Socialist Standard
Journal of the Socialist Party
February 2004

Editorial
Students as paying customers

50 Years Ago
I go - I come back

The Labour Party: unionism,reformism and"betrayal"
by Dan Read
How could the Labour Party betray principles it never held?

Is technology to blame?
by Pik Smeet
Buses powered by hydrogen - where Green utopianism failed, capitalist logic prevails

Off the rails in Ireland:
by Kevin Cronin
Is Brendan Ogle ultimately on the wrong track

Reids "health tourism" ride
by Max Hess
No, not the rich harvesting organs from the worlds poor,
but the poor being denied help here

Marx's Wage Labour and Capital
by Andrew Northall
Andrew givs a summary of some of Marx's ideas.

Fields of gold - for some
by Richard Donnelly
Something rotten down on the farm

Harold Shipman
by Max Hess
Shipman's psychological disorder was a product of capitalism, treating his patients as objects, rather than human beings.

Letters
Robert Tressell, State capitalism in Denmark

Book Reviews
Web of deceit. Mark Curtis,Vintage £7.99.
Britain's real role in the world
reviewed by PB

Tell me lies. David Miller, ed: Pluto Press £12.99.
propanda and media distortion
reviewed by PB

Why read Marx today? Jonathan Wolff,
Oxford University Press paperback, 2003.

reviewed by LEW

Obituaries
Alec Hart
Alf Crisp

Meetings
All our meetings are free
 and open to the public

Summer School
Just in (provisional)

Voice from the Back
and Free Lunch by Rigg



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