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
A war economy?
02 Apr 2020
What the pandemic has demonstrated, writes Michael Roberts, is that in a crisis the capitalist state has no alternative but to suppress the ‘free market’
An empire unravelling
02 Apr 2020
Daniel Lazare believes that Covid-19 could mean the end for the USA in its current form
The ‘Blitz spirit’
02 Apr 2020
Are we ‘all in it together’? Paul Demarty investigates
The Engels pause
20 Mar 2020
As we approach the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Engels’ birth, Michael Roberts< recalls the contribution he made to Marxist political economy.
Coronavirus, oil and capitalist decline
19 Mar 2020
Rex Dunn explains why he thinks they are all connected.
Bankruptcy of neoliberalism
19 Mar 2020
With countries everywhere on a ‘war footing’, writes Eddie Ford, the pandemic shows the necessity of global social control.
Coronavirus and the G20
29 Feb 2020
Global capital is at a loss on how to prevent another slump, argues Michael Roberts.
The wealth of nations
31 Jan 2020
Michael Roberts examines the controversies about using gross domestic product as a measure.
From socialism to ‘stabilising finance’
24 Jan 2020
Hyman Minsky acted as a forerunner for protagonists of today’s ‘modern monetary theory’, writes Michael Roberts.
Fixing the plumbing
12 Dec 2019
You will get nowhere if you do not understand the capitalist mode of production, says Michael Roberts.
Drowned in blood
06 Dec 2019
James Harvey concludes his thoughts on the 1918-19 German revolution, based on his talk at CU2019.
Marx’s double-edge law
15 Nov 2019
Despite the arguments of David Harvey, writes Michael Roberts Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is fundamental in understanding capitalist crises.
‘Correcting’ capitalist inequality
09 Nov 2019
Keynesian proposals for ‘tax justice’ are not the answer, writes Michael Roberts.
Global and national inequalities
17 Oct 2019
The global proletariat is continuing to grow and capitalism is mired in stagnation, writes Michael Roberts.
Intangible, but not immaterial
10 Oct 2019
The law of value is fully applicable to the commodification of knowledge, argues Michael Roberts.