The Shadow of September 2008 Continues to Lengthen It is now 11 years since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. The crisis in the real economy, instead of fading from memory, has become a fixture.
Capitalism's New Economy: The Working Class On re-reading this piece, what is striking about the picture of the working class in capitalism's self-styled service economy in 2006 is how much…
Review of Money and Totality by Fred Moseley Today, as the global economy flounders from crisis to crisis, Marx’s analysis of capitalism is the essential basis for a correct understanding of…
Capitalism's New Economy: The Illusion of a Productive Economy Part four of this article was written before the biggest financial crash was followed by the biggest…
Capitalism's New Economy: The Booming Financial Sector Part three of this series was published in 2005, two years or so before the great financial crash…
Capitalism's New Economy: The Value of Capitalist Services This second article in our series examines what is meant by ‘services’ and their apparently key role…
Capitalism's New Economy: The Case of the UK The article here, the first in a series on what was then dubbed the "new economy", originally appeared in the CWO's political journal,…
Climate change must be a thing: it's on prime time TV The political establishment will try co-opting new climate protest movements, such as Extinction…
A Decade Since the Financial Crash The world economy is in poor shape and the American economy is in even worse condition. The 2008 crisis has not been resolved and many analysts…
Mexico: Is It Business As Usual? The recent massive victory of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who headed up a left populist movement in Mexico was greeted with jubilation by the…
Critique of Bourgeois Science - Microeconomics: From the Explanation of Value to the Invention of Marginal Utility up to the Mathematical Praise of the Market - GegenStandpunkt This critique by the German Marxist group GegenStandpunkt traces back the logical…