Socialist Standard
Journal of the Socialist Party
November 2000


Editorial
Now for pro-socialism

Rights Act is promise to pay of the bankrupt
Although Labour has made a big fuss about the Human Rights Act, those rights are subordinated to the interests of the capitalist state
Pik Smeet

50 Years Ago
On whom do taxes fall?

Imagine a world without law
Socialism will be a society without law, but not without problems
Gary Jay

Should the railways be renationalised?
Last month's derailment in Hatfield following on from the heavy loss of life in the Paddington rail crash has resulted in renewed calls from the Left for the re-nationalisation of the railways. But state ownership of the railways is in no-one's interest, except, at times, sections of the ruling class
Kaz

World View
Crisis in the Middle East, Euro or Krone?
John Bissett, Graham Taylor

Direct action
Just reformism by blows?
Adam Buick

Mr Brown
Short story
Heather Ball

Oscar Wilde and socialism
Alwyn Edgar

Letters
Who are the cowards? The Morgenthau Plan, How I became a socialist, Labour history

TV Review
The making of a president
DAP

Sickness and the system
BM

Obituary
Wally Preston

The Voice from the Back


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