June 2007 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Goodbye To Bambi

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Old Bones

Cooking the Books #1 Economic Cycling

Cooking the Books #2 Back To The Seventies?

Greasy Pole Baldwin versus Blair

50 Years Ago Communist Commotion

Main Articles

The Illusion of Freedom We are always been told that we live in a free society, but do we?

Camouflaging Class Rule Our society is routinely described in terms that camouflague the reality of exploitation and class rule.

What Free-Access Means Socialists often describe socialism as a society where there will be free access, but what could this mean in concrete terms?.

Maoism as a class society: illusion and reality Both supporters and opponents saw China under Mao as an egalitarian society without hierarchy but this was an illusion.

Unvarnished history of the Panama canal The story of the building of the Panama Canal at the turn of the last century is an exposé of the operations of the capitalist system.

Philosopher, heal thyself Marx said that philosophers only interpreted the world. To what extent has the philosopher Julian Baggini done this?

Charity versus equity Commentary on a recent action aid letter citing a number of manifestations of the iniquities of global capitalism.

Letters, Reviews & Meetings

Letters to the Editors 'Labour Leaders' & 'Thieves and Robbers'

Book Reviews Oil Wars edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said & A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle

Meetings London, Manchester & Birmingham.

Voice From The Back

They Call It Democracy?; Prisoners of Want; They Call It Truth?; Tough at the Top ; Down and Out Down Under; So What's New?