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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Editorial: Which kind of capitalism – or the alternative? (2011)

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Editorial from the June 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Around the middle of the last century there were a group of nice people w...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Cooking the Books: Brown re-invents the wheel (2011)

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A Cooking the Books column from the April 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Gordon Brown has written a book. Not gossip about what ...

Editorial: What then must we do? (2011)

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Editorial from the May 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, kicked off a speech he gav...
Monday, April 4, 2011

Pity about the politics (2011)

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Book Review from the April 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Hobsbawm: History and Politics . Gregory Elliott, (Pluto Press, 2010) On...

Editorial: Libya: brutality and hypocrisy (2011)

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Editorial from the April 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard When the popular movements against long-standing despots in the Arab wor...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Cooking the Books: Was the crisis just a mistake? (2011)

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From the March 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission set up by the US government reported at th...

Look back, move forward

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Cross-posted from the Socialism Or Your Money Back blog Two things are utterly predictable whenever there is a mass protest, or a demonstra...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Egypt: The hard road to political democracy (2011)

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From the March 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard What will happen in Egypt now? Will the army keep control until a new leader accep...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Kropotkin (2011)

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Book Review from the March 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Mutual Aid. An Introduction and Evaluation . By Iain McKay. AK Press. ...

Proper Gander: Brooker's Bile (2011)

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The Proper Gander column from the March 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Television is a “flickering fibbing machine”, according t...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Cooking the Books: Capitalism will not be controlled (2011)

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The Cooking the Books column from the March 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Gordon Brown will go down in history as a failure. Po...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Editorial: What’s the alternative? (2011)

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Editorial from the March 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard “What’s the alternative?” As capitalism remains mired in crisis, and criti...

Lazy workers?

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Cross-posted from the Socialist Courier blog A defense of capitalism often heard by socialists is that socialism would be impossible because...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Cooking the Books: Doom and gloom (2011)

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The Cooking the Books column from the February 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard In November David Segal of the New York Times inter...

Ghana – can oil make a difference? (2011)

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From the February 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Who fill benefit from the discovery of offshore oil in Ghana? The fanfare and...