The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
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A spectre is haunting global capital — the spectre of falling rates of profit
The ultra-low and sub-zero interest rates reflect a system afflicted by a falling rate of profit, says FAWZI IBRAHIM
CENTRAL ROLE: People wearing face masks walk past the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange in London
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how Western media are being forced to kowtow to the Establishment’s war narratives
MARC VANDEPITTE says AI is driving the pace of destruction to unprecedented speed
ADRIAN WEIR looks at the positives and negatives in the Employment Rights Act as delivered, and explains why the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom and Strike Map are rallying for a second Bill this weekend
The public recognise the corrosive influence of the rich over our democracy, argues MIKE COWLEY — it’s a shame the Labour Party doesn’t
THE much-discussed and sometimes ridiculed Marxist theory of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall has come into its own.
The historic low interest rates are testimony to its validity; ultra-low interest rates are recognition of ultra-low rates of profit.
The theory is dazzling in its simplicity. The rate of profit is the ratio of profit divided by capital expenditure also known as capital stock.
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