Socialist Standard July 2007

Editorial

The Profit System Must Go

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Upload, Download, Freeload!

Cooking the Books 1 Oliver in Blunderland

Cooking the Books 2 Who Will Verify The Verifiers?

Greasy Pole Blair Bites The Hand That Feed Him

50 Years Ago Socialists and the Press

Main Articles

Suicide Bombers: Heroes and Villains? On the morning of 7 July 2005 the inhabitants of London awoke and prepared to go out for the day. Fifty-six of them were to die the victims of terrorist bombings. For twenty years in countries across the globe members of our class have been subjected to other such murderous outrages. What motivates the bombers and who supports their actions?

Back To Power-Sharing What thirty years of death and destruction in Northern Ireland brought?

The French Elections: Mr Nasty Wins The recent round of elections in France resulted in the rout of the French Left. Were the workers wrong not to vote for them?

The Hanging Gardens of Bombay In India, the Prime Minister's is worried about the way the rich flaunt their wealth . . .

The Haves and the Have-Yachts . . . in Britain Blair and Brown make the super-rich welcome.

Free Access to What? Some Problems of Consumption in Socialism How will the range of goods and services to be supplied be determined in a socialist society?

Letters, Reviews & Meetings

Letters to the Editors 'The Panama Canal'

Book Reviews The Progressive Patriot by Billy Bragg; A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr; Brave Community: The Digger Movement in the English Revolution by John Gurney; Operation Supergoose by William Hart

Meetings Birmingham, Swansea, West London, Manchester & Norwich.

Voice From The Back

Hard Times; Moral Majority Nonsense; USA: Fantasy and Reality; Merchants of Death ; Let Them Suffer; Capitalism Distorts Science; Growing Old Disgracefully