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