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
Fifty years of socialist theory
20 Jul 2023
Yassamine Mather looks at the role of the journal founded by Hillel Ticktin in 1973
L-content and price
13 Jul 2023
Moshé Machover expands on his arguments in favour of applying statistical reasoning to the problems of analysing capitalism at its most basic level
Road leading nowhere
06 Jul 2023
After 75 years the NHS has been driven into permanent crisis. The government’s ‘comprehensive workforce plan’ is no solution, it is mere electioneering, writes Ian Spencer
Hierarchy of automation
01 Jun 2023
Michael Roberts discusses Daron Acemoglu’s warning that artificial intelligence will be used to flatten living standards and increase capital’s profitability
On its last legs
18 May 2023
Mark Zuckerberg bet the farm on virtual worlds - and lost. Paul Demarty pours one out for the metaverse
Rates up, economy down
11 May 2023
Claims by bankers that, by upping interest rates, inflation will be pulled down are fallacious. Michael Roberts presents a Marxist explanation
Recipe for conflict
27 Apr 2023
Michael Roberts examines the continued role of the dollar, despite the hype about US decline and a multipolar world economy
Still far from human
13 Apr 2023
The widespread introduction of AI is unlikely to boost profit rates and rescue capitalism from its long depression. Michael Roberts explains
Diabolus ex machina
06 Apr 2023
With Elon Musk leading the way in expressing worries about AI, Paul Demarty explains what is really going on
50:50 for 1.5°C?
30 Mar 2023
Global warming looks set to continue for thousands of years, writes Eddie Ford. Yet not only are we still being sold pseudo-solutions like electric cars and carbon capture, but the government is still committed to sustaining the fossil fuel industry
Getting out the big stick
16 Feb 2023
As part of their war against the ‘economically inactive’, the Tories want to scapegoat and harass, writes Eddie Ford
Hypocrisy, lies and disinformation
19 Jan 2023
Exxon long knew about the catastrophic effects of global warming, writes Eddie Ford. But they denied it, because what comes first is making money
Not equality to compete
19 Jan 2023
Communists should demand special measures to protect women from capitalist exploitation, not ‘genuine equality’ in the workplace. Daniel Lazare investigates the Pump Act
Pagan origins and modern tinsel
15 Dec 2022
Official society combines crass money-making with celebrating the birth of the man-god Jesus. Knowing their history, a few Christians dissent, refuse to join in. Jack Conrad is all for the good things in life
Dying of the planet
15 Dec 2022
The Montreal conference on biodiversity was always, predictably, heading towards failure, writes Eddie Ford. Because of the Capitalian, the sixth mass extinction of species is already upon us