May 2008 Socialist Standard
Editorial
Food security
Regular Columns
Pathfinders Look down there, and tell me
what you see...
Cooking the Books 1 Are prices real?
Cooking the Books 2 Anyone for coal?
Material World Iraq: Violence without end or purpose?
Pieces Together Good News For Some
Greasy Pole Winners and losers: One law for the poor, and another for MPs.
50 Years Ago To busmen—and others
Main Articles
1968 Recalled A reprint of what the Socialist Standard said on some of the events of 1968.
The Revolution that wasn't What might have happened if, forty years ago, workers in France had taken over the factories and tried to keep production going.
Bubble Troubles The intoxicating US housing boom has come to an end. Now the economic hangover has arrived.
Who wants a referendum on Europe? The argument about a referendum over the EU Treaty is not about democracy, but about politicians trying to control decision-making.
How they decided to have (and keep) the Bomb We look at what a collection of declassified official documents reveal about the nuclear weapons policy of successive British governments, Labour and Tory.
Britain: An "Endemic Surveillance Society" The control freaks in power who would monitor our every movement, conversation and transaction have had a busy time of late.
Ire of the Irate Itinerant Cartoon strip
Letters, Reviews & Meetings
Letters to the Editor: 'More Basic Income'
Book Reviews: 'Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System.' By Boris Kagarlitsky.; 'The Battle for China's Past' By Mobo Gao
Socialist Party Meetings: Norwich, Salisbury, Birmingham, Glasgow
Voice From The Back
The Gap Widens; Double Standards; American Illusions; This is Progress?; A Grim Future
Editorial
Regular Columns
what you see...
Main Articles
Letters, Reviews & Meetings
Voice From The Back