December 2009 Socialist Standard: Down and out in Mayfair

December 2009 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Copenhagen: another predictable failure

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Calorie counts and pet scans

Cooking the Books 1 This year’s Nobel Prize for Economics

Cooking the Books 2 Free is good

Material World The advance of capitalism

Greasy Pole BNP – Question Time Without Answers

Pieces Together Capitalist Paradox; Drug Pushers Pay Off; All Right For Some

50 Years Ago Second thoughts

Main Articles

Down and out in Mayfair We still live in a society that if you don’t have the ability to pay you ‘goes’ without.

Capitalism and food security – an oxymoron Food security for all the people of the world will only be possible when the profit motive is taken out of food supply.

The World Around You Someone employs you, and you work for them, and they control a big part of your waking hours.

Too good to be true We are conditioned to accept the absurdities and contradictions that capitalism throws up.

Debating the “S-Word” Is any word more over-used and misunderstood today than “socialism”?

On modern life (Eric Fromm ) Some selected quotes from Fromm's 'The Art of Loving'.

How I got to be a socialist “… I came to know about ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ but always preferred ‘our’.”

Ire of the Irate Itinerant Cartoon Strip

Book Reviews, & Meetings

Book Reviews:Why not socialism? By G. A. Cohen; Where the Other Half Lives: Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World Sarah Glynn, ed; Critical Social Theory and the End of Work By Edward Granter; Free. The Future of a Radical Price. By Chris Anderson; Plebs. By Colin Waugh.

Socialist Party Meetings: Clapham, Chiswick & Norwich:

Voice From The Back

End of a dream; How about socialism?; Capitalism is gangsterism; The new gangsters