July 2011 Socialist Standard

July 2011 Socialist Standard

Editorial:

Britain's care home crisis

Regular Columns

Pathfinders: Fission confusion

Cooking the Books 1: Good capitalism, bad capitalism?

Cooking the Books 2: Profits before petitions

Material World: Money - a waste of resources

Halo Halo: Why a socialist world won't be paradise

Greasy Pole: Calm down and listen

50 Years Ago: Britain and the Common Market

Main Articles

Is the crisis over? Whatever happened to the financial crisis?

Democracy and Capitalism Can capitalism and democracy co-exist?

The archbishop is right “We are being committed to radical, long-term policies for which no one voted” (The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams).

Pedalling in ever-decreasing circles A look at the old Clarion Cycling Club

Anyone know a lifestyle anarchist? Keep a look-out for people who are chock-full of undirected, ill-informed revolutionary gusto, but empty of any desire to organise their views into a coherent critique of the world.

What environmentalists are up against The continuing deforestation of the Amazon.

Letters, Book Reviews and Meetings

Letters to the Editors: Reformist charities; World War Two; Plain English

Book Reviews: Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology. Ed. Iain McKay (AK Press 2011); Marxism and World Politics. Contesting Global Capitalism. Ed by Alexander Anievas (Routledge 2011)

TV Review: Choosing To Die

Film Review: Jumping The Broom

Action Replay: Ring-Fenced

Socialist Party Meetings: Clapham, Glasgow, Birmingham & Manchester:

Voice From The Back

All Right For Some; The Middle Class Myth; A Dog's Life; The Class Divide; Law and Disorder

Rosa by Jonathan Rabb (Random House 2005)

Pimm bobbed his head as if conceding the point. He then took a towel and wiped his face. When he spoke, it was with a focus that was wholly unexpected: "The reason so many of you Reds are Jews, Herr Spartakus, is that a Jew is told to create heaven on earth. The next world, messiahs, fear of hell - never really been the point, has it? The Jew is meant to do it here, now. And the ones who get tired of waiting become Reds because for them, socialism is heaven on earth. The perfect world, and with no God telling them what to do this time. Everyone just as good as the rest. Everyone looking out for the rest. The Red can't tell you how you're supposed to get there - in fact, all he can tell you is what you're not supposed to do and what won't be there - but, still, he thinks he can build it. Sounds familiar, does it?" Pimm paused. "Your Red never loses what makes him a Jew; he simply shifts his focus." Pimm held Jogiches's gaze and then he turned to Hoffner. "You've get my help, Inspector, not because it's good for business, or because the devil I know is better than the devil I don't, but because even if nothing else of what you're saying is true, I have no interest in having one more lunatic tell me what my elimination is part of his grand plan." He shouted to the door. "Zenlo." The man appeared instantly. "We're going east. Tell the boys."

Pimm a Jew and a political one at that, thought Hoffner: the world was full of surprises. At least this one was working in their favour.