Comment & Analysis

Playing the underdog

Steel plant to close after a century of production, raw material prices collapsing, China’s economy slowing, the ongoing euro crisis…

Sharp downturn in BRIC countries

The sudden plunge of oil and gas prices has underlined the volatility in the world capitalist economy

Clare Doyle reviews ’Eleanor Marx – A Life’ by Rachel Holmes

New technological innovations are having a huge impact on the capitalist system, a subject explored in a new book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society.

Thomas Piketty: The new Marx?

Exposing the ‘architecture of oppression’

To Save Everything, Click Here • By Evgeny Morozov •

‘Lenin’ by Lars T Lih

A small antidote to the misinformation about World War One the ruling class will unleash

How to change the world

This pamphlet by the firefighters’ union in Britain makes a case for using a publicly owned banking system as a tool for economic planning.

Defend all plants and jobs – save factories through nationalisation – for a 30-hour week at Opel/Vauxhall without loss in pay

"The movie’s meant to be an allegory for class warfare." – Neill Blomkamp, director

Directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn

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.

Representatives of the 1% pledge more austerity, war and environmental degradation

End the rule of big business, poverty and war

Increasing concerns and contradictions

Recently discovered photos of the Spanish civil war

The Troika’s bail-out package is an economic and social disaster for the people of Cyprus.

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?

"Treasure Islands: tax havens and the men who stole the world" by Nicholas Shaxson

No trust in capitalist government! No austerity for the Euro! Kick out the Troika! For a socialist alternative![Updated article, 25 March]

IMF and World Bank reduce growth predictions

Review of Bloody Nasty People: The rise of Britain’s far-right, By Daniel Trilling

A film about revolution and the appalling injustices of society – but the message is about individual salvation through love.

The massive social struggles around the civil war bring up important issues that are played out in the continuing battles today to end racial, class, sexual and gender exploitation under U.S. and global capitalism.

Factory closures in Europe’s auto industry spreading. Defend Bochum, Genk, Aulnay-sous-Bois, Southampton and Dagenham – for a united struggle to protect all jobs and factories

We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history

We are living through one of the most dramatic periods in history.

It is 50 years since The Beatles’ first single, Love Me Do, released on 5 October 1962, a rough sounding beat record.

Time to strike a united blow against EU/Troika austerity! For a European-wide day of general strikes and mobilisations this autumn! Towards a 24-hour all-European general strike!

Sıkıntılı bir süreç geçiren otomobil devi Fiat’ın patronu, aynı zamanda ACEA (Avrupa Otomobil Üreticileri Birligi) Başkanı Sergio Marchionne ’’bu, fiyatlar ve kar oranları için ölümüne bir savaş” diyerek Avrupa piyasasından yakınıyordu. New York Times’ın bu […]

Reaping the grapes of wrath

The problems of the eurozone, rooted in the clash of national interests and the rivalries of capitalist leaders, remain as intractable as ever.

Billions around the world suffer from either malnourishment or obesity.

Global capitalism is mired in depression. A Keynesian tract for our times by Paul Krugman proposes a way out

After a month of negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations in New York, the discussions came to an ignominious end last Friday when, first the United States and then Russia and […]

Status quo worshipping from the Hollywood rich list

What role has migration played in the development of capitalist society? What impact does it have in this time of savage austerity?

Take the wealth off the 1%!

Capitalist crisis and workers’ mass struggles take global dimensions

Capitalist leaders are in disarray as they strive and fail to get to grips with the eurozone crisis and its threat to the global economy

International Workers’ Day and the socialist alternative to austerity and barbarism

Challenging times for the left in Europe

The ‘dog eat dog’ mentality of the ’Hunger Games’ parodies today’s world