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 FEATURES

6 Gun and knife crime
The recent spate of gun and knife crime has been taken as evidence that the country is descending into a chaos of uncontrolled violence.

8 Warring conscience
A personal statement from a former soldier who has become a socialist.

10 Northern Clay
Northern Rock is currently the focus of one of the most serious financial debacles in modern British history.

12 Poverty and famines
Why do famines occur? Because there’s not enough food or because people haven’t enough money to buy it?

14 Do anything now?
The Socialist Party’s contribution to a recent Go Change the World debate.

15 Opportunity Cost
It has always seemed strange to hear of Women’s Rights as if it were a minority issue.


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 REGULARS

3 Editorial
Moral Panic in the U.K.

4 Pathfinders
Socialism in the space age

5 Letters. Contact Details

11 Cooking the Books 1
Why they like a bit of inflation

13 Cooking the Books 2
Back to the Iron Age?

16 Reviews
The Blair Years; The Life and
Adventures of William Cobbett
;
The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany,
Stalin’s Russia
; After Socialism.
Reconstructing Critical Social Thought


18 Meetings

18 50 Years Ago
Sinn Fein


18 Principles

19 Greasy Pole
Gordon Brown - at last

20 Voice from the Back

20 Free Lunch