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Issue 7 - Winter / February 2010

Discussion, debate and authors' opinions

To encourage the broadest possible discussion and debate around the aims of exposing capitalism and promoting socialism, we hope our readers appreciate that not all the opinions expressed by individual authors are necessarily those of The Socialist Correspondent.

Commentary

Comment on this issue's content.

Quantitative easing: printing money to throw at the bankers

LESLIE MASTERS

Explains why the Bank of England is printing money to delibeately stoke inflation.

How ordinary citizens are drowining in debt

JANE McKINNON

Looks at the key findings of a Citizens Advice report "Drowning in Debt".

Charlie: a 21st centuary worker

JANE McKINNON

Reports on conditions at the Hewlett Packard computer assembly plant in Bishopton.

UK elections are seriously out of favour

JAMES THOMSON

Looks at the Labour and Conservative parties' electrol prospects ahead of the General Election.


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Extracts from the supplement

The Socialist Correspondent conference

Details of The Socialist Correspondent conference on 6 March 2010 and how to register for it.

Israel: anything the US will not support?

TOM BERNEY

Reports on the depressing signs from America.

Romania: life after the counter-revolution

PHIL CHAMBERS

Reports on life in Romania after two decades of capitalism.

The Brutality of German fascism did not begin with the holocaust

LEO KUNTZ

Translation by Pat Turnbull of an article thet appeared in the German Journal RotFuchs

Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camp

PAT TURNBULL

Cooperation is a powerfull survival trait

A. B. CAIRNS

Argues that humans survived because they cooperated with one another.

Readers Letter

LESLIE MASTERS

On Darwinism, Marxism and Dialectical Materialism