Capitalism & Crisis > Nature of crisis
A weapon for the movement
10 May 2012
Comrades in London are beginning their collective study of Marx's Capital. Jack Conrad introduces what is still an unequalled work
Profits first and foremost
05 Aug 2021
What causes slumps? Michael Roberts takes issue with those who imagine individual decisions and interest rates are key
Leopard and its spots
22 Jul 2021
With or without monopolies, the basis of capitalist exploitation remains the same, argues Michael Roberts
Problem is capitalism
18 Feb 2021
Michael Roberts asks what we should now expect: deflation, inflation or stagflation?
Marx’s double-edge law
15 Nov 2019
Despite the arguments of David Harvey, writes Michael Roberts Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is fundamental in understanding capitalist crises.
The heroes of finance
20 Jun 2019
Despite the efforts of central banks the risk of a new global recession continues to rise, argues Michael Roberts
From rentism to communism
13 Jun 2019
Peter Frase Four futures: life after capitalism Verso, 2016, pp160, £8.99
Trade and technology trigger
30 May 2019
Michael Roberts warns that the US-China trade war brings with it the threat of another global downturn
At what cost to humanity?
16 May 2019
Capitalism’s ‘terminal crisis’ cannot be resolved positively without a powerful left, says Rex Dunn
A delicate moment
18 Apr 2019
Capital’s major financial institutions are warning of the likelihood of another global recession, notes Michael Roberts
Growth across the world slows further and further
28 Mar 2019
Despite predictions to the contrary, says Michael Roberts, the long depression is still very much with us
Deadly cost of austerity
21 Mar 2019
James Linney asks what the fall in life expectancy tells us about the state of capitalism in 2019
Chartalism and Marxism
08 Feb 2019
Proponents of ‘modern monetary theory’ serve to mislead and divert the labour movement, argues Michael Roberts
Marx’s theory of value
31 Jan 2019
Far from being natural, value is characteristic of commodity production and capitalism, its most developed form. John Bridge upholds Marxist orthodoxy
Subjective and objective value
17 Jan 2019
Arthur Bough insists that value is labour and has therefore existed in every form of society
Working class trade policy
20 Dec 2018
Mike Macnair concludes his series on ‘free trade’ by looking at the positive alternative