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
Economics of the madhouse
01 Dec 2016
Despite the construction boom, things are not boding well for Erdoğan, writes Esen Uslu
Integration and disintegration
01 Dec 2016
Hillel Ticktin outlines the political and economic forces at play in the European Union
Saint Bob’s bauble
20 Oct 2016
Dylan’s Nobel prize has little to do with him, and more to do with the flagging artistic establishment, argues Harley Filben
Rate of profit continues to fall
13 Oct 2016
Michael Roberts looks at the US data from 1948 to 2015
Turbulence ahead
06 Oct 2016
All the indications are that the global economy is heading for big trouble, writes Michael Roberts
The period of transition
06 Oct 2016
What does it mean to say that capitalism is in decline? Hillel Ticktin analyses the characteristics of the final stage
Media: old and new
15 Sep 2016
What is the impact of technology on the mass media? How can the left overcome its marginality in the public discourse? Should we trust Google searches? Paul Demarty addressed the past, present and future of the media at this year’s Communist University
Still stuck in the Jackson Hole
15 Sep 2016
It is profits that matter and investment that decides, writes Michael Roberts
Time running out fast
08 Sep 2016
Capitalism is a system unfit to cope with the ecological crisis, writes Eddie Ford
Abstraction in style
01 Sep 2016
George Monbiot How did we get into this mess? Politics, equality, nature Verso Books, 2014, pp352, £16.99
Festival of nationalism
04 Aug 2016
This year’s Olympics are even more grotesque than normal, writes Eddie Ford
Brexit, TTIP and TPP
21 Jul 2016
Michael Roberts examines a possible effect of a British withdrawal from the European Union
Fear, confusion and delusions
30 Jun 2016
Left responses to the referendum result vary from despondency to total exuberance. Both are misplaced, argues Paul Demarty
Brexit, China and the Fed
23 Jun 2016
The prospect of a global recession is very real, writes Michael Roberts
Gulag conditions are the new norm
16 Jun 2016
Jeremy Corbyn is spreading illusions about the ‘progressive’ nature of the EU bureaucracy, writes Eddie Ford