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What is ‘market socialism’?
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
China considers itself a socialist country but has embraced markets and globe-spanning chains like McDonald’s
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The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
October 2025 was another Black History Month. Has Britain learned anything – or are we going backwards, asks CLAUDIA WEBBE
Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken
VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence
MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures
ON THE face of it, “market socialism” may seem a contradiction in terms.
Capitalism is sometimes characterised as a “market” economy in which supply and demand regulate prices so that production and consumption remain in balance.
The reality of course is that it is a dysfunctional system, hugely exploitative of people and our planet and today dominated by multinational companies and financial institutions. It’s anything but a “free market.”
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