| LABOURED | Worked hard on the socialist edition |
| SLAVEDRIVER | He oppresses his staff, having worked hard on the Thames (5,6) |
| STRAINED | Worked hard on goods train, Edinburgh-bound (8) |
| BEAVERED | Worked hard on something, as a river creature might |
| SUPPRESS | Stop the newspaper following the beginnings of the Socialist Unity Party (8) |
| LATHERED | The Parisian and the socialist spread soap all over (8) |
| GATHERED | Georgia, the socialist, being collected (8) |
| LABOURER | Workman joins the Socialist party with hesitation (8) |
| REDOLENT | Suggestive of what the Socialist circle advanced (8) |
| BELABOUR | Beat an exhortation to join the Socialist Party (8) |
| INTHERED | It's popular with the socialist owing money (2,3,3) |
| KEEPLEFT | Traffic sign erected by the socialists? (4,4) |
| YOUTHFUL | Fresh new tofu intermittently lousy -hard on the inside (8) |
| TOILETRY | Work hard on the final attempt to make soap (8) |
| GARMOUTH | Limb covered in gout - hard on the River Spey (8) |
| STAMPING | Putting your foot down hard on the back mats, top paving in first garage (8) |
| GUNNEDIT | Pressed hard on the gas |
| BODYSHOT | Drink that's hard on the stomach? |
| REDFLAG | In the Socialist anthem, 'Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the ... flying here' |
| ENGELS | Surname of the socialist who, with Karl Marx, wrote the Communist Manifesto (6) |
