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
Capitalist logic and NHS Logistics
21 Sep 2006
Privatisation of the whole of the national health service may not be on the cards just yet. But an important part of it is to be privatised in a few days. Jim Moody reports
Iran's workers need support
07 Sep 2006
Iran's president Ahmadinejad is a defender of neoliberalism, says Yassamine Mather
Decline and the transition to socialism
13 Oct 2005
Hillel Ticktin concludes his discussion on the theory of decline by examining its forms as capitalism makes way for a higher society
The theory of decline and capital
06 Oct 2005
In the first of two articles, Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, looks at the rise and fall of different modes of production and the problems of transition and non-transition
Political economy of aid
30 Jun 2005
What lies behind the establishment's 'campaign for Africa'? Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, looks beneath the hype
Fair trade or socialism?
08 Jan 2004
Ben Lewis reviews: George Monbiot, The age of consent Harper Collins, 2003, pp274, £15.99
Crumbling like powder
08 Jan 2004
Mehdi Kia, co-editor of 'Iran Bulletin' - Middle East Forum, on the Iranian earthquake and the fate of the islamic regime
A bridge too far
18 Dec 2003
Mike Macnair reviews: Graham Dutfield, 'Intellectual property rights, trade and biodiversity', Earthscan Publications, 2002, pp238, £24.95 Michael Perelman, 'Steal this idea: intellectual property rights and the corporate confiscation of creativity', Palgrave, 2002, pp242, £17.65 Peter Drahos, 'A philosophy of intellectual property', Ashgate, 1996, reprint 2002, pp272, £60
State, religion and exploitation
27 Nov 2003
Al Richardson, who died last week, made a valuable contribution to Marxist thought. As a tribute we republish his article on the Asiatic mode of production, based on an opening given to Communist University 2001
Rail maintenance renationalised
30 Oct 2003
On Thursday October 23 Network Rail announced that it was to take all track maintenance work back in house - effectively renationalising the majority of rail maintenance contracts. Bill Stanley reports
Anti-capitalism
21 Sep 2000
A decade after the self-collapse of bureaucratic socialism in the USSR and eastern Europe the world's big bankers and the pampered representatives of global capital meet over September 26-28. It is the IMF-World Bank's 55th annual conference and is being held in Prague with much fanfare - not least in order to mark the acceptance of the Czech Republic by the 'international community'.
Capitalism and its decline
16 Dec 1999
Many in the workers’ movement now accept what are erroneously called market values. So is capitalism set to dominate the 21st century? Did Marxism get it wrong about the decadence or decline of capitalism? Hillel Ticktin addressed the CPGB’s Communist University earlier this year on these and other questions.
Yeltsin’s last throw
19 Aug 1999
With the “failure of market capitalism” Russia continues its disastrous spiral
Prince of fools
10 Jun 1999
Triumph for new order
10 Jun 1999
South African elections