No. 1299 November 2012

Socialist Standard November 2012

• Free Lunch

• Greasy Pole: Contrickery in Conference

• The Monarchy and Politics

• Eric Hobsbawm: Historian and Leninist

• Half Marx: Flanders Flounders

• Fyah Inna Babylon – A Marxist in the Media

• Why We Need Socialism

• Culture Reviews: ‘The Pre-Raphaelites’ & ‘What Joe Orton Saw’

• Cooking the Books: Value and Surplus Value

• Book Reviews: ‘Dot.compradors: Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry,’ & ‘Just War’

• Editorial: The Spidergate Chronicles

• Film Review: ‘Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro’

• Pathfinders: Bodging the Badger Debate

• Proper Gander: The Magic and History Tour

• Sport and the Spirit of Capitalism

• 50 Years Ago: A Plea for Human Survival

• Halo Halo!

• Action Replay: Inheritance Tactics

• Brief Reports

• Voice From the Back

• Cooking the Books: From Lame Ducks to Zombies

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Material World: Coal Mining Insanity