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
Prepare for the scarring
07 May 2020
After the lockdown ends we should expect the worst, warns Michael Roberts
Hitting the poor
30 Apr 2020
Peter Manson welcomes the limited success in restricting the pandemic, but it is clear that the problems are structural
Crisis and consequences
23 Apr 2020
Mike Macnair speculates about the longer-term effects of the Covid-19 shutdown
Euro’s corona crisis
23 Apr 2020
Covid-19 has brought EU contradictions to the fore, argues Michael Roberts
Testimony to failure
17 Apr 2020
Covid-19 highlights criminal levels of state dysfunction and inequality, writes Eddie Ford
Coronavirus and capitalism
17 Apr 2020
What characterises modern epidemics? Mohsen Shahmanesh places the current crisis in context
Self-organisation and solidarity
02 Apr 2020
Mutual aid is a positive development, writes Eddie Ford - so is the involvement of the left.
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.