Socialist Standard December 2009 pdf torrent

Socialist Standard magazine December 2009 -

Front cover: ‘Mayfair? Not Fair!’
Editorial – ‘Copenhagen: Another Predictable Failure’

Features
‘Down and Out in Mayfair’ – homelessness in a rich country
‘Capitalism and Food Security – an Oxymoron’
‘The World Around You’ – how employment consumes our lives
‘Too Good to be True’ – conditioned to accept the absurdities and contradictions that capitalism throws up
‘Debating the S-word’ – is there any word more over-used and misunderstood today than ‘socialism’?
‘BNP – Question Time Without Answers’

Regular features -
Pathfinders (science / technology)
Material World – ‘The Advance of Capitalism’
Pieces Together – news cuttings from mainstream media
Cooking the Books 1 (economics) – ‘This Year’s Nobel Prize for Economics’
Cooking the Books 2 - ‘Free is Good’
50 Years Ago – ‘Second Thoughts’
Voice From the Back - selected news items
Free Lunch – cartoon
Book Reviews –
‘Why Not Socialism?’, by G.A. Cohen
‘Where the Other Half Lives: Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World’, edited by Sarah Glynn
‘Free: The Future of a Radical Price’ by Chris Anderson
‘Critical Social Theory and the End of Work’, by Edward Granter
‘Plebs’, by Colin Waugh

Plus letters, book reviews, meetings, etc.