Most currently popular arguments for degrowth describe a real problem without recognising its true cause – capitalism’s insatiable need to accumulate, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Most phenomena have an explanation, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY, but occasionally ‘anomalous’ events have led to new scientific understanding

The fight to defend public services is as important as the struggle over wages, but presents different challenges to workplace organising — especially with regards to bourgeois propaganda and conditioning, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Marx and Engels’ concern with soil provides a focus for understanding the relationship between capitalism and the environment, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Statues and other icons can enforce power and domination but they can also help us challenge that power, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School

The increased efficiency of any aspect of capitalism will not automatically lead to its collapse and transformation — avoiding the dangers and realising the potential of AI will involve struggle, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Dependency theory reveals the ‘hidden skeleton’ underpinning capitalism today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

For many Labour Party members, deciding whether to leave or stay will turn on the quality and politics of their local councillors and MP, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

The arms industry is at the heart of capitalism today; we need to confront both, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Social ownership and democratic control of the means of production, distribution and exchange needs to include effective feedback mechanisms to ensure that output and demand are in balance, writes the Marx Memorial Library

Ahead of the forthcoming centenary of Lenin’s death, the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY takes a look at his major works and their significance

If anything, the demand to reform land ownership was stronger in the past. It is no less pressing today and it needs to go far beyond the ‘right to roam,’ explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

A governing elite of land-owning, industrial, and increasingly finance capitalists owns what we might consider 'our' land — and our skies, seas and rivers are next, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Financial deceit has long been a feature of British capitalism, even if this isn’t always obvious, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

A whole host of damaging measures, from cuts to casualisation, outsourcing and raising the retirement age, are deployed for one reason: to fight the inevitable decline of profits, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Nationalism needs to be analysed in terms of its specific content and context in order to understand its nature, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

It may seem that Marxism’s promotion of internationalism and class coming before country means it opposes ‘the nation state’ — but the truth is actually one of pragmatic acceptance, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

In their 100th Full Marx column, the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY looks at how socialists have grappled with the direction and framing of working-class self-education over the last 200 years

Humans are uniquely concerned with a ‘reason to live,’ so traditionally turned to religion. The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY investigates whether science, and the science of Marxism, have offered new answers

Ultra-leftism is not a single set of ideas but a syndrome that always places political action or demands way ahead of what is achievable – often intentionally, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY unpicks the two principal ways in which capitalists maximise the difference between what they put into the workplace and workforce – and the much greater profits they get out

You remove the boss and the owners, leaving workers equal in management and production: job done? Not quite, but co-ops should not be casually dismissed either, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

As long as we permit capitalism to exist, there will be cycles of development and decay, of gains and losses for capitalists, and of successes and failures for the working class, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Human nature is not fixed; it has changed throughout history and will continue to do so, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Did the entire British working class constitute a labour aristocracy during the colonial era? Do highly skilled tech workers now? The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY investigates a controversial but useful area of communist discourse

What is made, how it’s made, who it’s made by and who for define not just those involved in the process but entire eras of human civilisation, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY examines the economic development of the People’s Republic of China

Social democracy is not simply the gradualist, reformist wing of our movement — a peaceful approach to establishing socialism — but a fundamentally opposing ideology of capitalism and war, explain's the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Capitalism depends on continued expansion — so does that mean that after a certain point, we will run out of resources and markets and face calamity? Only if we blindly follow the 'logic' of the market, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Finance capitalism didn’t fall from the sky fully formed: before you can invest, you must steal and before you can employ, you must enslave, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY. But was it just a stage, or does it exist today too?

The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY outlines why the ideas of the ruling class are always the ruling ideas – and how to respond

Normally, you would need to combine a forest with labour to produce capital — e.g. furniture to be sold. Today however, nature can be traded to ‘offset’ damage done elsewhere, locking us into a vicious cycle, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Although originally pitched against inequality, intersectionality theory eventually lays the groundwork for 'diversity' to become the watchword of corporate ethics, not a way of uniting oppressed identities against capitalism explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

There is a renewed effort to lump those that started the Holocaust in with those that ended it based on simplistic ideas of 'totalitarianism' — this ignores fundamental differences in intent and outcome, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Allied to class, identity is a powerful force – but liberalism is a killer, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Imperialism is a particular feature of capitalism that is still with us today – but how has it developed over time, asks the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY