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
Political economy of chaos
10 Apr 2014
On the eve of the Critique conference Hillel Ticktin points to questions that need to be tackled
Osborne’s plans for election victory
04 Apr 2014
This year’s budget was meant to make older voters feel good and keep the housing bubble inflated. Eddie Ford looks back to March 19
Economic crisis: Only our class can force change
19 Dec 2013
After exploring the possibilities of capitalism ending the depression, Hillel Ticktin stresses the necessity of working class organisation
Virtual money: Exchange without value
12 Dec 2013
Anthony Rose looks at the growth of non-governmental virtual money
Austerity: His side is winning the class struggle
05 Dec 2013
Hillel Ticktin examines the balance of forces and the quandary of the ruling class
Capital’s labour of Sisyphus
28 Nov 2013
What next after the failure of plan A? There is little prospect of real growth, argues Hillel Ticktin
IT house of cards
21 Nov 2013
There is a disaster waiting to happen in information technology, warns Amir Parviz Pouyan
Tea Party: An enraged Frankenstein's monster
24 Oct 2013
The Tea Party seemed to come from nowhere. But nowadays it is turning on its big business patrons and threatening the interests of capitalism itself, writes Jim Creegan
Global economy: Too big not to fail
05 Sep 2013
The very size of the global economy produces a tendency to crisis, argues Moshé Machover1
Capitalism: Declining forms, failing system
08 Aug 2013
What does austerity tell us about capitalism itself? Hillel Ticktin discusses three key features
Eurozone: Road to nowhere
01 Aug 2013
Why does the European bourgeoisie insist on austerity despite the virtual certainty that it cannot succeed? Hillel Ticktin digs beneath the official claims
World economy: Unforseen consequences
04 Jul 2013
The market has failed and cannot but fail. Yet there are small intimations of fundamental change, argues Critique editor Hillel Ticktin
Brazil: Half riot, half carnival
27 Jun 2013
Pent-up anger has exploded. Millions have taken to the streets. Eddie Ford looks at the sorry results of the coalition politics pursued by a once much vaunted Workers Party
From finance capital to austerity muddle
13 Jun 2013
While economic growth is proving elusive, there are clear signs of stagnation and disintegration, argues Critique editor Hillel Ticktin
Review: Method and the dialectic
30 May 2013
Mike Macnair completes his review of: Guglielmo Carchedi, 'Behind the crisis: Marxs dialectics of value and knowledge'. Haymarket Books, 2012, pp303, £20