History
The Standard has also carried translations of continental writers. It was placed on a secret list of papers and magazines banned for export during World 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.
In 1918, however, the paper voiced the first doubts of the SPGB regarding the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
In the 1930s it drew on the reports from Spain to produce articles on the looming menace of aerial warfare.
During World War II the magazine evaded the censor largely by producing a series of articles on the Peloponnesian and similar ancient wars as a cover for the Party's opposition to the current one.
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