No. 1454 October 2025

OCTOBER 2025 PDF

• Editorial – The fruits of reformism’s failures

• Pathfinders – Withdrawal symptoms

• Letter – Conditions for socialism

• Cooking the Books 1 – Has Trump gone state-capitalist?

• Halo Halo / Tiny Tips

• Material World – Looking inside the doughnut

• Labour’s Department of War

• Nationalism and capitalism

• Flagging politics

• Away with all national flags!

• Irish presidential election (What’s the point?)

• All socialists now?

• Cooking the Books 2 – Death of a currency

• Charlie Kirk: A victim of his own ideology

• Proper Gander – Crafty cover-ups

• Book reviews – Ahmed, Kendall, Picketty/Sandel

• 50 Years Ago – An innocent abroad

• Action Replay – From Rome to Taiwan

• October 2025 events

• Life and Times – Chasing pigeons in the park