50 YEARS A GO C OOKING T HE B OOKS 2 C OOKING T HE B OOKS 1 At the beginning of the 20th century Russia was in a critical situation. Something had to give, and in 1905 it did. An investigation into the workers’ cooperative set up in the bankrupt Bauen Hotel in the centre of Buenos Aires. G REASY P OLE P ATHFINDERS C ONTACT D ETAILS M EETINGS R EVIEWS F REE L UNCH L ETTERS A migrant worker reports on the same events. E DITORIAL 6 8 9 Tailcoated twit? Boris Johnson, page 19 14 16 18 19 20 18 3