No. 1291 March 2012

Socialist Standard March 2012

• Letter

• 50 Years Ago: Expensive Royalty

• Halo Halo!

• Action Replay: Kitted Out

• News in Briefs

• Voice From the Back

• Cooking the Books: Back to the 1930s?

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Material World: The Changing World Power Configuration

• Up Close and Personal

• Greasy Pole: Baby David Speaks

• Apple, Foxconn and The iConomy

• Apple and the Great Chinese Take-Away

• From Handicraft to the Cloud: Part 1 of 2

• Bankers Bonus Bonanza

• Whose Tax is it Anyway?

• Cooking the Books: Capitalism in Action

• Obituary: Bob Marshall

• Book Reviews: ‘Life without Money’, ‘From Dictatorship to Democracy’

• Film Review: Class Dismissed – How TV Frames the Working Class

• Pathfinders: Acta of Desperation

• Proper Gander: Point and Sneer