No. 1320 August 2014

Socialist Standard August 2014 PDF

• Cooking the Books: The Falling Rate of Profit (1)

• Material World: China’s Ghost Towns

• Greasy Pole: Pray Silence for the Veterans

• Why the War Was Not Worth Shedding a Single Drop of Working Class Blood

• The Economic Causes of the First World War

• 1918 – Winners And Losers

• The Covenanters: the Scottish Taliban?

• Cooking the Books: The Falling Rate of Profit (2)

• Obituary: Richard Montague

• Obituary: Sandy Easton

• Editorial: World War One – A Disaster for the Working Class

• Book Reviews: ‘Charley’s War’, & ‘Chomsky On Anarchism’

• Pathfinders: Drinking from the Skulls

• Film Review: War Requiem

• Mixed Media: Oh What a Lovely War

• Proper Gander: The Downside of Upgrading

• Halo Halo!

• 50 Years Ago: The Verdict of History

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Action Replay: Team Spirit

• Why the Profit System Must Go