Capitalism & Crisis
The decline of money
01 Mar 2012
If we are to understand the present crisis we need to grasp the decaying relationship between money, production and value. Hillel Ticktin discusses the growth of fictitious capital and impossibility of getting money to make money
Contradictions of capital itself
01 Dec 2022
Michael Roberts reviews Marx in the Anthropocene: towards the idea of degrowth communism by Kohei Saito (Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp300)
No wage-price spiral
24 Nov 2022
Michael Roberts investigates the old myth that wages drive inflation and rejects calls from governments, bankers and employers for workers to exercise pay restraint
Planet left to fry
24 Nov 2022
Eddie Ford is not surprised that Cop27 was a failure, all participants are committed to growth for the sake of growth
Tottering towards 2024
17 Nov 2022
Despite the economy ranking as the number one issue for US voters, the expected red wave failed to materialise. Michael Roberts examines the facts and figures
Twitter year zero
10 Nov 2022
What the hell is Elon Musk up to? Paul Demarty reads the tea leaves and spills the beans
Buyer’s remorse
03 Nov 2022
Meta’s stock market beating and Musk’s acquisition of Twitter paint a grim picture of the state of social media, argues Paul Demarty
Cold war set to heat up
27 Oct 2022
Michael Roberts expects a turn to self-reliance, urges less reliance on the capitalist sector and calls for democratic planning
Rishi’s one real god
27 Oct 2022
What is this mysterious thing called ‘the market’ that proposes and disposes of prime minsters? Paul Demarty looks at what controls the controllers
For whom the bell tolls
06 Oct 2022
The mini-budget fiasco and the humiliation of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng holds sobering lessons for the national socialist left, argues Paul Demarty
Desperate throw of the dice
29 Sep 2022
With the pound falling and yields on government gilts rising, markets are delivering their verdict on Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘growth plan’, writes Eddie Ford
Measure for measure
15 Sep 2022
Michael Roberts looks at the appalling life expectancy and human development figures in the 21st century
Background to the Capitalocene
01 Sep 2022
It is capitalism which lies at the heart of the climate crisis. Jim Moody explores possible technical solutions to what is, he argues, a social question
Migration delusions
04 Aug 2022
The Tory leadership rivals’ attempts to outbid each other on being ‘hard on immigration’ promote delusions, argues Mike Macnair
Energy as a weapon
28 Jul 2022
Michael Roberts looks at the fallout from the Ukraine war and how plans for an oil cap could trigger a deep recession
Game of fortunes
07 Jul 2022
Erdoğan is trying to divert attention from his shambolic handling of the economy by picking all manner of foreign fights. Esen Uslu reports