Free shipping on all items to the UK. Carefully packed and prompt delivery.             

SOCIALIST STANDARD: Vol. 107, No. 1279: March 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: 

Contact Details

Editorial
What's the alternative?

FEATURES

Egypt: The hard road to political democracy
What will happen in Egypt now? Will the army keep control until a new leader acceptable to the West emerges?

Tunisia -- people power, but...
All borders are mad -- it goes with the territory -- but perhaps the world's craziest border is that between India and Bangladesh

Zambia: the riots in Barotseland

A century of progress?
Workers are still being killed in fires in garment factories because of locked doors.

Wages and the cost of living (again)
As inflation begins to kick off again, is it a return to the 1970s?

REGULARS

Pathfinders
Double Bubble Trouble

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

Letters

Material World
Workers of the World -- in it together

Cooking the Books 1
Capitalism will not be controlled

Halo Halo
Jumpers for Jesus?

Tiny Tips

Greasy Pole
Grow up and understand

Cooking the Books 2
Was the crisis just a mistake?

Film Reviews
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
NEDS

Book Reviews
Crude World -- Peter Maass
Mutual Aid: An Introduction and Evaluation -- Iain McKay

Proper Gander
Brooker's Bile
    
Meetings

Action Replay
Supplying the Grid

50 Years Ago
"Democratic" Portugal

Voice from the Back

Free Lunch
(Cartoon)