The grand bluff: private profits, social risks In this 2008 feature for Freedom, published shortly after the first major bank bailout as the recession began to bite, Iain McKay explains the…
Democratic Russia has little cause for optimism In this interview originally published in Freedom in 2008, Rob Ray talks to Vadim, a Russian anarchist, about the state of the country in that…
Banking and Credit Myths - A Socialist View 1990's pamphlet from ex-SPGB group "Socialist Studies" debunking commonly held misconceptions surrounding the banking system.
Conditions of the working classes in China Article from Monthly Review on the effects of China's economic transformation on the working class since Mao's death.
Regeneration, but not for miners Funding for the coalfields has been lauded by the government as a stunning transformation of old mining communities through free-market activity allied with government nous. But buried in amongst the back-slapping are figures which show the ex-miners themselves have been left in the cold while the wealthy profit around them
What recession means for us An analysis of the likely impact of the coming recession on workers' lives and a rallying call for collective action to mitigate that impact.
The biggest ‘october surprise’ of all: a world capitalist crash - Loren Goldner Loren Goldner's analysis of the recent global financial crisis.
Inflation: rising prices and the 2% pay ceiling An analysis of the use of inflation to attack workers' conditions.
UK: One in four will live in fuel poverty Over 14 million people could find themselves in fuel poverty in the near future, if new figures from gas giant Centrica predicting a 70% rise in gas prices prove accurate - nearly a quarter of the population.
The permanent crisis: Henryk Grossman’s interpretation of Marx’s theory of capitalist accumulation - Paul Mattick Mattick's classic work on the economic theories of Henryk Grossman and the dynamics behind the inevitable downfall of capitalism.
Modern capitalism and revolution - Paul Cardan Paul Cardan (Cornelius Castoriadis) attempts to describe and analyse the features and dynamics of the fully-industrialised capitalist societies of the early 1960s.
