Comment & Analysis

Global Capitalism in Crisis

Video interview with Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales

End workers’ misery through genuine nationalisation and democratic socialist planning

Capitalist finance system nears meltdown

Karl Marx was right

Reviews of ‘The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future’ by Dan Atkinson & Larry Elliot

Price of petroleum is set in casinos of finance capitalism

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, By Charles R Morris

By John Green, Artery Publications, London 2008

Workers and Poor Masses Should Struggle for Socialist Alternative

Around the world, strikes, demonstrations and protests have erupted as millions upon millions of workers, peasants and poor face the horror of rapidly rising food prices.

A review of the latest book by economist and commentator Paul Krugman, ‘Conscience of a Liberal’

Flat Earth News by Nick Davies

A new stage of the crisis

Opportunities for socialists will develop in the next period.

US sliding into recession

Global capitalism faces its worst crisis since 1945.

Price hikes cause riots and struggles for higher pay

Build a socialist alternative

The global capitalist economy has been hit by a major credit crunch.

Implosion of US ’sub-prime’ housing bubble goes global

Over the last week, billions of pounds have been wiped off share values worldwide as stock markets plunged.

It is no accident that these books have been produced at this historical juncture.

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

25 anniversary of Falkland Islands/Las Malvinas conflict

Exclusive pictures by Paul Mattsson, cwi photographer. Pictures.

Pictures.

Socialists must build powerful alternative to capitalism

CWI supporters defend protesters

10,000 protesters successfully breached police lines

State repression will not stop peaceful anti-globalisation demonstrators

Protesters plan to blockade meeting of war criminals and exploiters

For people watching the television news, the coverage of the anti-G8 protests has been dominated by reports of violent clashes between police and some protesters.

Hundreds of thousands of G8 protesters will be in Germany demanding "poverty is made history", wars and occupations are ended, and that ‘climate change’ is reversed.

100,000s will protest their policies!

Financial bubbles and the overaccumulation of capital

An unmistakeable message from Will Hutton’s important book is that China is heading for revolution, although the author merely predicts serious ‘convulsions’.

Can poor loans system end poverty and hunger?

Capitalism creates grotesque inequalities

Since the early 1980s, world capitalism has followed a trajectory based on globalisation and neo-liberal policies.

Capitalism’s ruthless struggle for oil and gas

Was this merely a timely ‘correction’ of speculative bubbles or a preliminary tremor marking the onset of a deeper crisis?

The world economy today is hooked on fossil fuels: oil, gas and coal.

“Shock therapy to end the welfare state.” New book by Swedish right-wing author finds high praise amongst capitalists.

;Nine days that shook British capitalism to its foundation.

Nine days that shook British capitalism to its foundation.

Four schools continue to function despite freezing temperatures

Participants in the Venezuela Social Forum who registered with the media centre were invited to take part in a "ruta social".