socialist standard    

 September 2006   

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 Contents

Click on thumbnail for Page1    Contents (you are here.) Page 2   Editorial (with links page)   Transatlantic airliner plot Page 3   Pathfinders   Globalisation - what does it mean? Page 4   Letters   Nuclear power; questions and answers Page 5   September 11, 2001: reflections on a somewhat unusual act of war   On the fifth anniversary of the al-Qaeda attack on New York and Washington, we reflect on this act of war and try to place it in its true political and moral context. Page 6 Continued from above Page 7   After Hezbullah, war with Iran?  Was Israel's attack on Hezbullah part of preparations for a coming US attack on Iran? Page 8 Continued from above Page 9  Globalisation - what does it mean?  The second part of our article analysing capitalist globalisation. Last month we looked at how this affected capital. This month we examine its impact on the world's population at large Page 10   Cooking the Books 1  Doing Business, the World Bank Way  Page11

Death of a Tendency The recent death of Ted Grant at the age of 93 has been a landmark, albeit a minor one, in British political history Page 12 Continued from above. Page13   Cooking the Books 2 “Mass Unemployment” Page 14   Political ideas in Africa A brief look at the history of leftwing ideas in Africa  Page 15   Desperate lies The man who faced the choice of dropping dead while waiting on the NHS list or bluffing  Page 16   Reviews Glasshouse; A Rebel's Guide to Gramsci; Coriolanus   Page17   Meetings 50 Years Ago The Suez crisis   O.& D.O.P. Our Object and Declaration of Principles   All of the above. Page 18   Greasy Pole Peter Hain   Page 19   Voice from the Back Conned, kicked, abandoned, and more + Free Lunch by RIGG Cartoon All of the above. Page 20

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