No. 1311 November 2013

Socialist Standard November 2013

• Book Reviews: ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature’, & ‘The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism’

• Film Review: ‘Elysium’

• Editorial: What it Means to be Human

• Proper Gander: Fascist Pepperpots

• Pathfinders: Digging up the Dirt

• 50 Years Ago: Memories of a Lovely War

• Life Before and After Capitalism

• Action Replay: Scrum Down

• Halo Halo!

• Voice From the Back

• Cooking the Books: Dirty Talk at the Tory Conference

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Material World: The Future of Climate Talks

• Greasy Pole: Kinnock in the News Again

• Karl Marx: Anthropologist

• Steven Pinker Clarifies his Opposition to Socialism

• How Did Social Inequality Arise?

• A Modern Denial of Pinker

• ‘Hovis Bakers Win Strike in Wigan’

• Cooking the Books: Ed, Ralph and Karl

• Mixed Media: ‘Dylan Thomas’ & ‘Dick Gaughan’