Socialist Standard
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The Socialist Standard is a monthly socialist newspaper published without interruption since 1904 by the Socialist Party of Great Britain. The newspaper is written in a simple, direct style and focuses mainly on socialist advocacy and Marxian analysis of current events, particularly those affecting the United Kingdom.
It is not correct to say that The SPGB is a left-wing organisation or its journal, The Socialist Standard a left-wing journal. Whatever of the past, 'left-wing' has simply become a 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 of this myriad groups and organisations that would claim to be left-wing, affirms that capiytalism is incapable of meaningful reform;that quientessentially the basis of the exploitation of the working class is the wages/money system.
The SPGB holds that the limping democracy extant in most countries today, and certainly, in the developed countries, can be used as a weapon of social revolution; if the majority desired a socialist society, a wageless, classless, moneyless condition wherein goods and services were produced solely for need, there is no power capable of resisting resisting its demand Richard Montague