Showing posts with label November 2007. Show all posts
Showing posts with label November 2007. Show all posts

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Where's My Manners?

There's me a couple of days back pointing people in the direction of Dave Cameron embracing all things co-operative, and yet I was neglectful in my revolutionary duty by failing to tie it in with the November Socialist Standard.

This month's 'Cooking the Books' column carries a wee piece where the original Green Shield Knight, Jonathan Porritt, is quoted stamping his own claim on the capitalism apologist chutzpah stakes by seeking to co-opt Co-operatism into the interests of saving capitalism from consuming itself*:

  • Co-opting the Co-op
  • What with Porritt and now Cameron bigging up co-operativism in recent weeks, I'm guessing that something must be in the think tank air. Maybe a paucity of new ideas? I'll leave that for the blogsphere's egg-heads to chew over. I'm off to try and find a Postcard mp3.

    *Please don't try and read that sentence out loud without first taking a deep breath. It may cause success spasms of alliterative ailments and aches.

    Thursday, November 01, 2007

    We Who Are About To Die . . . the november 2007 socialist standard

    November 2007 Socialist Standard

    Editorial

  • Brown’s no different
  • Regular Columns

  • Pathfinders Why Gould was wrong, and why Dawkins might be even more wrong
  • Cooking the Books #1 That Was Then
  • Cooking the Books #2 Co-opting the Co-op
  • Greasy Pole It’s A Date, Then? Or Not?
  • 50 Years Ago Has Bevan Sold the Pass?
  • Main Articles

  • Religion or Capitalism: which is the root of evil? Atheists have been coming out of the closet in recent years. But will these freethinkers also embrace the “heresy” of criticizing capitalism?
  • Materialism v Spiritism The October 1926 Socialist Standard reviewed a pamphlet by a Communist Party sympathiser entitled Is Materialism the Basis of Communism? The case against Materialism from the Revolutionary Standpoint. The author replied. We republish our reply as a still valid exposition of the scientific method.
  • I Believe It appears there has been a recent proliferation of books published on the subject of defending or promoting atheism or giving ..what isall the fuss about ?
  • The Postal Workers' Strike A postal worker reflects on the recent series of strikes.
  • Capitalism is not superior to socialism The Socialist Party speaker’s contribution to a recent debate at University College Dublin on the motion “That Capitalism is Superior to Socialism in the Modern World”.
  • Another leader falls The demise of Ming Campbell.
  • Letters, Book Reviews, Obituaries & Meetings

  • Letters to the Editor: 'Anthony Greenwood' & 'Reforms Again'
  • Book Reviews: 'Who was Jesus?' Kamal Salibi; 'Against All Gods' by AC Grayling; 'God Is Not Great' by Christopher Hitchens; 'The Failure of a Dream. The Independent Labour Party from Disaffiliation to World War II' by Gidon Cohen; Struggling for a Social Europe: Neoliberal Globalisation and the Birth of a European Social Movement' by Andy Mathers; 'Marx’s Das Kapital' by Francis Wheen
  • Obituary: 'Sean Doherty'
  • Socialist Party Meetings: West London, South London, Salisbury, Edinburgh & Norwich
  • Voice From The Back

  • All Things To All Men; A Living Wage?; Now That's Living; We Hope It Is True ; Not So Patriotic; The New Imperialists