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The century since the slaughter in the First World War has been littered with endless more bloody wars. Sally Campbell argues the drive to war is not accidental but inherent in the logic of capitalism.

Alex Callinicos’s new book Deciphering Capital argues that Karl Marx’s main work is still vital to understand how to change the world, writes Mark L Thomas

Thomas Piketty’s new economics book Capital in the 21st Century has become a bestseller. Alex Callinicos, author of the forthcoming Deciphering Capital, examines why

The number of billionaires living in Britain has risen to more than 100 for the first time.

In the second of a series on commodities that shaped the world, Simon Basketter looks at how brutal imperialist bosses turned useless rocks into a lucrative market

Can Marxism help us make sense of sport? Paul Blackledge mines Tony Collins's Sport in Capitalist Society and Michael Lavalette's collection Capitalism and Sport for some answers.

The notion that immigration is putting workers' wages under pressure is widely accepted even among some on the left. Yet this argument is both dangerous and wrong.

Lenin described Nikolai Bukharin’s Imperialism and World Economy as essential to understanding not only the economic basis of imperialism, but also its political and social impact. The book, which was published at the height of the First World War, set out to prove that the war was not a “descent into madness”, or to halt...

Politicians say “we” must change our ways to save the planet—but Sadie Robinson argues waste is built into capitalism

What is the state? Does it always act for the bosses or does it have its own interests? In the wake of the Mark Duggan verdict, Annette Mackin explains its role

100 years after Ford’s first automated assembly line, Simon Basketter looks at a workplace model that bosses still follow today

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