No. 1303 March 2013

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• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Greasy Pole: Disturbance? In Westminster?

• Slavery and the US Civil War

• The Great(er) Emancipator — Frederick Douglass

• Film Review: Lincoln

• The SWP: An Undemocratic, Leninist Organisation

• Mali: the Background

• Mixed Media: ‘Julius Caesar’ & ‘Philip Glass at 75: Koyaanisqatsi’

• Book Reviews: ‘Bleakonomics’, ‘Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK’, ‘Shelley at Oxford’ & ‘The Lovely Horrible Stuff’

• Proper Gander: Night Of The Living Tweet

• Editorial: The Power to Say No

• 50 Years Ago: The Common Market

• Pathfinders: Flogging a Dead Horse

• Action Replay: Out of the Medals

• Islington By-Election

• Voice From the Back

• Theatre Review: The Accrington Pals

• Halo Halo!

• Cooking the Books: Value Creation and Extraction

• Material World: Cars and Socialism