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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Cooking the Books: The great debt swindle (2011)

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The Cooking the Books column from the January 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Channel 4’s sponsorship of right-wing propaganda ma...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Wikid Games (2011)

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From the January 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack. In order to make it impossible to e...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Greasy Pole: Cable unconnected? (2011)

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The Greasy Pole column from the January 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard In those heady post-election days last May Cameron and Cl...

Proper Gander (2011)

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From the January 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard “Success and money motivate me. My first word wasn’t ‘Mummy’ – it was ‘money’” ....

A Classic History Book (1968)

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Book Review from the December 1968 issue of the Socialist Standard The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson Thompson...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Pathfinders: Engineering the Earth (2011)

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The Pathfinders Column from the January 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard A new theme has recently emerged in the debate on climate...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Cooking the Books: Muddle class (2011)

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The Cooking the Books column from the January 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard “‘Triple crunch’ will see lower middle classes £720...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

A mining incident (2011)

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From the January 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Mining accidents are frequent such as the recent ones in Equador, Columbia, Chin...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Allotments are not enough (2011)

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Book Review from the January 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Life Inc. By Douglas Rushkoff. Vintage Books 2010 One Christmas Eve,...
Monday, January 3, 2011

The cold reality of state power (2011)

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Editorial from the January 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard There are plenty of reasons for socialists to be cheerful as we go int...
Friday, December 31, 2010

All in it together? (2010)

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From the December 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard Some are less in it than others. The gap between those at the top of society, an...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Can the Tea Party save the American Dream? (2010)

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From the December 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard The right-wing Tea Party movement is, according to some commentators, turning int...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Cooking the Books: Zero-sum games (2010)

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The Cooking the Books column from the December 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard   “Currency trading,” wrote Anatole Kaletsky in the (...
Monday, December 27, 2010

50 Years Ago: Kennedy to run U.S. capitalism (2010)

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The 50 Years Ago column from the December 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard Mr. Kennedy’s victory at the American polls came as the cu...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Greasy Pole: Woolas – another fine mess (2010)

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The Greasy Pole column from the December 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard There are limits. As Phil Woolas, until recently the MP fo...