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To meet these needs we contend that capitalism must be replaced by socialism.


Publisher of Britain's oldest Socialist Journal   (Published since 1904)

                        July 2010 Volume 106 Issue 1271

July 2010
Editorial
The government declares class war
 The ‘savage cuts’ in spending by government departments,  cuts in housing benefit, a two-year pay freeze for public servants, less indexation for welfare benefits, price increases due to higher VAT, ...inaugurating a new  ‘Age of Austerity’ and ‘years of pain’, confirm that the role of governments is to run the state machine in the general interest of the capitalist class,.... That governments really are the ‘executive committee of the ruling class’ that Marx said they were. Read

Contents

 Editorial

Letters

Contact Details

Pathfinders

Material World

Cooking the Books 1

Cooking the Books 2

Tiny Tips

Pieces Together

Reviews

 50 Years Ago

The Greasy Pole

 Voice from the Back

Cartoon
Free Lunch

The axe falls – will anyone take on the axeman?
The Con Dem coalition government is promising a new “Age of Austerity”.
What should workers do about it?

They Say: “We Can’t Afford it.”
The aspirations of the majority of the world’s population are being
frustrated by capitalism’s economic constraints.
Tired, stressed, robbed and alienated
“The binge working culture is taking its toll.”

Easy Rider
The actor Dennis Hopper died on 29 May. He played Billy in the 1969
cult film Easy Rider.

German President tells the truth
How the German President, Horst Köhler, defended Germany’s military
action in Afghanistan.

August 2010 Volume 106 Issue 1272

Out soon
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 Features

NHS: short-term prescriptions

Communist Camp

Marx and the Ideology of Darwinism
 The second of our three-part article on Marx and Engels and Darwin.

Land Grab: win-win or win-lose?

Conversation with a hairdresser’s assistant
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Business Growth in Conflict With the Environment


Film of a public talk by Glenn Morris.
The Socialist Party,
London, 3rd July 2010

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