Economics

News

Tory Autumn Statement is blank cheque for bosses

Tory right demand more for rich at expense of poorest
21 November 2023
International

Argentina—hard right Javier Milei wins presidency

Workers must prepare for attacks
20 November 2023
News

Talk of ‘unsustainable’ pensions hides Tory robbery

Fight for a higher state pension
15 September 2023
Billionaires rule the City of London
Features

New report into billionaires reveals the ugly pyramids of wealth

A new report delves into the global rich
27 August 2023
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Alex Callinicos

Tories will demand austerity round 2.0

Labour remain uninspiring
18 July 2023
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What We Think

Pay rising? No, it’s falling

Rulers lie to stop fightback
11 July 2023
Civil servants in the PCS union on strike in London
Alex Callinicos

Neoliberal response to inflation still fails

Strikes respond to, not cause inflation
20 June 2023
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Long Reads

Financial markets: there’s trouble ahead, the rich should pay the bill

Crisis is deeper than banking
26 April 2023
Woman sells mangos in Sri Lanka
Alex Callinicos

Inflation and austerity plague Global South

Inflation hits double figures in many countries
25 April 2023
A mass Extinction Rebellion protest blocks main roads
Features

Degrowth—can it save the planet?

Waste and inequality are built into capitalism
16 April 2023
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Features

New Age of Catastrophe—Mapping out the crisis

New book argues for revolution
08 April 2023
Deutsche Bank officers in Berlin, Germany.
Features

Why this latest banking crisis is far from over

Deutsche Bank's market value fell £27 billion
31 March 2023
News

Money for rich and war, scraps for poor in budget

Another budget for the super rich
21 March 2023
Alex Callinicos

No easy way out from banking crisis

Central banks are running out of options
20 March 2023
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News

The Silicon Valley Bank crash and the fears of wider financial crisis

There's always money for bank bailouts
12 March 2023
Lula Brazil
Alex Callinicos

Lula will be met with challenges at every turn

It won't be easy for Lula
30 January 2023
World Economic Forum meeting
Alex Callinicos

Elites gather as need for radical change grows

Workers face economic crisis as rich meet
24 January 2023
Sci-fi robot examines equations on a blackboard
Features

Can a robot write for a newspaper?

Will DALL-E or ChatGPT steal our jobs?
15 January 2023
A picture of the US federal reserve state bank, with a rising graph superimposed on top of it
Alex Callinicos

The role of the state in profit-making today

Alex Callinicos critiques the ‘political capitalism’ theory
03 January 2023
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What We Think

Bosses tanked economy—don’t let them blame us 

Crisis was made by those in power
03 January 2023
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Alex Callinicos

2022 in review—a year of multiple crises

We can resist war and economic crisis
13 December 2022
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Letters

Letters—Capitalism is toxic whether it is expanding or shrinking

Should the economy degrow to save environment?
12 December 2022
Alex Callinicos

Southern powers flex muscles in Bali

Summit issued a statement decrying war in Ukraine
22 November 2022
Man looks at computer screens showing financial market in freefall
Comment

Is FTX collapse the last nail in the crypto coffin?

The collapse of FTX has sent cryptocurrencies diving again
19 November 2022