The Socialist Standard
Journal of The Socialist Party
May 2000


Contents

Editorial
Against capitalism?

Why should we have to pay for things?
Though we are called the Socialist Party, we do not stand for what other "socialists" call for
Max Hess

A mayday from the sinking ship
May day as a cultural event seems to be dying, and becoming a mere preserve of the official Labour movement
Pik Smeet

Banks - Who needs them?
SC

Reflections on "Reflections on June 18"
BM

50 Years Ago
Misery from surplus: profit from disaster

Another leader called Tony
The leader of the SWP goes to his final resting place on the presidium of the great soviet in the sky
Dave Perrin

Obituary
Len Young
Ron Cook

World View
Ethiopia, Indonesia, Ireland, Scotland

Book Reviews
The unions we deserve, Agitprop, Global Tyranny

TV Review
See you, Jimmy

Greasy Pole
The death and life of Selsdon Man

The Voice from the Back


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