No. 1306 June 2013

Socialist Standard June 2013 PDF

• Cooking the Books: Bitcoin or Bit Con?

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Material World: Capitalism – Blind and Deaf to the Natural World

• Greasy Pole: Not Another Maggie Thatcher?

• The Left’s Catastrophic Logic

• Will Robots Cause Capitalism to Collapse?

• Capitalism Kills: The Bangladeshi Garment Factory Disaster

• Mount Everest: Top of Whose World?

• Climbing All The Way To The Bank

• Cooking the Books: Capitalism is Sharia-Compliant

• Mixed Media: ‘The Master and Margarita’ & ‘Ansel Adams’

• Book Reviews: ‘House of Earth’ & ‘No Revolution Anywhere’

• Film Review: Promised Land

• Editorial: Crises and Catastrophe

• Proper Gander: Hoard Today, Gone Tomorrow

• Pathfinders

• 50 Years Ago: The Labour Party Itching For Power

• Socialism is the Only Alternative

• Action Replay: The City and the World

• Halo Halo!

• Voice From the Back