Socialist Standard October 2006

REGULARS 3 Editorial Leaders 4 Pathfinders Water Worlds 1,2 and 3. 5 Letters Ted Grant; Royalty; 5 Contact Details ..More 11 Cooking the Books Salt sellers ] 16 Reviews Human Cargo; Marx's Das Kapital; A Rebel's Guide to Marx. 17 More reviews The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 17 Meetings 18 Obituary Joe Richmond 18 O.& D.O.P. Our Object and Declaration of Principles 18 50 Years Ago Mass Suicide 19 Greasy Pole Life after Blair? 20 Voice from the Back Exploitation; American Dream; Big Brother, and more 20 Free Lunch by RIGG Cartoon. More
FEATURES 6 Left, Right and Centre As the Party Conference season begins we look at politicians' politics. 8 Bored with politics? Politics is not just about the antics of career politicians - or at least doesn't have to be.
10 Will Labour lose? The present Labour government appears to have run out of steam, but trading one group of career politicians for another is not the answer. 12 Keynes's World (A Capitalist Utopia). Maynard Keynes imagined a society that would be centred on the pursuit of enjoyment rather than accumulation, but like other reformists he couldn't fathom a future without money and commodities.
14 Zionism: myth and reality. Zionism misled many Jewish workers with its promise of a "homeland for Jews". A recent book examines the fate of the million or so non-Jews in the state Zionism established.