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 money?
Money is a a paper IOU note written by the bank which promises to pay the bearer the amount printed on the bill, right? Wrong, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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
“The first form of appearance of capital is money” (Marx Capital, Volume 1)
MONEY appears on the surface a simple thing; a “token of exchange,” something whose value is convertible into commodities through purchase.
Without such an intermediary, commodity exchange — the acquisition and disposal of goods — would be based (as it was before money was “invented”) on barter and extremely complicated.
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