Tuesday, December 19, 2006

December Socialist Standard 'Will The Waves Rule Britannia?'

The December Socialist Standard can also be viewed as a PDF here.

Editorial

  • Saddam's Death Penalty
  • Regular Columns

  • Pathfinders Hot Air Emissions
  • Cooking the Books #1 Stating the obvious
  • Cooking the Books #2Poor Woman's banker
  • Greasy Pole The Queen's Speech
  • 50 Years Ago Hungary and Suez
  • Main Articles

  • Capitalism and Climate Change The Market has failed. Long Live the Market!" is the illogical conclusion of the Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change published at the end of October.
  • The Stern gag - capitalist policies for capitalism's problems The Stern Report makes for grim reading, and suggests that time is running out to really address the environment question.
  • Whose thoughts are you thinking? Richard Dawkins, the biologist, has become something of a celebrity through his outspoken advocacy of atheism as in his new book 'The God Delusion'. But his approach to religion is still an idealist one.
  • Co-operation not competition Does competitive capitalism really deliver the goods?
  • Driven from Eden? Was the Neolithic Revolution entirely a good thing?
  • Parting with Leninism Extracts from an email received from a reader who has recently broken with a Leninist organisation, the New Communist Party (publishers of the 'New Worker')
  • Reviews, Letters & Obituaries

  • Book Reviews The Last Conflict by Pieter Lawrence; The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins; Crisis of Socialism By Randhir Singh
  • Film Review An Inconvenient Truth
  • Letters to the Editors Zionism & Structured Party
  • Obituaries Len Feinzing & Bill Ross
  • Voice From The Back

  • Profits and Oily Words; A Toxic Society; Cut Price Killers; Gangster Talk; Bull in a China Shop; An American Myth
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