No. 1309 September 2013

Socialist Standard – September 2013 PDF

• Egypt: Workers’ Struggles, Trade Unions and the ‘Left’

• The Civil War in Syria

• Capitalism or Socialism?

• Water, Waste and War

• Book Review: ‘Karl Marx – A Nineteenth-Century Life’

• Cooking the Books: A Reply to the New Economics Foundation

• Mixed Media: ‘The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution’ & ‘Ice Age Art’

• Book Reviews: ‘The Value of Radical Theory – An Anarchist Introduction to Marx’s Critique of Political Economy’ & ‘Disassembly Required – A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism’

• Book Reviews: ‘How I Killed Margaret Thatcher’, ‘The Human Front’, & ”The Alternative to Capitalism’

• Editorial: One State, Two States or No States?

• Proper Gander: Smoking Woodbines In The Outside Lav

• Pathfinders: Birthday Wishes

• Film Review: Searching for Sugar Man

• Propaganda Power… in Your Pocket

• 50 Years Ago: Mail Train Robbery

• Halo Halo!

• Action Replay: Street Football

• Cooking the Books: An Easy Match for Mammon

• Voice From the Back

• Material World: Mexico – The Disappeared

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Greasy Pole: All That Stuff – And Nonsense