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
Whatever happened to those green shoots?
05 Nov 2009
Once again, says James Turley, it has not been a good couple of weeks for Alastair Darling and Gordon Brown
Anglo-American solutions and imposing discipline
06 Aug 2009
Peter Manson spoke to Hillel Ticktin about the economic crisis
Marxism and the inequality of nations
09 Apr 2009
Mike Macnair analyses 'world-system' theory and looks at Boris Kagarlitsky's attempts to overcome its weaknesses with his analysis of Russia
Studying the past to grasp the future
02 Apr 2009
Mike Macnair reviews Boris Kagarlitsky's Empire of the periphery: Russia and the world system London 2007, 384pp, £35
Capitalist crisis and the tasks of Marxists
07 Aug 2008
Campaign for a Marxist Party will shortly publish a manifesto, which is currently being prepared. This section on the political economy of the current period is authored by Hillel Ticktin
Down with utopia!
08 May 2008
The bankruptcy of the neoliberal model has created a vacuum for alternatives, writes Boris Kagarlitsky. If we do not fill it from the left, it will be filled from the right
Bush rushes to bail out system
31 Jan 2008
Jim Moody highlights some of the problems brewing for the world capitalist economy
More dangerous than ever
22 Nov 2007
Hillel Ticktin concludes his series on the relevance of Marxist categories with an examination of the theory of capitalist crisis and its application to the current global situation
Between a Rock and hard place
20 Sep 2007
The only thing certain in the current turmoil in the global financial system is more uncertainty, says Jim Moody
Triggers and real causes
13 Sep 2007
The reluctancy of the big five banks in the United Kingdom to lend money to each other shows how fragile the whole system of global finance capital really is, says Jim Moody
Debt crisis looms
02 Aug 2007
Last week a minor tremor shook the world of investments. Shares on the world's stock exchanges started to wobble and many fell markedly, causing some alarm in the financial sector. Jim Moody comments
Corruption and irrationality
19 Jul 2007
Jim Moody comments on the trial of Conrad Black, which highlights the enigma of 'capital without capitalists'
Floodtide of capital
28 Jun 2007
Mike Macnair locates the contradiction in capital's desire for free movement and its need to control labour
All-American hero
21 Jun 2007
AJ Byrne reviews Andy Stern's Getting America back on track: a country that works
Origins of fortress west
14 Jun 2007
What is the connection between the development of capitalism and restrictions on the movement of labour? In the first of two articles Mike Macnair traces such restrictions back to feudalism