September 10, 2001 - America on the Brink

The September Socialist Standard is now online and can be read either as a PDF here or the individual articles and reviews can be read in html by clicking on the links provided below.

With this month being five years since 9/11, I wasn't that surprised to see that the Editorial Committee opted for an article on that monstrous atrocity, and the resultant fall out in the world as its front page article. People might also be interested in the Socialist Standard which was produced the month following the terrorist attack in New York.

I can't help but notice that the late Ted Grant gets a long obituary in this month's Standard, which I guess is par for the course as the late Tony Cliff also got the full length write up in the May 2000 Socialist Standard. I fear the worst if Tony Benn, Michael Foot and Margaret Thatcher were to die over the same period of time - a bumper 72 page issue of the Socialist Standard the following month, made up of an editorial, the Party's object and declaration of principles, and the rest of the issue given over to sticking the political boot in.

Editorial

War, Plots and Civil Liberties

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Odds Uneven

Cooking the Books Doing Business, the World Bank Way & "Mass Unemployment"

Greasy Pole Peter Hain - a Case of Mistaken Identity

50 Years Ago What is Behind the Fight for Suez

Main Articles

September 11, 2001: reflections on a somewhat unusual act of war On the fifth anniversary of the al-Qaeda attack on New York and Washington, we reflect on this act of war and try to place it in its true political and moral context.

After Hezbullah, war with Iran? Was Israel's attack on Hezbullah part of preparations for a coming US attack on Iran?

Globalisation - what does it mean? The second part of our article analysing capitalist globalisation. Last month we looked at how this affected capital. This month we examine its impact on the world's population at large.

Death of a Tendency The recent death of Ted Grant at the age of 93 has been a landmark, albeit a minor one, in British political history.

Political Ideas in Africa A brief look at the history of leftwing ideas in Africa.

Desperate Lies The man who faced the choice of dropping dead while waiting on the NHS list or bluffing.

Reviews and Letters

Book Reviews Glasshouse by Charles Stross; A Rebel's Guide to Gramsci by Chris Bambery

Theatre Review Shakespeare's Coriolanus at the Globe

Letters to the Editors Nuclear Power & Asked and Answered

Voice From The Back

Blinded, Conned, Kicked, Disgusted, Abandoned and Shunned by Capitalism.