No. 1304 April 2013

Socialist Standard April 2013 PDF

• Editorial: Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela. Deceased.

• Proper Gander: Christianity’s Inanities

• Pathfinders: Telepathy – the Demolished Ego

• 50 Years Ago: A Message for Aldermaston Marchers

• Letters

• Action Replay: After the Ball Game

• New Internationalist: Forty Years On

• Voice From the Back

• Halo Halo!

• Cartoon: Free Lunch

• Cooking the Books: Hoping for Profits

• Material World: Mexican Drug Wars

• Greasy Pole: Calamity…Calamity

• Hugo Chavez: ‘21st Century Socialist’ or Populist Strongman?

• Supermarkets and Their Slogans

• Authenticity

• ‘Surplus Theory’ versus Marxian Theory

• Cooking the Books: Big Fish Swallow Small Fish

• Mixed Media: ‘The Arabian Nights’ & ‘William S Burroughs – All Out of Time and Into Space’

• Book Reviews: ‘Gerrard Winstanley – The Digger’s Life and Legacy’ & ‘Remaking Scarcity – From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy’

• Film Review: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari