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
Civilisation in jeopardy
13 Jan 2022
Extreme weather is becoming typical weather, writes Eddie Ford, and the cause is undeniable: capitalism
Contradictions and ambiguities
09 Dec 2021
Market socialism, capitalism with Chinese characteristics, or a workers’ state? Michael Roberts takes issue with three recent books
Danger of barbarism
09 Dec 2021
Invisible to the eye, viruses and bacteria make up a good percentage of the global biomass. They also shape history. HIV/STD specialist and Marxist Mohsen Shahmanesh discusses microbes and human society. This article is based on his talk to the November 28 Online Communist Forum
Storm clouds gather
02 Dec 2021
Foreign policy has already been affected by the nosediving lira, but, argues, Esen Uslu, there is also the distinct possibility of mass protests over prices and wages
Don’t expect a roaring 20s
25 Nov 2021
Globally the economy is still living in the shadow of the pandemic and investment in productive capital remains extraordinarily low, says Michael Roberts
Socialism, shortages and surrender
18 Nov 2021
Not so masterly: Michael Roberts questions the much feted ideas of János Kornai
They will not deliver
11 Nov 2021
Market solutions are no solution. Michael Roberts castigates the sham, the hollowness of climate finance
Give a little and take a lot
04 Nov 2021
Though there was nothing, not a thing, on the environment. Rishi Sunak’s ‘big state, high tax’ budget had a distinctly populist feel, writes Eddie Ford
Malthus painted green
28 Oct 2021
Are there too many people? Jack Conrad attacks crude overpopulation theories. They are more than useless: they are extraordinarily dangerous
A 2.7 degree wake-up call
28 Oct 2021
The UK government’s response is woefully inadequate. So keep your expectations about Cop26 really low, advises a worried Eddie Ford
Delusions of techno-fix
21 Oct 2021
Today’s capitalist politicians are unlikely to agree, let alone implement, the measures needed to stop runaway climate change. Jack Conrad argues that the fundamental problem lies at the level of the system itself. Nonetheless, as shown by the Soviet Union, more than the mere abolition of capitalism is needed. The associated producers must take control
The wealth of nature
14 Oct 2021
There are still those who merely offer a mirror image of bourgeois ideology, with the claim that workers create all the wealth. Jack Conrad argues that nature more than contributes: it is primary
Facing ecological meltdown
14 Oct 2021
Eddie Ford is not surprised to learn that Britain is one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries
A disaster foretold
07 Oct 2021
HGV drivers, petrol, empty supermarket shelves - Britain’s dependence on global supply chains has been badly exposed. Paul Demarty investigates
Marxist monetary theory
07 Oct 2021
It is profit, not government spending, that drives capitalist investment, writes Michael Roberts