Subjects Archives: Capitalism

THE very concept of sovereignty of third world nations is now being sought to be abolished by imperialism in violation of all canons of international law, as is evident from the bombing of Iran by U.S. and Israel with the explicit objective of effecting a “regime change”.

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends an unflinching analysis of the billionaire class that celebrates collective resistance to it.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote on social media that this was a “deliberately short-term measure” and would not be of “significant financial benefit” to Russia.

Marxist theorist and militant Chris Gilbert has been involved in the Bolivarian Revolution for two decades. In this interview, conducted on February 22, 2026, he offers an analytical reading that situates the recent escalation within the broader history of confrontation between Venezuela and U.S. hegemony, and examines its implications for the country and the region.

The Indian government appears to have abandoned even the remnants of neutrality, and thrown in its lot with the U.S.-Israeli side. What explains this stand?

What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and federal levels who refuse to push back? Right now, we see austerity budgets appearing across every institution and major employer in the U.S. If the federal government continues to sabotage municipalities, […]

To make sense of present developments it is essential to understand the dialectic of continuity and change in U.S. imperial grand strategy.

Lenin stated that he became a Marxist in the rural town of Samara, south of Kazan.

Brazil’s left, headed by the ruling Workers’ Party (PT), has long been a leading voice in Latin America against U.S. interventionism. When the United States launched its military action to kidnap Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2025, the Brazilian government and the PT joined a global chorus of shock and denunciation of this […]

The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY unpicks the two principal ways in which capitalists maximise the difference between what they put into the workplace and workforce – and the much greater profits they get out.

The death of James Petras—the American sociologist whose writings influenced generations of critical thinkers across continents—passed through the world almost like a whisper. A scholar who spent his life exposing the violence of power, the inequalities of global capitalism, and the illusions of empire left this world with little noise beyond small circles of readers […]

Tech billionaires and the Trump administration, with the apparent support of most of the capitalist class, are betting big on artificial intelligence (AI). In fact, AI investments have become the primary driver of US economic growth. But this is a losing bet for us. The AI boom is not sustainable. And because it is delivering […]

Tech billionaires and the Trump administration, with the apparent support of most of the capitalist class, are betting big on artificial intelligence (AI). In fact, AI investments havebecome the primary driver of U.S. economic growth.

As capitalism lurches from crisis to crisis, more and more workers are ‘superexploited’ – they receive less than the minimum deemed ‘socially necessary’ to support themselves and produce the next generation of workers, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

In February 2026, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 50,000. Television anchors called it strength.

The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, at the hands of U.S. imperialism marks a new and extremely serious escalation in the sustained aggression against Venezuela’s sovereignty. Far from being an isolated or exceptional event, this episode is part of a prolonged offensive that combines economic and financial warfare, political […]

The gold price against the U.S. dollar is back above $5000 per oz after its recent short sharp contraction last week. 

The 2020s have been “a good decade for billionaires”, according to Oxfam’s annual report on global wealth inequality.

In a recent editorial, the Washington Post characterized Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s diplomatic mission to Beijing as a “shortsighted” attempt to “troll” President Donald Trump. The critique suggests that Canada is blurring the line between pragmatism and naiveté, trading long-term security for a “show” of strategic partnership with a “dictator.” According to this view, […]

Michael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]