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2020s >> 2020

No. 1388 April 2020

Socialist Standard April 2020 PDF

The pages in the above PDF are out of synch and couldn’t be dealt with in time due to coronavirus logistics at the time of printing.

  • Editorial: Capitalism struggles to cope

  • Pathfinders: Under Siege

  • The trade in footballers

  • Coronavirus: The Italian experience

  • Market Panic : Capitalist Hysteria

  • Cooking the Books I: Capitalism catches a cold

  • Wood for the Trees: A ‘Man of his Time’

  • Material World: Proxy warring in Syria

  • Arbroath 1320-1820: A History of Them and US

  • Irish Capitalism: Who Cares Who Runs it

  • Inequality: Labour’s Straw Men

  • Socialism, Communism, Association—A rose by another name

  • Transport : Future Travel

  • Plastic: Container Crisis

  • Cooking the Books II: Iron asteroids and golden meteorites

  • Proper Gander

  • Reviews

  • Atheism: Transcending superstition

  • 50 Years Ago: French “Communists” support wages system

  • Letter: A good question

  • Rear View

  • Free Lunch

Live Forum Topics

  • Underplayed Classics
  • The Economics of the Lower Phase of Communism–MHI Zoom Meeting, June 14
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  • The Reformation and the Rise of the Nation State
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June 2026 Socialist Standard No. 1462

RSS Socialism Or Your Money Back

  • Watch out Makerfield, you’re about to be conned again!
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  • Dark Paths. How AI, Profit and Power Are Shaping an Uncertain Future
  • What’s happening in Canada: ZOOM
  • The Architecture of Autistic Order: WSR

RSS Africa’s Socialist Banner

  • Africa: A Marxian Analysis
  • Southern Africa - severe drought warning
  • Kenya: Soaking the Poor
  • Zimbabwe: Shock horror, government losing out on taxes.
  • IMF still forcing austerity on Africans

RSS Mouvement Socialiste Mondial

  • Arrêtez de blâmer les politiciens
  • Les troubles en Iran (1980)
  • L'Iran dans la ligne de mire
  • Les principes du socialisme
  • « Taxer les riches » ?

RSS Movimento Socialista Mondiale

  • La cortina fumogena dei prezzi
  • Stranieri nel nostro mondo d'origine
  • Violenza e guerra: sono inevitabili? Una visione a lungo termine
  • Che cosa significa “post-scarsità”?
  • “Il socialismo non può funzionare, i socialisti si dimenticano sempre della natura umana”
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