Economics

billionaires are grabbing more money
News

New billionaires every week

Report from Oxfam
24 May 2022
The New York Stock Exchange
Alex Callinicos

Is the global economy slipping out of control?

Ruling class worry workers will resist
24 May 2022
Prepayment key
News

Woman fights energy bosses—she says, ‘I can’t pay’

Woman blocks access for energy company
26 April 2022
The poor don't need to go hungry
What We Think

Don’t accept IMF demand that the hungry must eat less

The poor don't have to suffer
19 April 2022
Crumpled US dollar sits on top of a US flag
Alex Callinicos

Don’t count the US dollar out just yet

Ukraine war is shaking up international dynamics
05 April 2022
Chancellor Rishi Sunak
Background Check

Inflation is avoidable and needs a response from below

Cost of living crisis isn't inevitable
28 March 2022
Food supply lines will be impacted by war
News

Ukraine war brings threat of hunger and revolt

Food shortages grow
22 March 2022
At a cost of living protest
News

Sunak will not end cost of living crisis 

The Tories make us pay
22 March 2022
Musician Neil Young at a question and answer.
Comment

Neil Young and Spotify — music industry bosses are the real pirates

Artists pull music after Covid misinformation
13 February 2022
Alex Callinicos

Boris Johnson’s problems go deeper than parties

Cracks in the Tories appeared a while ago
24 January 2022
News

Poor will suffer as inflation rises to highest level in three decades

Worker's wages don't reflect soaring inflation
15 December 2021
Armchairs, open fire and Christmas decorations
Comment

Why the right like Christmas

Hark the cash tills ring
03 December 2021
JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon sat in a chair
Alex Callinicos

Why a top banker said sorry to China

JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon joked about China
29 November 2021
Features

Are increases in workers’ wages to blame for higher inflation?

Rising prices are hitting workers’ living standards.
27 November 2021
Features

Less than a six percent rise means a pay cut

Workers must not accept below-inflation pay offers
20 November 2021
News Image
Comment

No ‘pay rises’ below inflation

Many strikers are not winning the huge pay rises their unions claim they are
08 November 2021
Demand better than Tories’ Covid plan a or b
What We Think

Demand better than Tories’ Covid plan a or b

The Tories are risking tens of thousands of lives by refusing to consider any new measures to deal with the rising number of Covid-19 cases.
26 October 2021
The free market right is wrong on inflation
Alex Callinicos

The free market right is wrong on inflation

The alarm bells about inflation are ringing ever more shrilly across the world economy. Huw Pill, the new chief economist of the Bank of England, predicts that the official British inflation rate will hit five percent early next year.
25 October 2021
Interest rate rise will add to pressure on the poor
News

Interest rate rise will add to pressure on the poor

The Bank of England is preparing to raise interest rates in a move that will hit millions of mortgage payers and private renters.
19 October 2021
Blame the bust system
What We Think

Blame the bust system

Nobody wants to take the blame for fuel shortages, empty shelves and rising prices.
05 October 2021
Long Reads

Is neoliberalism dead?

Does the big spending response to the pandemic mean neoliberalism is really dead? Judy Cox explores.
26 September 2021
Evergrande shows China’s rulers can’t bank on ‘market miracle’ anymore
Features

Evergrande shows China’s rulers can’t bank on ‘market miracle’ anymore

As Chinese real estate giant Evergrande teeters on the edge, pundits are speculating whether its collapse could pull down the global economy. Socialist Worker looks at what’s behind the crisis
25 September 2021
Surge in inflation shows unions must lead fight over pay
News

Surge in inflation shows unions must lead fight over pay

Workers’ living standards have taken another hammering after inflation rose at its fastest recorded rate last month.
15 September 2021
The rise of private equity ­reveals reality of capitalism
Comment

The rise of private equity ­reveals reality of capitalism

Plundering is enjoying an unprecedented boom. The global value of deals carried out by private equity firms is set to reach $1 trillion (£723 billion) for the first time this year.
13 September 2021