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What should we do about money?
One of the biggest challenges in post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain will be to confront the domination of Britain’s economy by the City of London and by international finance capital, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
ROS SITWELL reports from Europe’s largest feminist conference – hosted this year in Brighton
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER gives an update on the drive to raise £95,000 to see the people’s paper keep fighting the good fight against the rich and powerful
“My friends, I am not a communist” (Boris Johnson, 30 June 2020).
OUR last two answers argued that within capitalism money is much more than merely a facilitator of exchange.
Today, most money exists in digital form as credit and debt, created by central and private banks, disembodied from any physical manifestation, protected by the state and central to financialised capitalism where profits are increasingly disconnected from production of goods and services.
An understanding of the nature and function of money is a challenge to the government’s “good housekeeping” rhetoric and to Tina (“there is no alternative”) austerity.
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In the first of two articles, ROBERT GRIFFITHS argues that despite a parliamentary majority, Labour’s timid Budget fails to seize a historic opportunity and lacks the ambition needed to address Britain’s deep social and economic crises