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
Left’s movementist delusions
13 Jul 2017
Neither a million-strong demonstration nor mass strikes would in themselves be likely to bring down the Tories, argues Mike Macnair. But, with the government weak and wobbly, the real question is what happens after a general election. Greece holds plenty of negative lessons
Racists and Islamophobes
06 Jul 2017
Following the triumph of the right in last month’s local elections, writes Toby Abse, the left appears more and more isolated
Fossil fuel era continues
06 Jul 2017
Predictions of an imminent decline of oil are misplaced, argues Jack Conrad. Along with global temperatures, consumption is set to rise
Optimism and pessimism
29 Jun 2017
What is the nature of capitalist crises? Paul B Smith weighs up two contending views
Seize, occupy, requisition
29 Jun 2017
Eddie Ford welcomes Jeremy Corbyn’s militant approach to the housing crisis
How about thinking like a Marxist?
22 Jun 2017
Chris Gray reviews: Kate Raworth Doughnut economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist Random House Business Books, 2017, pp384, £20
Capital in disarray
22 Jun 2017
The UK economy is set to enter a period of recession, argues Michael Roberts
Keynes or Marx?
18 May 2017
What is capital’s driving force? Michael Roberts explores the profit-investment nexus
Dictatorship and ‘democracy’
18 May 2017
Yassamine Mather reports on the final days of the presidential election campaign
A story of isolation
11 May 2017
Unification under capitalism can only but perpetuate inequality, writes Michael Roberts
Unplanning delusions
11 May 2017
The collapse of the Soviet Union does not prove that planning is impossible, argues Mike Macnair
Not back to normal
27 Apr 2017
The centre-right and the centre-left suffered defeat, but the markets are no longer in a panic. Yassamine Mather looks at the French ... and the Iranian presidential elections
Civilisation and the ‘long run’
06 Apr 2017
Will the Keynesian radicals become mainstream conservatives when the long depression ends? It is capitalism itself that is the problem, argues Michael Roberts
Karl Marx and ‘eco-Marxism’
30 Mar 2017
The threat of ‘ecocidal capitalism’ is linked to the absence of a class-conscious international proletariat, writes Rex Dunn
Creating a level playing field
16 Mar 2017
How is the law used to protect the interests of capital? Michael Roberts discusses the tension between competition and monopoly