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
Rent-seeking as mass murder
06 May 2021
The row over vaccine patent waivers reveals the inhuman logic of intellectual property, argues Paul Demarty
Three million and rising
22 Apr 2021
With global deaths surpassing a significant landmark, Eddie Ford points the finger of blame for this horrendous example of social murder at government bungling and disorganisation
New financial fictions
15 Apr 2021
Michael Roberts spotlights the latest ways capitalists have come up with to cheat and swindle
Financial fictions
08 Apr 2021
What Marx described as the ‘purest and most colossal form of gambling and swindling’ continues today, but on an altogether bigger scale Michael Roberts looks at some recent examples
Tip of an iceberg
08 Apr 2021
Bribery, fraud, nepotism and graft are all endemic to the bourgeois order, writes Derek James
Capitalism and labour productivity
01 Apr 2021
Even non-Marxists have to admit that Marx was right. Michael Roberts looks at a newly published paper
AI and our tasks
01 Apr 2021
Yassamine Mather examines the many problems posed for the workers’ movement by artificial intelligence
In the era of pandemics
18 Mar 2021
Covid-19 has brought with it the potential for genuine transformation. Mark Kosman unashamedly looks on the bright side
In thunder and lightning
11 Mar 2021
Michael Roberts celebrates Rosa Luxemburg’s outstanding contribution to Marxist political economy
A century of dependency
25 Feb 2021
Foreign intervention did not come to an end with the 1979 revolution. No, as shown by Yassamine Mather, Iran’s Islamic rulers are more than willing to do the bidding of US-controlled international institutions
Revolution from above
18 Feb 2021
Small farmers are in revolt against the Modi government. Jeff Singh looks at the drive to replace peasants with capitalists
Problem is capitalism
18 Feb 2021
Michael Roberts asks what we should now expect: deflation, inflation or stagflation?
Dilemmas of great and good
21 Jan 2021
Mainstream economists cannot provide the answers needed to revive a system mired in stagnation. Michael Roberts reports on the annual gathering of the American Economic Association
Friedman doctrine in 21st century
17 Dec 2020
Monopolies are rule-makers and rule-breakers, but attempts to ensure free competition are utopian in the extreme, says Michael Roberts
Calling the shots
03 Dec 2020
How was Covid-19 vaccine developed with such tremendous speed? Michael Roberts looks at the key role of the state