Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
What is ‘financialisation’?
Financial capital used to take a back seat to manufacturing. Today the rich get rich by selling credit and debt, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
A trader at the New York Stock Exchange
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
FINANCIALISATION is the process whereby global financial institutions increasingly dominate our planet — the economy, society, the environment and our daily lives.
Financialisation is a shift in the composition of capital and in the way that capitalists accumulate wealth.
Following Britain’s industrial revolution in the late 18th century the principal source of profit — and the driver of capitalism — became the mass production and sale of goods — physical commodities.
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