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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

  • 16-year-olds get right to vote.
  • Longest life-span animal under threat.
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  • The Starmer Labour government
  • Day meeting on building a mass communist party Saturday 8 February
  • Russian Tensions
  • Underplayed Classics

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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

  • Por un mundo de acceso libre
  • Pourquoi le conflit au Moyen Orient?
  • A propos des "bons de travail"
  • Le mythe de la pénurie
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