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Finance capital
The history of capital since the Industrial Revolution shows that increasingly it is sucked into the realm of financial speculation.
Debt, trade imbalance, fake economic miracle. Yes, it’s happened before. In Germany
Germany has been directly and indirectly responsible for the mess the eurozone now finds itself in. And this is an issue on which the country has some form, around 80 years ago...
War and capitalism
Of the many unacceptable costs of living with capitalism, probably the biggest is its periodic tendency to generate orgies of mutual slaughter that originate in the same way. Contradictions and economic conflicts between capitalist blocs become increasingly antagonistic then eventually erupt into global wars.
Society and the working class
Human life is utterly dependent on social organisation and activity. Yet addicts of the free market declare that there is no such thing as society.
Boom produces bust
The surge in capitalist markets from 1997 to 2007 was only achieved by deliberate, reckless stimulation of credit growth, enacted through a combination of abnormally low interest rates (relative to inflation) and exceedingly lax regulation of both credit and housing markets.
Collective organisation
How did previous working class gains materialise? Improvements and reforms came out of past struggle and campaigns by organised workers.
1926: The General Strike
At a time when some are calling for a General Strike we need to get clearer about what happened last time there was one in Britain…
1941: The battle for Moscow
Seventy years ago the world held its breath as Nazi troops came up to the gates of the Soviet Union’s capital city... It was not only the greatest battle in the Second World War but also the largest battle ever fought between two armies.
The myth of the market
Over the past 32 years, Britain’s political leaders have lectured us with their mantra of disaster, “Let the markets decide!” Though the personnel in Downing Street have changed, the message has remained obsessively constant.
Unemployment – war on workers
We only have one shot at life. Consigning workers to periods of prolonged idleness is a criminal waste of talent and an indictment of this flawed society that treats us as just flotsam and jetsam.
Britain’s war against Libya
Britain’s brutally aggressive adventure in Libya is to be utterly condemned. Claiming falsely to protect civilians, British military jets are raining munitions from the sky on to Tripoli and other Libyan cities…