October 2007 Socialist Standard: Two Little Boys Had Two Little Toys . . .

October 2007 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Moral Panic in the UK

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Socialism in the Space Age

Cooking the Books 1 Why they like a bit of inflation

Cooking the Books 2 Back to the Iron Age?

Greasy Pole Gordon Brown – At Last

50 Years Ago Sinn Fein policy is futile

Main Articles

Gun and knife crime The recent spate of gun and knife crime has been taken as evidence that the country is descending into a chaos of uncontrolled violence.

Warring Conscience A personal statement from a former soldier who has become a socialist.

Northern Clay Northern Rock is currently the focus of one of the most serious financial debacles in modern British history.

Poverty and Famines Why do famines occur? Because there's not enough food or because people haven't enough money to buy it?

Do Anything Now? The Socialist Party's contribution to a recent Go Change the World debate.

Opportunity Cost It has always seemed strange to hear of Women's Rights as if it were a minority issue.

Letters, Book Reviews & Meetings

Letters to the Editor: Socialism & Reformism

Book Reviews: 'The Blair Years – Extracts From the Alastair Campbell Diaries' edited by Alastair Campbell and Richard Stott; 'The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett' by Richard Ingrams; 'The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia' by Richard Overy; 'After Socialism. Reconstructing Critical Social Thought' by Gabriel Kolko

Socialist Party Meetings: Manchester, London & Norwich

Voice From The Back

Recruiting Sergeant; Ain't Science Wonderful?; Bitter Medicine; Class Divided Britain ; Expert Wants Revolution; Debt-Laden Workers; Loads of Money