No. 1325 January 2015

Socialist Standard January 2015 PDF

• Halo Halo!

• Are Socialists Sadists?

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Too Much Ado About: Primitive Fables, Hallucinations, Dreams, Myths

• Cooking the Books: Another Reform Goes Wrong

• Material World: The Price of Oil and Fracking

• Greasy Pole: Who You Calling A Pleb?

• Little Children Suffer

• The War in Gaza

• A Page of History: the 1834 Canut Revolt in Lyon

• Cooking the Books: Pie-crust Pie-chart

• Mixed Media: Our Big Land

• Book Reviews: ‘Things are Going to Get Worse and Why We Should be Glad’, & ‘Invisible – Britain’s Migrant Sex Workers’

• Theatre Review: ‘England Arise’

• Proper Gander: Do Have Nightmares

• 50 Years Ago: Churchill’s Birthday

• Editorial: Hopes for the New Year?

• Action Replay: Football – The January Transfer Window

• Pathfinders: Doing Something for Nothing

• Voice From the Back