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
Eat football, sleep football, drop dead
13 Jun 1996
New words, same old ideas
06 Jun 1996
Hardly anyone could have failed to notice that the ‘stakeholding economy’ has become one of the buzz words of the 1990s - and even of the next millennium. Where has it come from and why does new Labour like it so much? Eddie Ford offers some explanations
NHS pocket calculator
30 May 1996
Old friends meet - but are they socialist?
02 May 1996
Russia and China
Blair courts US big business
18 Apr 1996
The warm welcome that US business and establishment figures gave to Tony Blair shows that their profits will be safe in ‘new’ Labour hands
Social disease
28 Mar 1996
Corrupt system limps on
22 Feb 1996
Scorched earth policy
15 Feb 1996
Social security cuts
The stakes are high
08 Feb 1996
Blair woos the market
11 Jan 1996
Businessmen and ex-dictators in Asia have been wooed by Tony Blair, as he makes clear his determination to safeguard the ‘enterprise’ economy
No future under Labour
16 Nov 1995
Clarke sharpens the axe
09 Nov 1995
Peter Lilley, hardly a friend of the working class, has been told to think again. His proposed £1 billion cut in social security spending was rejected as “not enough” by the Treasury. So, Lilley is now looking for fresh victims - single parents, young people, victims of industrial injury ...
Mere numbers on a page
02 Nov 1995
Squeezing out profit
10 Aug 1995
Blair attacks welfare as bosses’ pay soars
20 Jul 1995
As the bosses agree that they are worth every penny of the millions they pay themselves, more and more they are looking to Tony Blair’s ‘new Labour’ to screw down even harder on workers