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