8 Work as it is (and could be)
Work is a "four-letter word" today under capitalism, but our view of it might
change in a society where it is solely a means of improving the quality of our
lives.


11 Profit laundering: what's justice got to do with it?
"Tax Havens Cause Poverty" proclaims the home page of the Tax Justice
Network. No, they don't. The profit system does.


14 Social responsibility and corporations
Can corporations be trusted, or even expected, to have any social
responsibility?


15 Thicker than Water/Obituary of a capitalist ?
The Stagecoach story: a lesson in the random nature of business success
.

16 Capitalism Chinese-style
Chinese capitalism is becoming less and less different from the kind found in
the West.


17 The last time the police went on strike
What we said in 1919 about the police unrest and strikes of that time. Ironically
today's demonstrations are organised by the Police Federation, the company
union set up in 1919 to stop a real union being organised.




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3 Editorial  

4 Pathfinders
Emission Control? ­ We Have A
Problem


5 Letters

5 Contact details

6 Material World
Nuclear weapons


13 Cooking the books 1
Ever heard of tryvertising?


18 Cooking the books 2
The price of bread


20 Reviews
Multinationals on Trial;
Selling
Olga...;

21 Reviews
Economics Transformed;

Bronterre O'Brien and the
Chartist Uprisings of 1839
.

21 Meetings

22 50 Years Ago
Old familiar faces


23 Greasy Pole
The mass debaters


24 Voice from the Back
Ten Wasted Years
; This is
communism?
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Profits
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24 Free Lunch




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