Elephant on a skateboard - S Artesian S Artesian writes for Insurgent Notes on how the very mechanism of capital accumulation becomes a barrier to its own accumulation.
The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience - Paresh Chattopadhyay Paresth Chattopadhyay's book elaborating on Marx's concept of capital and applying it to the economy…
Return of the crisis: Part 1 Aufheben analyse the causes and nature of the credit crunch and subsequent financial crisis.
Economics of the war economy - Paul Mattick Mattick looks at state intervention in the post-war American economy.
Frequently Asserted Fallacies of the Crisis and How to Quash Them As the government's savage cuts swing into motion, The Mute Collective and John Barker take on some…
Are the cuts necessary, and does it matter? Oisín Mac Giollamóir responds to a debate on whether UK capitalism ‘needs’ to make the cuts.
Capital - Karl Marx The complete text online of Marx's Magnum Opus, Capital: a critique of political economy, a devastating critical analysis of capitalism.
NOT all in this together The Government’s “tough but fair” budget will hit the poorest the hardest, as well as having a disproportionate impact on women, two reports have…
The great money trick - Robert Tressell The passage from Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' in which one of the characters cleverly outlines how the use of money…
Chapter 1 of the first edition of Capital: The Commodity - Karl Marx Translation of The Commodity the original chapter 1 of the first edition of Das Kapital.
A very great year? - Eve Smith Eve Smith discusses the aims and effectiveness of Nixon's economic policies on the working class in the America.
Artificial scarcity in a world of overproduction: an escape that isn't The one strategy open to crisis-ridden capitalism that doesn't risk class antagonism is the creation…