No. 1310 October 2013

Socialist Standard October 2013 PDF

• Cooking the Books: The Death of the Middle Class

• Mixed Media: ‘LS Lowry’, & ‘Hedda Gabler’

• Editorial: What About Nuclear Weapons?

• Book Reviews: ‘Bitter Experience Has Taught Me’, ‘Spanish Anti-Fascist ‘Prisoners of War’ in Lancashire, 1944-1946’, & ‘Siding with the Oppressor’

• Pathfinders: ‘Smart’ is the New Black

• Film Review: Le Capital

• Letters

• Proper Gander: Left In The Dark

• Halo Halo!

• 50 Years Ago: Demonstration in Washington

• SWP Fallout

• Action Replay: Close of Play

• Cooking the Books: In or Out – Who Cares?

• Voice From the Back

• Material World: Who Are ‘The Poor’?

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Greasy Pole: Obsessed With Disorder

• Mind the Gap

• Left Unity – for Socialism or for Reformism?

• Statement of Aims and Principles for the [Left Unity] Party (‘Socialist Platform’)

• Left Unity, Broad Church

• Back to the Future for Working Conditions

• Confessions of a Fetishist