January 2025 Socialist Standard Now Available On Line FREE

 

https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2020s/2025/no-1445-january-2025/

• Editorial – The change of rulers in Syria

• Pathfinders – The next big thing

• Hobson’s choice

• Cooking the Books 1 – A fuss about NICs

• Halo Halo / Tiny tips

• Material World – Will capitalism implode?

• Big Tech and the state

• How we live and how we might live (part 5)

• What is socialism?

• Fake socialism

• John Prescott: a Labour man through and through

• Cooking the Books 2 – Einstein got it right

• Film Review – Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

• Proper Gander – The latest celebrity to be accused

• Book reviews – Hannah, Corbyn/McCluskey, Saini

• 50 Years Ago – The fat of the land

• Action Replay – Make sport great again?

• January 2025 events

• Party news

• Life and Times – A letter to my son