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
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
Swift as a weapon
03 Mar 2022
Sanctions imposed on Russia will hurt, but not only are there definite limits, they were long expected, writes Yassamine Mather
From sanctions to slump?
03 Mar 2022
Michael Roberts looks at the dreadful consequences of the economic war being waged against Russia
Destroyed by economygate?
10 Feb 2022
After the “longest wage squeeze in 200 years”, workers in Britain face an unprecedented fall in living standards. Michael Roberts rejects the Bank of England’s call to “moderate” wage rises
Fuelling the cauldron
03 Feb 2022
Esen Uslu reports on the short-termist cuts in interest rates and the resulting inflation and political turmoil
Austerity socialists win
03 Feb 2022
The victorious Socialist Party is putting all its hopes in the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, says Michael Roberts, and has no intention of ending the country’s dependence on French and German capital. Not surprisingly the left coalition partners were hammered
A world of declining profit
27 Jan 2022
Michael Roberts reviews new empirical evidence vindicating Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, which underpins capitalism’s inherent tendency to crises
Economy in meltdown
20 Jan 2022
Amid unpaid wages, soaring inflation and daily protests in Iran, the Vienna negotiations drag on, reports Yassamine Mather
Civilisation in jeopardy
13 Jan 2022
Extreme weather is becoming typical weather, writes Eddie Ford, and the cause is undeniable: capitalism
Contradictions and ambiguities
09 Dec 2021
Market socialism, capitalism with Chinese characteristics, or a workers’ state? Michael Roberts takes issue with three recent books
Danger of barbarism
09 Dec 2021
Invisible to the eye, viruses and bacteria make up a good percentage of the global biomass. They also shape history. HIV/STD specialist and Marxist Mohsen Shahmanesh discusses microbes and human society. This article is based on his talk to the November 28 Online Communist Forum
Storm clouds gather
02 Dec 2021
Foreign policy has already been affected by the nosediving lira, but, argues, Esen Uslu, there is also the distinct possibility of mass protests over prices and wages
Don’t expect a roaring 20s
25 Nov 2021
Globally the economy is still living in the shadow of the pandemic and investment in productive capital remains extraordinarily low, says Michael Roberts