Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Topics

The papers in this archive carried no topic index, so these are inferred. An article is listed under a subject when its headline names it, or when it names it at least four times and often enough for its length. At most four subjects an article, ranked by how often each is named, and the count is shown so you can check it.

4,204 of 6,578 articles carry at least one subject. 2,374 carry none — they name none of the subjects below. That is deliberate: forcing every article into the nearest subject would make this index useless and hide the fact that the vocabulary is incomplete. An article’s absence from a subject is not evidence that it is not about it.

Britain 566 Trade unions 509 Racism and anti-fascism 472 Labour Party 456 Ireland 342 Russia and the USSR 275 Asia 246 Balkans 231 Asylum and migration 199 UNISON 197 Middle East 188 Latin America 172 South Africa 170 Marxism 170 Women 168 Unemployment 167 Palestine 162 Trotsky 149 United States 148 Miners 146 Europe 144 Stalinism 139 Privatisation 137 Scotland 137 Health 129 Lesbian and gay 129 France 124 War and peace 114 Economy 114 Transport workers 106 Germany 104 Socialist Alliance 84 The left 81 Africa 74 Wales 73 Italy 50 Ecology 49 Education 46 Fourth International 45 Afghanistan 34 Spain 26 Housing 16 Youth and students 9

By kind of item

Not a subject but a form. These come from the paper’s own running banner, so they are the editors’ label rather than an inference.

Editorial 417 Reviews 184 World news 184 Home news 151 Conference report 129 Centre pages 90 Obituaries 53 Letters 49 Interview 13