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Are cryptocurrencies ground-breaking assets for capitalism?

April 27, 2022 Robin Clapp

Cryptocurrencies have been hailed as innovative and ground-breaking assets that can have a transformative effect on the world economy. In the second article in our series ‘busting economic myths’, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) […]

Economy

The 1973 oil price shock: Are we headed for a new period of capitalist stagflation?

April 25, 2022 Dave Reid, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

As we head towards double-digit inflation, the Tory government in Britain is trying to offload blame for the huge price rises in fuel and gas by pointing to the price shock that has taken place […]

World Economy

Volatility in world supply chains

October 11, 2021 Judy Beishon, from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

The recent acute shortages of energy, goods, and labour in some sectors in the UK stem in large part from UK-specific capitalist failings. But the volatile world situation is part of the background to those […]

Pandora papers

‘Pandora papers’ put capitalism in the dock

October 5, 2021 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

The explosive leaking of 6.4 million documents and 1.2 million emails, the ‘Pandora papers’, showing the grotesque activities of the super-rich, stashing billions of US$ in offshore accounts to avoid tax and to launder money, […]

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Socialists and the four-day week

September 27, 2021 Iain Dalton, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, with fears of rising unemployment as the furlough scheme is wound up, and the full extent of the economic scarring from the pandemic is revealed, there are also […]

World Economy

‘Casino capitalism’ reaches new levels as inequality grows

March 4, 2021 Robin Clapp, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Across the globe, at least 2.4 million people have now died from contracting Covid-19. Livelihoods have been wrecked and economies have crashed, with the world economy shrinking by over 4% and the UK suffering a […]

World Economy

Global capitalism at most perilous since 1930s

January 13, 2021 Robin Clapp, from The Socialist (Issue 1116), the weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

For over a year, the Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe, causing over two million deaths and unleashing enormous economic and social crises. 2021 has ushered in new lockdowns in the UK, Germany […]

World Economy

Super-rich tax evasion costs equivalent of thirty four million nurses worldwide

December 15, 2020 Dave Gorton

Around £320 billion is lost annually to corporate tax abuse and private tax evasion, the equivalent of nearly 34 million nurses’ salaries, according to the Tax Justice Network. Poorer countries are most affected, with tax […]

World Economy

Worldwide capitalist crisis deepens – step up the fight for socialism

October 7, 2020 Hannah Sell, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary

A decade ago, following the worldwide financial crash, a Financial Times editorial congratulated capitalism on a bit of luck that “the left” was “missing in action in what should have been its finest hour. In […]

World Economy

‘FinCEN Files’ expose rampant financial corruption

September 29, 2020 James Ivens

The intimate connections between organised crime, high finance, and the capitalist state have been exposed. Documents leaked from the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) detail over $2 trillion of suspect transactions over two decades. […]

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