September 2010 Socialist Standard

September 2010 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Make austerity history

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Taiga Taiga burning bright...

Cooking the Books 1 Overproduction or underconsumption?

Cooking the Books 2 Labour and labour-power

Material World Fascists Take Over Russian Communist Party

Greasy Pole Home Sweet (?) Home

50 Years Ago Harry Pollitt

Main Articles

China’s working class drives capitalist development The heroic and inspiring struggles of China’s working class will only lay the ground for new and improved exploitation methods – unless, that is, the struggle turns political – and socialist.

A Socialist visits capitalist China Mainland China seen through the eyes of a socialist tourist.

What future for the Beautiful Island? A look at the other China.

For or Against Parliament? Violent overthrow of governments versus peaceful democratic elections.

Engels on Human Evolution Engels followed the impact of Darwin’s ideas more closely than Marx. He may even have read Darwin ‘The Descent of Man’.(concluding article of a three part series)

Letters, Book Reviews and Meetings

Letters to the Editors: Living Wage; Imperialism; Pete Seeger again

Book Reviews: Agrofuels: Big Profits, Ruined Lives and Ecological Destruction. By François Houtart. (Pluto Press);For All the Tea in China. By Sarah Rose (Arrow Books)

Socialist Party Meetings: Clapham, Chiswick & Manchester:

Voice From The Back

Behind The Fine Words; Progressing Backwards; Half A Million Homeless; "Humanitarian" Slaughter; The Growth Of Inequality; Bargain Basement Exploitation

August 2010 Socialist Standard

August 2010 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Is unemployment really the problem?

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Meat Into Veg

Cooking the Books 1 The problem with capitalism

Cooking the Books 2 Economic soothsaying

Material World Waste and Want: Grapes of Wrath revisited

Greasy Pole You're Nicked

Pieces Together Workers Waking Up; A Lost Tribe Indeed; Profitable Carnage; Capitalism in Action

50 Years Ago The Passing of a Labour Leader

Main Articles

NHS: short-term prescriptions For Tories, liberty means the freedom first and foremost to make money.

Communist Camp What communism has in common with a row of tents.

Marx and the Ideology of Darwinism Marx admired Darwin’s work but was critical of some of the conclusions drawn from it. The second of our three-part article on Marx and Engels and Darwin.

Land Grab: win-win or win-lose? Corporate self-regulation or total system change?

Conversation with a hairdresser’s assistant Uncomplicated Marxian economics by Wilhelm Reich, author of The Sexual Revolution.

Letters, Book Reviews, Meetings & Obituary

Letters to the Editors: Withering away of money?; Declining rate of profit?; Capital – difficult?

Book Reviews: Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky; Chinese Whispers by Hsiao-Hung Pai; Socialism or Barbarism. From the 'American Century' to the Crossroads by Istvan Meszaros; Africa’s Liberation. The Legacy of Nyerere edited by Chambi Chachage and Annar Cassam

Socialist Party Meetings: Clapham & Norwich:

Obituary: Friedrich Vogt

Voice From The Back

The arrogance of the capitalist class; What recession?; Let ‘em fly copters; The silent spillage; Stop Moaning. Work Harder

March 2010 Socialist Standard

March 2010 Socialist Standard

Editorial

X-Factor

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Brave New Epsilons

Cooking the Books 1 Empty hope

Cooking the Books 2 Living without money

Material World CARE: International

Greasy Pole "...Less Equal Than Others...”

Pieces Together Peace Prize?; Debt Ridden Britain; The Gap Widens; "Caring" Capitalism

50 Years Ago Intermingling

Main Articles

Tony Blair and the Chilcot inquiry Does it matter whether the Iraq War was legal or illegal?

Tilting at windmills with a banjo Pete Seeger is now in his 90th year. His songs have always been better than his politics.

What is Real Democracy and How Do We Get It? In a month or so the people of Britain will be asked once again to decide which representatives of the ruling class will rule over them for the next four or five years.

Capitalism breeds inequality A recent report shows that the reformist actions of the Labour government have not been able to reverse the inequalities that capitalism generates.

Ire of the Irate Itinerant Cartoon Strip

Letters, Book Reviews, Meetings & Obituary

Letters to the Editors: Inflation and Quantitative Easing

Book Reviews: Trotsky: a biography by Robert Service; Money by Eric Lonergan; People First Economics edited by David Ransom & Vanessa Baird

Socialist Party Meetings: Clapham, Manchester & Norwich:

Obituary: Cyril Evans

Voice From The Back

Capitalism is worldwide; A Grateful Nation; Class Division; Mother of the Free

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February 2010 Socialist Standard

February 2010 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Calling on Beelzebub

Regular Columns

Pathfinders The Machine inside the Ghost

Cooking the Books 1 Dreams and nightmares

Cooking the Books 2 The yellow brick road to nowhere

Material World American Public Opinion and the S-Word: weakening of a taboo?

Greasy Pole Hoon or Buffoon?

Pieces Together A frightening world; The oil invasion; Merchants of death

50 Years Ago “You’ve never had it so good”

Main Articles

Haiti - an un-natural disaster The reality with earthquakes is they kill so many only if we let them. They are inevitable, but the death toll is not.

Christmas bombers The son of a Nigerian banker wasn’t the only one on a bombing mission at Christmas.

Who bailed out the bankers? They tell us that we “the taxpayers” did? But it’s not as simple as that.’

Beyond Capitalism Attempts to reform capitalism, whether through parliament or dictatorship, have failed. This leaves conscious majority revolution as the only way forward.

The market versus cooperation Difficulties with cooperation arise when the restrictions of the market start to operate

Car Boot Capers Shopping, it’s said, is the new religion, the new opiate of the people.

Ire of the Irate Itinerant Cartoon Strip

Book Reviews, & Meetings

Book Reviews:Cronies or Capitalists? The Russian Bourgeoisie and the Bourgeois Revolution from 1850 to 1917 By David Lockwood; Red Planets - Marxism and Science Fiction Edited by Mark Bould & China Miéville; First as Tragedy, Then as Farce By Slavoj Žižek

Socialist Party Meetings: Clapham, Holborn, Manchester & Norwich:

Voice From The Back

Green shoots of recovery?; Capitalism is obscene; This Sporting Life; Behind the glamour

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January 2010 Socialist Standard

January 2010 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Capitalism and the New Decade

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Top of the Pop Charts

Cooking the Books 1 State monopoly capitalism

Cooking the Books 2 Financial alchemy

Material World Xenophobia in Russia

Greasy Pole The thick of it

Pieces Together Another Labour failure; Ten wasted years; The other 1 percent

50 Years Ago Labour's lost chord

Main Articles

Pitiful Copenhagen Given the competitive nature of capitalism any agreement on trying to deal with climate change was bound to be feeble and inadequate.

Climate change: business, as usual What should we have expected from such a large gathering of the world’s elites if it wasn’t this?

Masters of War ‘You can fool all of the people some of the time . . . and some of the people all of the time . . . but . . .’

Cab-ride to capitalism: servitude by the majority It only takes a cab ride in a city to see which class has the most power and influence in capitalist society.

Horror-Scope For Non-Socialists Some forecasts which are much more likely to be fulfilled – for non- Socialists.

Real life monopoly Compared to the complexities of capitalism socialism is a simple social system.

Ire of the Irate Itinerant Cartoon Strip

Book Reviews, & Meetings

Book Reviews:The Frock-Coated Communist: the Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels By Tristram Hunt; The Ecological Revolution – making peace with the planet By John Bellamy Foster The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance By Peter Stalker; Unravelling Capitalism. A Guide to Marxist Political Economy Joseph Choonara; Zombie Capitalism. Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx. By Chris Harman; Engines of Change By Ian J Kerr

Socialist Party Meetings: Clapham, Holborn, Manchester & Norwich:

Voice From The Back

Pollution and Profits; Capitalism in action; The next war?; It must be obvious

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