Economics
What’s the real value behind the rich’s NFT digital art fad?
Capitalist financial trickery has hit new lows with the development of NFTs, or “non-fungible tokens”
Letters—Now the climate change horrors are coming home
The horrific effects of climate change have been growing for years.
Virus has created potential for boom—and bust
Are we heading, as some commentators claim, for another “Roaring Twenties”, like the economic boom that followed the terrible flu pandemic of 1918-19?
Covid has stirred up the labour market
The general agitation about inflation continues among the bosses
How the Corn Laws split the ruling class
It has been 175 years since the repeal of the Corn Laws. Isabel Ringrose explores how the bosses’ arguments over trade can open the door for working class resistance
Tories bank on Brexit divides in Ireland
Why did the Northern Ireland protocol to the Brexit agreement between Britain and the European Union figure so large at the G7 summit in Cornwall?
Is there a ‘new cold war’ between the US and China?
14 June 2021As US president Joe Biden goes on a mission to turn the West against China, Nick Clark investigates the competition between the capitalist states
Why Bitcoin is no game changer for capitalism
12 June 2021Digital currencies made to be untraceable were once touted as a democratic alternative to ‘real money’. Not anymore
G7 deal will not make big businesses pay their tax
07 June 2021Finance ministers from G7 countries gathered in London on Saturday to declare victory over corporate tax avoidance.
Letters—Profit amid Sri Lanka devastation
04 June 2021My home land of Sri Lanka is being despoiled by people who put money first. A chemical-laden cargo ship sank off the coast near the city of Colombo last week.
What is behind the fears about inflation?
01 June 2021One issue is dominating discussion of the major economies—inflation. This has to do with both reality and fear.
LETTERS—Halting deportations means keeping up militant response
25 May 2021We won a massive victory over immigration deportations last week on the streets of Pollokshields in Glasgow.
Neoliberalism is alive and useful to rulers
04 May 2021Is neoliberalism over? This is what many of its defenders are beginning to fear. Chris Giles, the economics editor of the Financial Times, recently lamented, “The left is winning the economic battle of ideas.”
Greensill scandal is still shaking establishment
20 April 2021The Greensill Capital scandal continues to ensnare top members of the establishment.
Greensill—corruption at the heart of the system
16 April 2021The scandal of former prime ministers joining with top civil servants to lobby the government for private sector gains grows hotter by the day. Sadie Robinson gathers what we know so far, and concludes that the problem is deeply rooted in capitalism
Financial institutions are funding climate destruction
11 April 2021Extinction Rebellion targeted banks last week as part of a campaign against their funding for fossil fuels. Sam Ord looks at global banks’ climate failures
Suez crisis driven by pursuit of profit
30 March 2021The Ever Given container ship was refloated on Monday. But the temporary closure of the Suez Canal showed a lot about world trade.
Secret lobbyists for rich
23 March 2021Top politicians have conspired to help firms drain cash from government Covid-19 loan schemes—and tried to keep it secret.
Debt is rising but the rich won’t be paying
08 March 2021Everyone is talking about debt. This is mainly because of the enormous amounts governments are borrowing to cover extra spending in responding to the pandemic.
Sunak’s budget will bring cuts, poverty and unemployment
28 February 2021The Tories are preparing to plunge many more working class people into poverty and despair. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is under pressure to keep measures that support ordinary people in this week’s budget.
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