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
Harmful change is intolerable
07 Apr 2016
Joint action is the way forward, says Richard Galen - and so is affiliation to the TUC
North and south
31 Mar 2016
What is the nature of modern imperialism, asks Michael Roberts, one hundred years after Lenin?
Social democratic corporate management?
31 Mar 2016
There is no common political interest between the working class and productive capital, writes Mike Macnair
Two strategic illusions
24 Mar 2016
Money can function fully only if it is world money, writes Mike Macnair
By your advisors shall you be known
17 Mar 2016
Yassamine Mather takes apart John McDonnell’s pledge of responsibility
Robots and capitalism
18 Feb 2016
Can new technology and artificial intelligence open up a new period of expansion for capital? Michael Roberts examines the possibilities and problems
Scams we are still paying for
11 Feb 2016
Michael Roberts reviews: Adam McKay (director/co-writer) The big short 2015, general release
Going nowhere fast
11 Feb 2016
The present period is one of transition, argues Hillel Ticktin. But how can we escape from the current impasse?
The impending global recession
28 Jan 2016
Blaming China is a diversion, argues Michael Roberts. The USA is still key
Stay as money, face death as capital
21 Jan 2016
How can capital extricate itself from crisis? Hillel Ticktin argues that it has no solution
Making inroads into power of capital
21 Jan 2016
We should support all measures facilitating an accumulation of productive capital, thereby placing workers in the most favourable position, argues Arthur Bough
And the band played on
14 Jan 2016
As Chinese woes once again spread throughout the world economy, Paul Demarty wonders what could shake the complacency of the bourgeoisie
Bureaucracy - in the state and on the left
10 Dec 2015
Mike Macnair reviews: David Graeber The utopia of rules: on technology, stupidity and the secret joys of bureaucracy Melville House, 2015, pp274, £9.47
Profitability and the dynamics of capitalism
26 Nov 2015
The faster the rise in productivity, concludes Nick Rogers, the more likely it is that the rate of profit will fall
‘Revolutions in value’ and capitalist crisis
19 Nov 2015
Despite the various criticisms, Marx’s analysis of profitability was basically sound, argues Nick Rogers