Comment & Analysis
Review: It’s time to take over the banks
This pamphlet by the firefighters’ union in Britain makes a case for using a publicly owned banking system as a tool for economic planning.
Comment & Analysis
World Economy
Car industry: Closure of Opel factory in Bochum – why no uproar?
Defend all plants and jobs – save factories through nationalisation – for a 30-hour week at Opel/Vauxhall without loss in pay
Comment & Analysis
Movie Review: Elysium
"The movie’s meant to be an allegory for class warfare." – Neill Blomkamp, director
Comment & Analysis
Review: Good Vibrations
Directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn
Comment & Analysis
Review: The new capitalist elite
Plutocrats wield power and influence by virtue of their wealth. The ultra-free-market, globalised capitalism of recent years has produced a new breed of super-rich plutocrats.
Comment & Analysis
G8 Summit: What did those behind the ‘Ring of Steel’ decide?
Representatives of the 1% pledge more austerity, war and environmental degradation
Comment & Analysis
G8 summit: No to G8 austerity
End the rule of big business, poverty and war
World Economy
World economy: “Central banks are flying blind”
Increasing concerns and contradictions
Comment & Analysis
Spanish civil war: Opening the mexican suitcase
Recently discovered photos of the Spanish civil war
World Economy
World economy: Behind the stock market surge
In the first week of March share prices surged on the New York Stock Exchange followed by other major exchanges. Does this signify a revival of the global capitalist economy?