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SOCIALIST STANDARD: Vol. 107, No. 1278: February 2011

Price: £1.50
Subtitle: 
Journal of The Socialist Party of Great Britain - Companion Party of the World Socialist Movement
ISSN: 
0037 8259
Number of pages: 
24
Introductory blurb: 

The Socialist Party is like no other political party in Britain. It is made up of people who have joined together because we want to get rid of the profit system and establish real socialism. Our aim is to persuade others to become socialist and act for themselves, organising democratically and without leaders, to bring about the kind of society that we are advocating in this journal. We are solely concerned with building a movement of socialists for socialism. We are not a reformist party with a programme of policies to patch up capitalism.

We use every possible opportunity to make new socialists. We publish pamphlets and books, as well as CDs, DVDs and various other informative material. We also give talks and take part in debates; attend rallies, meetings and demos; run educational conferences; host internet discussion forums, make films presenting our ideas, and contest elections when practical. Socialist literature is available in Arabic, Bengali, Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish as well as English.

The more of you who join the Socialist Party the more we will be able to get our ideas across, the more experiences we will be able to draw on and greater will be the new ideas for building the movement which you will be able to bring us.

The Socialist Party is an organisation of equals. There is no leader and there are no followers. So, if you are going to join we want you to be sure that you agree fully with what we stand for and that we are satisfied that you understand the case for socialism.

Contents: 

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Editorial
The power to change the world

FEATURES

Let the walls come tumbling down
How much longer are you willing to sit around and let a tiny minority divide us?

The craziest border in the world?
All borders are mad -- it goes with the territory -- but perhaps the world's craziest border is that between India and Bangladesh

Ghana – can oil make a difference?
Who will benefit from the discovery of offshore oil in Ghana?

An unrepentent banker
Bankers’ bonuses: who’s to blame for the greed?

Capitalism’s crisis of legitimacy
Capitalism's current crisis is not just economic and financial.

REGULARS

Pathfinders
The final frontier

Production Values
A sideways glance at capitalism through some of its products. This month: bottled water

Material World
Training to Kill, Training to Sell

Cooking the Books 1
Doom and gloom

Halo Halo
Witch side are you on?

Tiny Tips

Greasy Pole
Nothing New in Old and Sad

Cooking the Books 2
Ed's Dad

Film Review
Made in Dagenham (Shane Meadows)

Book Reviews
Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis -- Chris Williams
A Users Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation: And How to Save it -- Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Proper Gander
Know your onions
    
Meetings

Action Replay
Cue for a change

50 Years Ago
The Strike in Belgium

Voice from the Back

Free Lunch
(Cartoon)