December 2007 Socialist Standard: Murder by Degrees

December 2007 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Workers Have No Country

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Christmas Crackers

Cooking the Books #1 Buying To Leave Empty

Cooking the Books #2 Cameron's Hindquarters

Greasy Pole It’s Nice to Have Friends

50 Years Ago Sputnik Lunacy

Main Articles

Global warming – what is it?

The Politics of Climate Change The links between governments and business are inextricable, often murky .

Saving earth or saving profits? The environment is not under threat from industrial production as such, but from this in the service of profit-seeking

Lack of Respect We look at the shipwreck of yet another attempt to organise a left-of-Labour reformist party.

Booms and Slums

Connecting The Dots

Letters, Reviews,& Meetings

Letters to the Editor: 'Freeganism: Living Outside Capitalism?'

Book Reviews: 'How to make opportunity equal: race and contributive justice' by Paul Gomberg; 'UFO Religion. Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture' by Gregory L. Reece; 'Thinking Allowed. A Manifesto for Successful Political Change in Britain and the World' by Sarah Young

Film Review: 'Sicko'

Socialist Party Meetings: West London, South London & Norwich

Voice From The Back

Californian Nightmare; A Wall Street Shuffle; This is Communism?; Chinese Statistics