Capitalism & Crisis > Nature of crisis
A weapon for the movement
10 May 2012
Comrades in London are beginning their collective study of Marx's Capital. Jack Conrad introduces what is still an unequalled work
Not so new economics
26 May 2016
Michael Roberts reports on John McDonnell’s plan to ‘transform capitalism’
No substitute for politics
05 May 2016
Is it really as simple as ‘social networks vs the hierarchies’? Yassamine Mather takes issue with Paul Mason
Consistent, realistic, verifiable
28 Apr 2016
Michael Roberts reviews: Fred Moseley, 'Money and totality', Brill, 2016, pp436, £102
North and south
31 Mar 2016
What is the nature of modern imperialism, asks Michael Roberts, one hundred years after Lenin?
Robots and capitalism
18 Feb 2016
Can new technology and artificial intelligence open up a new period of expansion for capital? Michael Roberts examines the possibilities and problems
Going nowhere fast
11 Feb 2016
The present period is one of transition, argues Hillel Ticktin. But how can we escape from the current impasse?
Stay as money, face death as capital
21 Jan 2016
How can capital extricate itself from crisis? Hillel Ticktin argues that it has no solution
Profitability and the dynamics of capitalism
26 Nov 2015
The faster the rise in productivity, concludes Nick Rogers, the more likely it is that the rate of profit will fall
‘Revolutions in value’ and capitalist crisis
19 Nov 2015
Despite the various criticisms, Marx’s analysis of profitability was basically sound, argues Nick Rogers
Devotees of a dead Scotsman
21 May 2015
Was Adam Smith the champion of ‘free market and classical liberal views’? Chis Gray thinks not
The lucky generation and the historic limits of capital
12 Mar 2015
Optimism amongst mainstream economists is clearly misplaced, argues Michael Roberts
The spectre of deflation
22 Jan 2015
Will falling prices help stimulate the economy? Michael Roberts argues that, on the contrary, profits will be squeezed
‘March of history’ and the question of agency
13 Nov 2014
Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, Craig Calhoun Does capitalism have a future? Oxford University Press, 2013, pp192, £14.99
The current long depression and its nature
02 Oct 2014
Economic slumps are usually preceded by a decline in profits, writes Michael Roberts. This article is based on a presentation made to the CPGB’s Communist University in August 2014
Profit debate: And yet it moves (down)
14 Aug 2014
Irrespective of the specific causes of the 2008-09 crisis, writes Esteban Ezequiel Maito, there is an undeniable tendency for the rate of profit to fall