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
Crypto unTethered
19 May 2022
Speculation is inherent in capitalism, writes Michael Roberts. That is why we have seen the appearance of cryptocurrencies
Understanding capitalist dynamics
12 May 2022
Ian Wright reviews 'How labor powers the global economy' by Emmanuel Farjoun, Moshé Machover and David Zachariah (Springer Publishing 2022, pp166, £90)
A new Marshall plan?
05 May 2022
The US and its allies see the war as a heaven-sent opportunity to weaken Russia, writes Michael Roberts. Next will come China - and the working class will pay the price
Stunts, problems and solutions
05 May 2022
The ‘right to buy’ scam exposes the Tories as the party of buy-to-let landlords, property speculators and City-boy financiers, argues Mike Macnair
Trouble in paradise
05 May 2022
Like other such territories, the British Virgin Islands is an outpost of corrupt City of London financial scams and operations, writes Eddie Ford
Split three ways
28 Apr 2022
Low growth and high unemployment will continue, not go away. Michael Roberts looks at the world’s fifth largest economy following the presidential election
Alternative to ‘restraint’
21 Apr 2022
Neither establishment explanation for the cause of inflation is valid, argues Michael Roberts
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part IV)
14 Apr 2022
There can never be a world capitalist state. Hierarchy and inequality between many states is an inevitable feature of capitalism
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part III)
07 Apr 2022
Capitalism produces huge wealth and huge inequalities, both of which play a role in recurring crises
Process of poverty
07 Apr 2022
Will there be a new Winter of Discontent in response to the cost of living crisis? Eddie Ford is hopeful, but it will only happen with organisation and challenging the grip of the trade union bureaucracy
Squeezing the poor
31 Mar 2022
The chancellor’s spring statement means increasing numbers will have to choose between eating or heating, writes Eddie Ford
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part I)
17 Mar 2022
Early, not late, capitalism generated imperialism, and capitalism without the state is impossible
First Iran, now Russia
17 Mar 2022
Sanctions, whether ‘targeted’ or not, inevitably affect the mass of ordinary people, argues Yassamine Mather, while those at the top use them to tighten their grip on power
Triumphalism to pessimism
17 Mar 2022
Does the Russia-Ukraine war epitomise a crisis of liberalism brought about by attacks from the populist right and the so-called anti-scientific left? Perhaps so - but not in the way Francis Fukuyama imagines, suggests Paul Demarty
Third great depression
17 Mar 2022
Not only are economic contradictions at play. There is the ecological crisis and, of course, war. Michael Roberts says that only socialism can save humanity