Capitalism & Crisis > Neoliberalism
Neoliberal ghosts and the art of brevity
16 Sep 2010
Jack Conrad answers criticisms of the CPGB's Draft programme in the second of a three-part article
Hierarchy of automation
01 Jun 2023
Michael Roberts discusses Daron Acemoglu’s warning that artificial intelligence will be used to flatten living standards and increase capital’s profitability
Rates up, economy down
11 May 2023
Claims by bankers that, by upping interest rates, inflation will be pulled down are fallacious. Michael Roberts presents a Marxist explanation
Recipe for conflict
27 Apr 2023
Michael Roberts examines the continued role of the dollar, despite the hype about US decline and a multipolar world economy
Diabolus ex machina
06 Apr 2023
With Elon Musk leading the way in expressing worries about AI, Paul Demarty explains what is really going on
At whose service?
16 Jun 2022
Reform of primary care should not be trusted to the likes of Policy Exchange, writes James Linney. This ‘independent’ think tank was set up by Tories to serve the Tory agenda of cost-saving and profit-making
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
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
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
Bankruptcy of neoliberalism
19 Mar 2020
With countries everywhere on a ‘war footing’, writes Eddie Ford, the pandemic shows the necessity of global social control.
Inequality soars worldwide
16 May 2019
While the rich have never had it so good, writes Michael Roberts, the risks are increasing
Supply and demand quandary
13 Dec 2018
Both neoclassical and Keynesian economics have got it wrong, writes Michael Roberts
Free-trade tailism
22 Nov 2018
The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty has enlisted a clipped version of Marx and Engels to serve its political agenda. In the first of two articles Mike Macnair looks at the claims of free trade and protectionism
Universal credit: designed to punish undeserving poor
18 Oct 2018
Rollout of the new benefit is widely recognised as being in chaos, and the immediate answer lies in breaking with the politics of austerity, writes Eddie Ford