ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze
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
The recent calls to strip Michelle Mone of her peerage after she was caught scamming the public for £122 million should reinvigorate the longstanding progressive demand to completely abolish the entire undemocratic, corrupt relic, writes ELLIOT TONG
As gold hits $4,000 per ounce, soaring from only $250 back in 2001, the US national debt has reached $37 trillion — it’s all about to come crashing down, warns JOHN ELLISON, which our leaders would have known had they only studied Marx’s magnum opus Capital
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
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
“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