No. 1314 February 2014

Socialist Standard February 2014 PDF

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Voice From the Back

• Action Replay: Playing On

• 50 Years Ago: The Coming Election

• Proper Gander: Who Benefits From ‘Benefits Street’?

• Book Reviews: ‘Poor Man’s Heaven’ & ‘State Capitalism and World Revolution’

• Book Reviews: ‘The World Until Yesterday’ & ‘The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame’

• Mixed Media: ‘The Threepenny Opera’ & ‘Hull Ferens Art Gallery’

• Cooking the Books: Green Recipe for Raging Inflation

• Political Vocabularies

• The Cost of Living Crisis

• The Throwaway System

• The Class Struggle in Cambodia

• A Lack of Imagination

• Greasy Pole: Ouch! What A Lovely War

• Material World: Hovels or Homes?

• Cooking the Books: Against ‘Redistributionism’

• It’s Not Your Country

• Halo Halo!

• Letter: Capitalism and Apartheid

• Pathfinders: Dirty Secrets

• Editorial: Let’s Get Political