economics

1990's pamphlet from ex-SPGB group "Socialist Studies" debunking commonly held misconceptions surrounding the banking system.

Article from Monthly Review on the effects of China's economic transformation on the working class since Mao's death.

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

A concise background to the current financial crisis and recession.

An analysis of the likely impact of the coming recession on workers' lives and a rallying call for collective action to mitigate that impact.

Loren Goldner's analysis of the recent global financial crisis.

An analysis of the use of inflation to attack workers' conditions.

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.

Mattick's classic work on the economic theories of Henryk Grossman and the dynamics behind the inevitable downfall of capitalism.

Paul Cardan (Cornelius Castoriadis) attempts to describe and analyse the features and dynamics of the fully-industrialised capitalist societies of the early 1960s.

Rob Ray looks at the economics surrounding the ‘Saffron Revolution’ in gas-rich Burma for Freedom newspaper

Rob Ray looks at the recent manoeuvrings of Private Equity and asks what relevance its growth may have