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
Dodgy bankers, dodgy clients
19 Feb 2015
Under both the Tories and New Labour, Britain became one vast tax haven - a playground for the super-rich. Eddie Ford looks at the HSBC scandal
The spectre of deflation
22 Jan 2015
Will falling prices help stimulate the economy? Michael Roberts argues that, on the contrary, profits will be squeezed
Resisting Renzi’s attacks
18 Dec 2014
Workers booed members of the centre-left PD off the platform during the rallies that followed last week’s 24-hour strike. Toby Abse reports
Troika demands more blood
18 Dec 2014
Eddie Ford thinks it is irresponsible to spread illusions in a Syriza-led government
No more the victim
18 Dec 2014
Anne McShane reports on the resistance to water charges.
‘March of history’ and the question of agency
13 Nov 2014
Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, Craig Calhoun Does capitalism have a future? Oxford University Press, 2013, pp192, £14.99
Agony and the ecstasy
23 Oct 2014
The current growth of the UK economy is unsustainable, says Michael Roberts. Indeed, there is a danger of another slump
Ebola: Crisis of infrastructure
23 Oct 2014
Ahmad Ebrahimi examines the root cause of the Ebola epidemic
Threat of social breakdown
16 Oct 2014
The Ebola outbreak in west Africa is a product of structural poverty and politics, argues Simon Wells
The current long depression and its nature
02 Oct 2014
Economic slumps are usually preceded by a decline in profits, writes Michael Roberts. This article is based on a presentation made to the CPGB’s Communist University in August 2014
Sex, drugs and R&D
11 Sep 2014
There are lies, damned lies, and headline economic statistics, writes Paul Demarty
What is the capitalist strategy?
11 Sep 2014
Hillel Ticktin looks beneath the hype about ‘recovery’ to expose the bankruptcy of the ruling class
Profit debate: And yet it moves (down)
14 Aug 2014
Irrespective of the specific causes of the 2008-09 crisis, writes Esteban Ezequiel Maito, there is an undeniable tendency for the rate of profit to fall
Not in awe of 'experts'
17 Jul 2014
Bruce Wallace and Steve Dobbs may view him as a ‘bungling amateur’, but Arthur Bough insists that they are wrong about the falling rate of profit
Incomprehensible and erroneous
11 Jul 2014
Did the tendency for the rate of profit to fall cause the crisis of 2008-09? Bruce Wallace and Steve Dobbs reply to Arthur Bough