alanjjohnstone wrote:Perhaps
alanjjohnstone wrote:
Perhaps this months Socialist Standard could be reformatted and re-edited into a counter-pamphlet on HO equipment with an appropriate introduction, and if not all issues are covered – ie Robin Hood Tax, previous articles from archives can be included. The title can reflect the haste by being described as The Socialists Answer – Part One or whatever to show that we are prepared for an ongoing discussion. (hopefully a Part Two and Part Three would materialise)
OK, let's try to do something like this. I've just selected 20 articles on banking and money from the Cooking the Books column in the Socialist Standard since it started in 2005. At 500-600 words these are as short as the chapters in the Occupy booklet and they cover the same subjects as them, eg Basic Income, Ron Paul, Social Credit, Land Tax, Quantititive Easing, local currencies as well as banking and "credit creation". In all, about 12,250 words, so about the same length as theirs (and the same number of words as in the Standard).I'll send them to the Publications Department tomorrow. This should be do-able. Maybe also to them with a proposal to meet their Economics Working Group?