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
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
Exposing the fault lines
20 May 1999
Philip Bounds reviews 'The origins of postmodernity' by Perry Anderson (Verso 1998, pp143, £11) and 'The cultural turn: selected writings on the postmodern 1983-1998' by Frederic Jameson (Verso 1998, pp206, £11)
Fight for what we need: The living wage and socialism
08 Apr 1999
What the system can afford is not the concern of communists, writes John Walsh. The demand for £300 per week minimum income must be part of a revolutionary programme
Neither the pound nor the euro
25 Mar 1999
European Union
End of triumphalism
15 Oct 1998
Despite the global financial crisis, capitalism will not collapse of its own accord, argues Michael Malkin
Uncontrollable forces
24 Sep 1998
Michael Malkin discusses the crisis of global financial markets
Economistic despair
03 Sep 1998
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