No. 1289 January 2012

Socialist Standard January 2012

• Editorial: Neither London nor Brussels, but World Socialism

• 50 Years Ago: The Common Market — the Real Issue

• Tiny Tips

• Too Many People or Not Enough Food Production?

• Voice From the Back

• Are You a Wage Slave?

• Book Reviews: ‘Why the West Rules – for Now’, ‘What Every Environmentalist Needs…’, ‘Born to Run’

• Proper Gander: Reflections on Black Mirror

• Action Replay: Pass the Port

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Pathfinders: The Speed of Enlightenment

• Letters

• Halo Halo!

• Cooking the Books: The Gnomes of the Market

• Material World: The Troubled-Teens Business

• Greasy Pole: Theresa May … or May Not?

• Rouble-makers (part two)

• Revolution or Reform?

• Capitalism on Trial?

• Cooking the Books: Clueless