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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Cooking the Books: Class Struggle From Above (2013)

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The Cooking the Books column from the May 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard Some supporters of capitalism are getting worried. They...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The First Mass Movement in History (2012)

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From the September 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard The Chartists struggled for political democracy in nineteenth-century Brita...

Democracy and Capitalism (2011)

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From the July 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Why in the end the two are incompatible Democracy, either as simply a word in our...

Capitalism Kills: The Bangladeshi Garment Factory Disaster (2013)

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From the June 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard The collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Savar, near Dhaka, capit...

A Football Focus (2012)

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Book Review from the August 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard Soccernomics , by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski. HarperSport. 2012....

Was Marx Wrong About Class? (1966)

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From the June 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard Classes in Modern Society by T.B. Bottomore is a revised edition of a book which f...

A challenge to the unions (2002)

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From the September 2002 issue of the Socialist Standard One of the proud boasts of the more advanced capitalist states is that they are ...

Cooking the Books: Bitcoin or Bit Con? (2013)

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The Cooking the Books column from the June 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘Don’t write off Bitcoins as just another bubble,’ wro...
Monday, June 24, 2013

Socialism is the Only Alternative (2013)

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From the June 2013 issue of the  Socialist Standard On 22 June a People’s Assembly Against Austerity is being held in central London, ...
Friday, June 7, 2013

Who Was Blanqui? (2013)

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Louis Auguste Blanqui From the May 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard Louis Auguste Blanqui was the quintessential angry revolut...
Saturday, June 1, 2013

Editorial: Crises and Catastrophe (2013)

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Editorial from the June 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard When the market economy is booming there’s a tendency to assume this st...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Spirit of 45 (2013)

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Film Review from the May 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard Spirit of '45 directed by Ken Loach is an impressive but sentime...

Greasy Pole: Thatcher and Thatcherism – A Long Time Dying (2013)

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From the May 2013 issue of the Socialist Standard Hardly a day goes by without our being reminded that 2012 was a wonderful year. Not...