics. Dean Inge on Marx
• Studies in Economic Fallacy
• A Socialist Searchlight: Where Are The “Reds” of Yesteryear?
• Canadian Notes
• Party News: Party Activities
• Answers to Correspondents

 

No. 315 November 1930*

• International Organisation
• Editorial: The Labour Government and Socialism
• Ramsay McDonald and the “Great War”
• Marx, Lenin and Industrial Unionism
• Can the workers understand Socialism?
• Who Owns “Our” Country?
• Miners and Airmen. A Contrast in Tragedies
• Spiritualism
• Answers to Correspondents
• Party News: Another Step Forward

 

No. 316 December 1930*

• What The Socialist Party Stands For
• Editorial: Wages Under Labour Government
• Light on Soviet Russia
• Parliament or Soviet: A Reply to the ‘Proletarian’ (U.S.A)
• The French Socialist-Communist Party
• A Socialist Searchlight
• How to Study Socialism
• An Important Event
• Answers to Correspondents

 

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1931

 

No. 317 January 1931*

• Editorial: The Labour Party Drops Its Programme
• The Futility of Compromise
• Industrial Unionism
• Party News: SPGB Meetings
• Is a Gold Shortage the Cause of Unemployment?
• A Question to Non-Members
• The I.L.P. and The German Independent Socialist Party
• The Tyneside Communist Collapse
• A Winter’s Tale
• Must Wages Come Down?
• Einstein Discusses Socialism

 

No. 318 February 1931*

• Why Socialists Oppose Family Allowances
• What the Cotton Lock-out Means
• The Bankruptcy of Liberalism
• The Socialist Party and the Trade Unions
• “Too Much Wealth In The World”
• Currency, Credit and Socialism
• The Socialist Forum: Socialism By Dictatorship
• The Socialist Forum: Socialism and Equality
• The Socialist Forum: Should we contest elections?
• Letter: Socialist Organisation
• Letter: Is steel more useful than tobacco?
• Letter: Are workers worse off?
• The Workers’ Socialist Party (U.S.A.)
• Our readers and the next General Election
• Activities in West Ham: Labour Party Shirks Debates

 

No. 319 March 1931*

• The Case Against The ‘Living Wage’
• Editorial: The Labour Party’s Thirty-One Years
• A Diary of Labour Government
• Under the Southern Cross. A Letter fom Australia
• How the Fascists Gained Power
• Pity the Poor Capitalist
• What is Capital?
• The Socialist Forum
• A Cock-Eyed World: Some Items From The Press

 

No. 320 April 1931*

• The Mosley Party. Old Fallacies Re-Furbished.
• Editorial: A Red Herring
• Machines in Offices. A Call to Clerical Workers
• A Socialist Searchlight
• The Socialist Forum
• Book Review: Psychology and Socialism
• Socialists and the Communist Party
• Poem: ‘The People’
• The Fall of Riazanov
• Is Russia to blame?

 

No. 321 May 1931*

• Socialism and Social Reforms
• Editorial: The Labour Party Drops Nationalisation
• England’s Prosperity—India’s Poverty
• Civil Servants and Bonus Cuts
• A Socialist Searchlight
• The Socialist Forum
• Obituary: Comrade MacHaffie

 

No. 322 June 1931*

• What is the Class Struggle?
• Editorial: The Labour Party’s Budget
• India To-day
• The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party
• A Socialist Searchlight
• Political and Economic Organisation: Some Common Objections Answered
• Why Socialism is inevitable. The Marxian view
• Answer to a Correspondent: Are there Socialists in Parliament?

 

No. 323 July 1931*

• The Economic Crisis and the Workers
• Editorial: Russian Illusions
• Lives and Profits
• Emancipation or Palliation?
• The Socialist Party versus The New Party
• A Socialist Searchlight
• The Socialist Forum
• Socialism v. Co-operation

 

No. 324 August 1931*

• Editorial: The German Crisis
• Letter: A New Reader Asks Some Questions
• Letters: The Socialist Forum: The Value of Emotional Appeals
• Party News: Movements Abroad
• The Socialist Party and War
• A Tribute From An Unexpected Quarter
• A Great Thought for Today
• The Socialist Party v. The Communist Party – A Debate
• Brutal Attack on A Speaker

 

No. 325 September 1931*

• Editorial: The Great Fiasco: Contemptible ‘Labour’ Government
• Letters: Answers To Correspondents
• Letters: The Socialist Forum
• Letter: A Criticism from a Ruskin College student
• Party News: An Appeal For Funds
• The Founding of The Socialist Party
• A Socialist Searchlight
• Rationalisation In Agriculture
• What the I.L.P. Have Done for the Workers
• Equality and the Wages System

 

No. 326 October 1931*

• Labour Party and the Crisis
• Editorial: The Gold Standard and the Workers
• The Communists and the Labour Party. How Moscow Helped MacDonald
• The Founding of the Socialist Party – Part 2
• The Socialist Forum: Are the Workers Robbed?
• The Socialist Forum: Should Socialists compromise?
• A Socialist Searchlight. Mr. Maxton Gives A Date
• Mr. Bromley day by day

 

No. 327 November 1931*

• Do We Need A Five-Year Plan?
• Editorial: Sound and Fury. The Election and the Workers
• General Election, 1931
• The Gold Standard and the Crisis
• Ought We to Back the “Left-Wing” Labour Leaders?
• Socialism for Great Britain only
• Party News: A Word To Sympathisers

 

No. 328 December 1931*

• The Basis of Socialist Organisation. A Lesson of the Election
• Editorial: Futilities & Tragedies
• Are We Wrong About Capitalist Crises?
• Book Review: “The House of Industry”
• The Socialist Forum
• Pillars of the State
• Overproduction Baffles the Capitalists.
• Rationalising the petrol industry

 

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1932

 

No. 329 January 1932*

• Socialism and the Tariff Issue
• Editorial: The Prospect of the Future
• The Trouble in the Post Office
• The Gold Standard and the Crisis
• A Letter to a Worker
• An Apostle of Public Ownership
• The Socialist Forum
• Notes by the Way
• Newcastle-on-Tyne

 

No. 330 February 1932*

• “The Hell of Steyr” (From an Austrian Correspondent)
• Editorial: The Rent Strike Stunt
• Atheism, Religion and Socialism
• Capitalism’s Crises: Well-known Communist Discovers Marx
• Russia and the Social Revolution
• A Promising Movement in France
• The Socialist Forum
• The Causes of a Fall in Prices
• A Booklet about the Gold Standard
• The Enormous Unemployment in France
• ‘Jack London and Socialism’
• Mr. Clifford Allen on the Lust for Power

 

No. 331 March 1932*

• The Importance of Parliament
• Editorial: Bunglers at Work
• A Debate with the I.L.P.
• War and the Workers. Reflections on the Eastern Crisis
• Answers to Questions. Did Marx Contradict Himself?
• Mr. Walton Newbold Makes a Confession
• Are We Practical?

 

No. 332 April 1932*

• Briand: A Lesson in Leadership
• Editorial: Our 28th Annual Conference
• Marx and a Professor
• A debate with the I.L.P. [Continued]
• Notes by the Way
• The Socialist Forum: Can Russian Peasants be Industrialised?
• The Socialist Forum: Engels and Minority Action
• The Socialist Forum: The Programme of the Russian Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries
• The Socialist Forum: Some Questions about Gold

 

No. 333 May 1932*

• Kreuger: A Product of His Time
• Editorial: State Control of Banks
• The Cause of the Crisis
• Free Trade and Protection
• Socialists and the Labour Party
• Socialism and Industrial Organisation
• Letter: Who Are the Inventors? How the Capitalists “Save”
• America and the War
• The Ford Bubble Pricked

 

No. 334 June 1932*

• The Backward Countries. A Problem for Socialist Policy
• Editorial: The Campaign for Inflation. A Workers’ Delusion
• American Notes
• Marx and Dictatorship
• Another Communist Leader Walks the Plank
• Notes by the Way
• The Socialist Forum: Parliament and the Bankers
• The Socialist Forum: The S.P.G.B., Trade Unions and Unemployed Organisations
• The Socialist Forum: A Question about Zionism
• Some questions about Socialist policy
• Silly rivalry

 

No. 335 July 1932*

• The Capitalist Never Learns
• Editorial: About Ourselves
• The Position of the Workers
• The Outlook for Socialism in Russia
• The Proposed Socialist Party of India
• The Need to Control Parliament
• The Socialist Attitude to Reforms

 

No. 336 August 1932*

• The German situation
• Unemployment and the Remedy
• The Capitalist Never Learns – Part 2
• Who Are The Fatalists?
• Is It A New I.L.P.?
• Socialists and War
• Social contrasts
• Lest we forget

 

No. 337 September 1932*

• Editorial: The Breaking Up of the I.L.P.
• A Literary Man on Labour Leaders
• A Fabian on Marx
• SPGB Meetings
• The Intellectuals and Marx
• Notes by the Way: Circumstances Alter Cases. A Communist Slogan for England Only.
• Letter: Socialist Action in Parliament, Etc.
• Letter: Marx and Dictatorship
• Party News: A New Pamphlet in Preparation
• Do You Like Coffee?
• The Truth About the Co-operative
• Movement
• Book Review: “Darkness at Noon”
• The Time For Action: A Letter to a Young Socialist
• The Campaign-Against Prohibition in the U.S.A.

 

No 338 October 1932*

• The Flimsy Bond of Nationalism
• Editorial: The Boll Weevil Lets Us Down
• Editorial: Lord Wolmer and Socialism
• The Coming Election in the U.S.A.
• Australian Labour Leaders
• Notes by the Way
• Matters underground
• A Little Talk about our Innards
• Confusion in British Columbia
• Wages in Germany
• Mr. Middleton Murry Protests
• Answers to Correspondents
• Correction: “The Truth about the Co-operative Movement”
• [Party News]

 

No. 339 November 1932*

• The Labour Party Conference
• Editorial: The Steam and the Safety Valve. Limits of Unemployed Demonstrations
• A Word to the Unemployed
• Snowden’s Goodbye
• Capital
• York and Ottawa
• The Dispute in the Textile Trades
• Notes by the Way
• Notes by the Way: One for the Currency Cranks
• Scraps from the Press
• A Pamphlet which Misses its Mark
• Socialists and “Doing Nothing”
• Answers to Correspondents
• A Letter from Mr. Walton Newbold
• The Communist Party Shirks Debate
• An Englishman’s Home !
• Pioneers, Oh Pioneers!

 

No. 340 December 1932*

• The Coming New Prosperity in America
• Editorial. Shorter Hours No Cure for Unemployment
• Editorial. Mussolini: The Reality behind the Shadow
• Notes by the Way
• Railway Rationalization and Profits
• “Common Ownership”: Ourselves v. The Labour Party
• Roosevelt and the American Workers
• Machinery and Socialism
• Producing and Paying
• Will Politics Do Good?
• A “Marxist” with a Heart Attack
• The Scottish Season
• Demands which Have Not Effective Backing
• Socialism and Industrial Unionism
• A Mad World
• Death Takes Away Another Old Comrade
• Newcastle-on-Tyne and Gateshead

 

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1933

 

No 341 January 1933*

• The Housing Problem. The Socialist View
• Notes By The Way: The Depression not Due to Gold Shortage
• The Christian Church & Feudalism
• Foreign Debt and the Workers
• Short Story: A 1932 Memory
• Debates: the S.P.G.B. versus The Tory Party
• Debates: The S.P.G.B. versus the I.L.P.
• Book Review: The Reorganisation of the State

 

No. 342 February 1933

• Notes by the Way: “Self Made” Men: An American Myth Exploded
• The Reward of Invention
• Marx and the Labour Party
• Technocracy: Old Fallacies in a New Disguise
• Marxism and Russia
• How to Make Socialists: Lenin’s View

 

No. 343 March 1933

• A Challenge to the Socialist Party of America
• Karl Marx — An Appreciation
• Activities at Home and Abroad

 

No. 344 April 1933*

• The Meaning of Class Consciousness
• The Rise of Hitler: A Warning to the Workers
• Notes on Industry
• Here and There
• The Passing of Eduard Bernstein
• The German Communist Party
• The Use of Trade Unions and 
Strikes
• Hard Times in the Peerage
• The Socialist Forum: Socialism and Toleration
• The Socialist Forum: Communism and Socialism
• Socialist Forum: Russia’s Bondholders
• Book Review: ‘The Decline and Fall of The Labour Party’
• How to get to Head Office

 

No. 345 May 1933*

• Russia: the land tht did not abolish unemployment
• Socialism and Working Class Unity
• America and Haiti
• A May Day Message
• Socialism and Charity
• The Douglas Scheme pt.1
• What Stalin Forgot To Mention
• War and the Workers
• Socialism Inevitable
• Crime: Its Cause and Cure
• Debate.S.P.G.B. versus The Communist Party
• The Meaning of Exploitation
• What would the S.P.G.B. Do If ….?
• Our Annual Conference

 

No. 346 June 1933

• Without Comment
• The Douglas Scheme pt.2
• Hot Heads and Hitlerism: Some Observations on Unity

 

No. 347 July 1933

• Editorial: Newspapers and Politics
• Lloyd George Has a Brain Wave
• Debate: S.P.G.B. versus The Communist Party
• The Douglas Scheme pt.3
• On understanding Marx

 

No. 348 August 1933

• Editorial: The Friends of the Russian Government
• Mr. Lansbury’s Solicitude for the Capitalists
• Letter: Socialists and Membership of the Labour Party
• Provincial Propaganda Tour

 

No. 349 September 1933

• Let Brotherly Love and Tithes Continue
• Marxism a Virile “Ghost.” (Continued)
• The I.L.P. and Ourselves
• “Middle Class” Wage-Slaves
• Unemployed Workers on the Continent
• Do Social Reforms Kill Socialism?
• Death of Two Comrades

 

No. 350 October 1933

• Words and Men—Part 1
• Some Questions on Economics
• A Reader Discovers a Mare’s Nest
• Pamphlet Review

 

No. 351 November 1933

• Words and Men—Part 2
• Who Dictates to the Dictators?
• Parliament and the Constitution

 

No. 352 December 1933

• Editorial: Hitler and Marx
• “We are all Socialists Now”
• Words and Men—Part 3
• The Hoary Illusions of Youth
• Death of Comrade F. Cudlip
• Letters: Socialism and Red Shirt
• Book Reviews: ‘Karl Marx’, & ‘Lenin’

 

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1934

 

No. 353 January 1934

• Words and Men—Part 4
• Meeting of Party Speakers
• Party News: Debate with a “Douglas Credit Association” (New Zealand)
• Bolshevism: Past and Present

 

No. 354 February 1934

• Words and Men—Part 5
• Death of Another Comrade
• The Uselessness of ‘Practical Politics’
• This Money Business
• “Attack”
• Marxism and the Labour Party: Dr. Eismann Replies

 

No. 355 March 1934

• Editorial: Woe to The Vanquished
• The Problem of the Small Shopkeeper
• Austrian Workers’ Tragic Heroism

 

No. 356 April 1934*

• The Labour Party and the London County Council
• Editorial: A Few Words on Fascism
• William Morris 1834-1896
• The Mirage in Spain
• The Materialist Conception of History (Engels letter)
• American Reformists in Difficulties
• Dr. Eismann’s Last Word
• Democratic control
• Welcome to a New Socialist Journal
• Book Review: ‘Hyde Park Orator’
• “The Plebs Atlas”
• Waiing for Something to Turn Up

 

No. 357 May 1934

• Forty Wasted Years: Three Labour Leaders Look Back
• Our Message for May Day and Every Day
• Obituary: Charlie Barnes
• The Situation in Italy – Is Fascism Cracking?
• Too Old at Twenty-Nine

 

No. 358 June 1934*

• Marx: According to Humpty-Dumpty
• The disintegration of the I.L.P.
• Roosevelt’s “New Deal”
• Canada’s White Hope—the C.C.F.
• The Purpose of Socialist Organisation
• Snapshots
• Socialism, the King and the House of Lords
• Answers to Correspondents

 

No. 359 July 1934

• Editorial: Reason or Violence
• The Labour Theory of Value Before Karl Marx
• An Engineer in Blunderland
• Book Review: Another “Life” of Marx

 

No. 360 August 1934*

• Editorial: The German Slaughterhouse
• SPGB Open Air Meetings
• The Church and Slums
• Letter: This “Age of Plenty”
• Letter: “The Great God Waste”
• Suicidal Glory
• Dangers of Leadership
• William Morris Quotations
• More About Roosevelt’s “New Deal”
• Letters: Fascists and Communists
• Book Review: ‘Preparing for Power’
• Party News

 

No. 361 September 1934

• Editorial: No More War?
• Human Nature?
• Some Observations on Production and Productivity
• Changing Russia

 

No. 362 October 1934

• Editorial: Trade Unionists in
• Conclave
• Stepping Stones
• Forgotten Objections to Socialism
• Book Review: Marx’s Letters to Kugelmann

 

No. 363 November 1934

• Editorial: 1904 -1934
• and Progressing
• Letter: The S.L.P. and the Conduct of Meetings.
• What They Were Fighting For
• Woe to the Victors
• Poor Little —
• The Match that did not bring the Explosion

 

No. 364 December 1934

• Bradlaugh’s Slanders
• on Marx
• The Reward of Genius
• Russian “Gold Rush.”
• Attacks on Religion
• Are You a Slave?
• The Chief Task of our Times
• Debate: Labour Party and S.P.G.B.

 

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1935

 

No. 365 January 1935

• Editorial: Reflections for the New Year
• The Sedition Act
• Book Review: How Christians Awoke to the Slaughter

 

No. 366 February 1935

• Editorial: Flaming Folly in the Saar
• Marx on Force
• The Coming Struggle in India

 

No. 367 March 1935*

• The Peace Ballot and the League of Nations
• Editorial: A Monopolist Scheme for Control
• Capitalism and Speculation
• War ! Aldous Huxley Psychoanalysed
• Lecture notes: The French Revolution
• Lecture notes: The Paris Commune
• Christ as a Capitalist
• Letters: A Letter from a Former Communist
• Marx and the “Blackcoats”
• Notes by the Way

 

No. 368 April 1935

• Editorial: Mussolini’s “Corporative State” Jest
• Politics and Party Funds
• The Socialist Party of Australia: A Splendid Election Fight
• A Book for Students of Currency Problems
• Debate with Fascist pt.1

 

No. 369 May 1935

• Editorial: Our Annual Conference
• Hauling Down the Colours in Russia
• Debate with Fascist pt.2

 

No. 370 June 1935

• Editorial: Peace—in Principle
• Straws: A Rotten Case
• Women’s Freedom
• Should the Workers Buy up Capitalism
• Dr. Edwin Cannan

 

No. 371 July 1935

• Editorial: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
• Straws: In Oil
• Party News: New Premises
• Enthusiasm in Sheffield
• This “Honours” Business

 

No. 372 August 1935

• Editorial: Labour Party Dissensions
• Answer to Correspondents
• The S.P.G.B. and the Bolshevik Seizure of Power in 1917
• Book Review: ‘How to Make a Revolution’
• Major Douglas in Alberta
• Pawns in Abyssinia

 

No. 373 September 1935

• The Jews and Racial Purity
• Editorial: The Class Struggle
• The Present Condition of Italy
• Straws: Drifting Whither?
• Obituary: The Passing of Another Old Member
• The Green Line Strike

 

No. 374 October 1935

• Editorial: Let the Capitalists Fight their Own Wars
• The Greater War

 

No. 375 November 1935

• Editorial: Tenth Betrayal of the Working Class 1904-1935
• The Labour Party Conference
• Party News: Educational Visits
• Where Mussolini Learned Brutality
• General Election, November, 1935
• Party News: Educational Visits
• Result of the Election
• Book Review: Labour’s Way to Disaster

 

No. 376 December 1935*

• Editorial: Who is the Enemy?
• An Invitation to Lord Beaverbrook
• This Month’s Quotation: Lord Lytton
• Justice for the Miners
• The Vanoculation of “Vanoc II”
• Election Brevities
• Marx on Piecework
• To Sympathisers
• The Press and the Election
• Sailors Don’t Matter
• Election Lessons for Socialists
• Propaganda Paragraphs
• Henderson the Peacemaker
• Letters: A Mistaken Notion
• Mine Accidents and Compensation: A Correction

 

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1936

 

No. 377 January 1936

• A Letter from Russia
• Book Review: Engels on Housing
• Book Review: ‘Labour’s Way to Use the Land’
• Can the Means Test be Abolished?

 

No. 378 February 1936

• Editorial: Quins, Quads and Poverty
• Pamphlet Review: The British Labour Movement
• Book Review: A Chapter on Dialectical Materialism
• Bolshevism and the Third International

 

No. 379 March 1936

• Editorial: “Socialism” Everywhere
• Book Review: A Chapter on Dialectical Materialism – Part 2
• Book Review: “Labour’s Way with the Commonwealth.”
• Book Review: ‘Frederick Engels – A Biography’

 

No. 380 April 1936*

• Editorial: No Class-Struggle Here
• Morrison’s Child
• Letter: Socialists and the Labour Party
• Letter: The Policy of the Half-Loaf is Unworkable
• The United Front
• The War Situation: From the Rhine to Abyssinia
• Notes By The Way: “The Daily Express” Star Performer
• Communists!
• Party News: SPGB Notices
• Book Review: Soviet Capitalism
• The “Haves” and “Have-Nots”
• The King’s Question Answered

 

No. 381 May 1936

• The Partnership of Marx and Engels
• May Day Musings: The Tragedy of Demonstrations
• Obituary: Death of Miss Lechmere
• No Banks Under Socialism

 

No. 382 June 1936*

• Editorial: Why the Budget does not Matter
• Notes by the Way: Workers, Beware! All Your Property is at Stake!
• SPGB Outdoor Propaganda Meetings
• A Trouble-Saver for Communists
• Answers to Correspondents
• Book Review: Marxism — The Philosophy of Action
• Here and There: Harry Pollitt
• Book review: “The Distribution of National Capital”
• Book Review: Letters from Prison
• The United Front in France

 

No. 383 July 1936

• Editorial: Do Budget Leakages Matter?
• Letters to the Editors: Why Not Join the Labour Party?

 

No. 384 August 1936

• Letter: Socialists and War
• Party News: Week-End School
• Does Genius Come from Unhappiness?
• Book Review: Excursions of “Vanoc II”
• Socialists Do Stand for Equality
• Socialists and Pacts with Capitalist Parties
• All Aboard for ‘Progress’

 

No. 385 September 1936

• Editorial: The Truth About the Popular Front
• The Mining Disaster
• The Lesson of the Russian Trial
• The Civil War in Spain

 

No. 386 October 1936

• Lady Eden’s Appeal, and Ours
• The Russian “Terrorist” Trial

 

No. 387 November 1936

• The S.P.G.B. and Trotsky
• Socialists and the Crown
• Poem: “A World to Win”
• Capitalism as Seen from the Air
• What to Do About Fascism

 

No. 388 December 1936*

• The Coming Triumph of Socialism
• Editorial: Atrocities in Spain
• Here and there
• Fattening Up the Lambs for the Slaughter
• An Ancient Russian Custom
• Book Review: ‘I Took off My Tie’
• Book Review: Marx on Trade Unions
• Letter: The Workers and the Empire
• Letter: The S.P.G.B. and Fascism
• Letter: Dictatorship and Parliament
• Letter: A Socialist Policy for Local Government Elections
• Letters: Classless Society
• Answers to correspondents
• Glasgow
• New Premises Fund
• This month’s quotation

 

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1937

 

No 389 January 1937

• Leaders and the Led by Rosa Luxemburg
• Puppet Kings and Labour Prudes
• What Newspapers Did Not Tel
• Book Review: ‘The Correspondence of Marx and Engels’
• The New Russian Constitution

 

No. 390 February 1937*

• Editorial: The Popular Front: A False Issue
• The Beginning and Ending of the Wages System
• They Hide the Truth
• Letter: Is Socialism Possible?
• Some Lessons from Spain
• What is Patriotism?
• Party News: Our Parliamentary Fund
• Here and There: Colonel Blimps
• Is It War?
• The Labour Government in New Zealand—No Change
• A Question for Members of the Labour Party

 

No. 391 March 1937

• The Socialist Party versus The Labour Party
• Party News: The Freedom of the Press!
• The Greatest City in the Capitalist World
• What is Wrong with Russia? The Mystery of the Trials

 

No. 392 April 1937*

• Is Democracy Worth While?
• Is Another Slump on te Way?
• Marx’s Address for the International, 1864
• For Students of Socialism
• Hamilton. Offer of a Free Copy of “The Socialist Standard”
• The Passing of Comrade F. Maby
• The Sit-down Strikes in America
• Notes by the Way
• Prospets in the Professions
• This Prosperity !
• It Stands
• This month’s quotation
• Lewisham branch

 

No. 393 May 1937

• May Day, 1937–A Warning
• Marx’s Address for the International, 1864
• Death Of An American Comrade
• Letters: Two Readers Write about the Russian Trials
• The SPGB and Spain

 

No. 394 June 1937

• The Reason for the Russian Trial
• The Passing of Snowden
• Life in Soviet Russia

 

No. 395 July 1937

• Death Of An Australian Comrade
• A Communist Leader and the Right to Strike
• Roads To Socialism
• The Tragedy of Middle Age
• Which Way Russia?

 

No. 396 August 1937

• Party News: Parliamentary Activity
• Pamphlet Review: Facts for Socialists
• Marxism and Dictatorship
• The Specialist Disease
• G. B. Shaw as a Guide to Socialism

 

No. 397 September 1937

• Party News: East Ham, North
• Divide and Rule in Palestine
• Why there is Not Enough to go Round
• Book Review: ‘From Lenin to Stalin’
• More Light on the Russian Confessions

 

No. 398 October 1937

• Shanghai: A New Gang “Muscling In”
• Notes by the Way: The Basque Children
• Letters to the Editors: Socialists and the State

 

No. 399 November 1937*

• Editorial: The Cost of Living Farce
• Party News: Our Parliamentary Fund
• The Wealthy Duchess and
• the Factory Girls
• Labour Party and T.U.C. in Conference
• Notes by the Way: The Low-down on Dictators
• Book Review: “The Papacy and Fascism”
• Are the Japanese ‘Barbarians’?
• The Socialist Party and economic organisation

 

No. 400 December 1937

• Editorial: The Popular Front and the Struggle Against Fascism
• “Bedaux” and the Workers
• Notes by the Way: “Capitalists” at the Rubbish Heap
• Part News: Bazaar and Social
• History Embarrasses the Communist Party
• A prophet who faded out
• Some aspects of Russia

 

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1938

 

No. 401 January 1938

• To a New Reader
• A Strike is Fun to Some People
• Party News: The Bazaar

 

No. 402 February 1938

• Editorial: Collapse of the Popular
• Front in France
• A General Election in 1938?
• Obituary: Arthur Evans

 

No. 403 March 1938

• Book Reviews: Reaction in Germany and Spain
• Editorial: The Communists and the I.L.P. Change Places
• Short Story: ‘Ten Forty-Five’

 

No. 404 April 1938*

• Editorial: Another Russian Sacrificial Feast
• Parliamentary Fund
• Letter: Land Values and Socialism
• Letters: Answers to Correspondents
• The German Drive Through Central Europe
• Letter: Further Criticism of the
• Object of the S.P.G.B.
• Letters: Socialism and Equality
• Here and There
• Will There Be Another War?
• This Month’s Quotation: Oscar Wilde
• An Open Letter to the Electors of East Ham North
• At the Graveside of Karl Marx
• Trotsky-Stalin Feud: An American View

 

No. 405 May 1938*

• What May-Day Means to Us
• Editorial: For and Against the Popular Front
• Germany’s First Round
• Notes by the Way
• Death of Moses Baritz
• Book Review: The Communists Re-write Working Class History
• Italy in Abyssinia and Britain in Arabia
• A Hundred Years Since the Charter
• The Labour Theory of Value

 

No. 406 June 1938

• Party News: Our Parliamentary Campaign
• Editorial: Still Another Mining Tragedy
• Our May-Day Meetings
• Obituary: George Bellingham

 

No. 407 July 1938

• Editorial: Beating the War Drums
• The Popular Front Splits the French Labour Party
• Notes by the Way: Will the Forty Fall for it?
• Editorial: A Socialist Minority in Parliament

 

No. 408 August 1938*

• The Busmen’s Problem: New Unions or old
• Editorial: Socialists and A.R.P.
• Communist Welcome to King and Queen
• “New” Ideas With Whiskers On Them
• A Thought for the Times
• Stepfather Stalin
• Notes of the month
• The City
• John Strachey’s What Are We to Do?

 

No. 409 September 1938*

• The Real Issue in Czechoslovakia
• Editorial: Should Aliens Be Allowed In?
• Should We Fight for Democracy?
• Notes by the Way
• Notes of the Month
• Introduction to Socialism
• Contact
• Book Review: Sea Dogs
• Why I Joined the S.P.G.B.
• A Ghost of the Past
• This month’s quotation (Oscar Wilde)

 

No. 410 October 1938

• Editorial: Why Collective Security
• Will Not Work
• Party News: Rally in Hyde Park
• Book Review: ‘The Battle For Peace’
• Czechoslovakia: The Choice Before Us

 

No. 411 November 1938

• Editorial: What of the Future?
• Obituary: Death of Comrade A. Guiver
• Hitler the “Socialist”

 

No. 412 December 1938

• Assisting Workers Abroad
• Capitalist Hypocrisy
• Letters: The Russian Workers under the Czar and under the Bolshevists
• Is Britain Going Fascist ?

 

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1939

 

No. 413 January 1939*

• Kautsky’s Work for Socialism
• Editorial: Principles or Expediency
• Marxism and United Fronts
• Notes by the Way
• Umbrella statesmen
• An American looks at Capitalism and the British Labour Party
• The progress of Russia
• Supporting a Capitalist War for Freedom
• Answer to correspondent
• This Month’s Quotation: Karl Kautsky
• Party news:To You . . Our Thanks!

 

No. 414 February 1939*

• Editorial: Cripps and the Labour Party
• This Month’s Quotation: August Bebel
• Letter: Another Question about War for Czechoslovakia
• Letter: Problems of Socialist
• Administration
• Notes By The Way: Compulsory Confessions in Russian Jails
• The Land and the Labourer
• Here and There: When Mussolini Would Not Fight
• Book Review: ‘Warning from the West Indies’
• Book Review: ‘The Communist International’

 

No. 415 March 1939*

• Has Christianity a Solution for Social Problems?
• What Do You Want Fom Life?
• Christianity’s Diminishing Returns
• Editorial: The Future of Sir Stafford Cripps
• Peaceful manifestations
• This Month’s Quotation: James Connolly
• Notes by the Way: Mussolini Fights Bolshevism
• Book Review: The Real Russia
• Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
• Learn about Leaders, Old and New

 

No. 416 April 1939*

• The Last Hour in Madrid
• Editorial: The Beginning and End of Czechoslovakia
• Is Democracy Foundering?
• Notes by the Way
• Don’t Die for Capitalism- Live for Socialism!
• Working Class
• A Burning Question
• Blessings of British Imperialism
• THe Legend of Litter
• Answers to Correspondents
• Book Review: “Science and You” by J.B.S. Haldane
• The Party’s position: A statement in French
• Parliamentary activity
• This Month’s Quotation: Antonia Labriola

 

No. 417 May 1939*

• Editorial: May-Day and the War Clouds
• Clashing Interests in the Mediterranean
• Historical Background of Hitlerism
• This Month’s Quotation: Heinrich Heine
• National Service or International Socialism
• May-Day in Bedlam
• Party News: Parliamentary Activity
• Why the Workers are Not Anti-Patriotic
• Answers to Correpondents
• Letters: The Miserable Condition of Domestic Workers
• The Wages of Agricultural Workers

 

No. 418 June 1939*

• Forward We Must Go
• Editorial: Conscription—1916 Over Again
• The Death Dance of Danzig
• Here and There
• Fascism and Democracy
• Illusion
• The Wages of Agricultural Workers
• Mr. Beverley Baxter’s Error
• Communists and the Pope
• Death of Comrade Bremner
• Advertising
• A reminder
• This Month’s Quotation: George Sand

 

No. 419 July 1939*

• Why the French Popular Front Failed
• Editorial: The Armament Illusion
• Whither Britain?
• Notes by the Way
• Where They Stand on Conscription
• Letters: Is Socialism Only a Dream?
• Answers to Correspondents: Is Stalin a Dictator?
• Answers to Correspondents: Can the Workers be Won Over by Socialism?
• Answers to correspondents: Should the S.P.G.B. Join the Labour Party?
• Manchester Workers Crowd to Party Meetings
• The death penalty in Soviet Russia
• This Month’s Quotation: Joseph Dietzgen

 

No. 420 August 1939*

• A Scottish Red Herring
• Editorial: Can Small Nations Live?
• National Hatred: A Capitalist Weapon
• The Trump Card of Trotsky
• Workers’ Blood and Capitalist Profit
• Why Socialism?
• Letter: Should we Merge with the I.L.P.?
• This Month’s Quotation: Angelica Balabanoff

 

No. 421 September 1939*

• Editorial: Birds of a Feather: The Russo-German Bombshell
• This Month’s Quotation: Jan Bloch
• Obituary: Death of Comrade E. Wade
• Communists want Conscription
• While Rome Burns
• Forgings from the Furnace
• The Only Way
• More Blessings of British Imperialism
• What is the true Position?
• Letter: Is the S.P.G.B. Afraid to Criticise Trade Unionism?
• The Mongol or the Hun
• Who Divides the Workers?
• Cases from the courts
• Problems of Socialist Administration
• Pseudo-Democracy and Dictatorship

 

No. 422 October 1939*

• This Month’s Quotation: W. J. Perry
• Socialism Has Not Abandoned its Aims
• The Socialist Party of Great Britain and the War
• Germany, the Danube and Rumania
• The Trick
• What the Parties Say about the War
• Notes by the Way
• What They Said and Say
• Party News: Attention!
• Announcement from the Central Organiser
• The Weight of the Chain
• Forgings from the Furnace (continued)
• The Partition of Ireland
• Capitalist Opposition to Socialism
• Socialism and the Well-paid Managers of Industry

 

No. 423 November 1939*

• Editorial: The Definition of War Aims
• The Strutting Turkey and the Dancing Bear
• Moscow Turns a New Somersault and Mr. Pollitt Holds the Baby
• This Month’s Quotation: Socialist
• Changing Russia
• The Prospect for Socialism – What Will Happen After the War?
• Finland, the Balts and the Baltic
• Notes by the Way
• Here and There
• Interest in Finland
• Our Sixpenny Stunt

 

No. 424 December 1939*

• Editorial: Wages in War-Time
• What Are We Waiting For?
• This Month’s Quotation: Frederick Engels
• The Russian Invasion of Finland
• Stalin at the Gates of India
• Notes by the Way: An Imaginary Incident After the War
• Answers to Correspondents
• Here and There: New Words for the Old
• Party News: Successful Rally at Conway Hall
• Book Review: Bolshevism by Rudolf Sprenger

 

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