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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