Tuesday, May 01, 2007

May 2007 Socialist Standard - All Capitalists Now?

Editorial

  • Scottish Nationalism
  • Regular Columns

  • Pathfinders Crystal Ball Gazing
  • Cooking the Books #1 Underlying Cause
  • Cooking the Books #2 Just A Yellow Metal
  • Greasy Pole Hazel Blears – nuts in May?
  • 50 Years Ago Should Irish workers support the I.R.A.?
  • Main Articles

  • Forever Blowing Bubbles Those attracted by the ‘buy-to-let’ bonanza, turning themselves into mini-rentiers in a bid to escape wage slavery forever, are likely to get their fingers burnt.
  • William Wilberforce was no saint Wilberforce was opposed to slavery, but what were his views on wage slavery?
  • The anti-war Right The US anarcho-capitalist Libertarians are wrong to think that capitalism could exist without a state or that its competitive struggle for profits does not lead to wars.
  • It’s a bloody crime – or is it? “The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business” (Clarence Darrow).
  • The Military are not that Unintelligent Military planners can’t afford to be stupid - as a recent MOD publication shows.
  • China: primitive accumulation of capital During the last quarter of a century millions of Chinese peasants have migrated to the cities. But has life improved for them?
  • Letters, Obituary, Reviews & Meetings

  • Letters to the Editors 'Racism' & 'Climate Change'
  • Obituary Pieter Lawrence
  • Book Reviews London Hanged by Peter Linebaugh & Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills by Jürg Blech
  • Meetings Glasgow, Birmingham, London & East Anglia.
  • Voice From The Back

  • How the Other Tenth Live; Primitive Accumulation of Capital; Mind the Gap; Escape (I); Escape (II); Getting Things Done
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