No. 1279 March 2011

Socialist Standard March 2011

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Voice from the Back

• Greasy Pole: Grow up and understand

• 50 Years Ago: “Democratic” Portugal

• Action Replay: Supplying the Grid

• Tiny Tips

• Proper Gander: TV

• Film Review

• Book Reviews: “Crude World”, “Mutual Aid: An Introduction and Evaluation”

• Cooking the Books 2: Was the crisis just a mistake?

• Cooking the Books 1: Capitalism will not be controlled

• Halo, Halo! – Jumpers for Jesus?

• Material World: Workers of the World – in it together

• Production Values

• Pathfinders

• A century of progress?

• Wages and the cost of living (again)

• Zambia: the riots in Barotseland

• Tunisia – people power, but…

• Egypt: The hard road to political democracy

• Letters

• Editorial: What’s the alternative?