No. 1299 November 2012

Socialist Standard November 2012

• Free Lunch

• Why We Need Socialism

• Culture Reviews: ‘The Pre-Raphaelites’ & ‘What Joe Orton Saw’

• Cooking the Books: Value and Surplus Value

• Book Reviews: ‘Dot.compradors: Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry,’ & ‘Just War’

• Film Review: ‘Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro’

• Editorial: The Spidergate Chronicles

• Proper Gander: The Magic and History Tour

• Pathfinders: Bodging the Badger Debate

• 50 Years Ago: A Plea for Human Survival

• Sport and the Spirit of Capitalism

• Action Replay: Inheritance Tactics

• Halo Halo!

• Voice From the Back

• Brief Reports

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Cooking the Books: From Lame Ducks to Zombies

• Material World: Coal Mining Insanity

• Greasy Pole: Contrickery in Conference

• The Monarchy and Politics

• Eric Hobsbawm: Historian and Leninist

• Half Marx: Flanders Flounders

• Fyah Inna Babylon – A Marxist in the Media