Subjects Archives: Capitalism

The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensions are building behind the scenes over the party’s economic programme. On December 12, 2025, just over 3 months since Zack Polanski’s election as party leader – the […]

Debunking the tired old Myth that “Communism works in Theory and Not in Practice”

Some of David Graeber’s basic assumptions about money and public provisioning limit what the left can imagine and accomplish.

The choices we make in the coming years will determine whether the global economy continues down a path of extreme concentration or moves toward shared prosperity.

If the maintenance of full employment is impossible under capitalism, then so is the maintenance of a welfare state.

This is the choice in front of us: a future of permanent war and permanent hunger, or a fight for a society where budgets are written to meet human needs, not to guarantee profits for war corporations and the rich.

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster for Italy’s OttolinaTV. Watch the first part here.

What the planet’s mega-rich capture of our media system shows is that billionaires are not only a serious drain on resources, but an existential threat to an open society and the free flow of information.

Bubbles are not accidents, but recurring mechanisms for absorbing surplus capital.

According to a report in the Times of India (November 23), the United States has asked European countries to restrict immigration in order to preserve “Western Civilization.” Many in the Third World would find the term “Western Civilization” laughable, especially if it is used in the sense of denoting something precious and worth preserving. The atrocities […]

COP 30 failed, even as the urgency of the climate emergency becomes terrifyingly clear, because fossil fuels are more profitable than renewables, explains Michael Roberts.

It’s perfectly normal for people to have 80 hour work weeks while billionaires transform into trillionaires and tech plutocrats feed all our drinking water to AI servers as the planet dies. This is the only system that could possibly work.

Modern imperialism is intimately connected to the globalization of capitalism, the quest for enhanced military capabilities, geopolitical thinking, and ideologies of national and racial superiority.

Political theorist Borón provides a comprehensive analysis of Washington’s new military activity in the Caribbean and how to resist it.

It may be thought that just as any tendency towards a financial outflow causes a squeeze on the living conditions of the working people via an exchange rate depreciation, any opposite tendency, towards an inflow of finance (in excess of the autonomously determined current account deficit in any period) should have the opposite effect of appreciating the exchange rate and hence lowering the cost of living, to the benefit of the working masses.

Major tech companies–OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok)–are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial intelligence models. The companies claim that this spending will transform them into systems that businesses will happily pay to use and, in the near future, lead to artificial general […]

Trump tried to walk back the importance of the 50-year mortgage plan he’d already promoted online, and that Pulte called a “complete game changer”—telling Fox he just thought it might “help a little bit.”

As a forum for economic cooperation between countries, the G20 lacks a legal basis.

U.S. President Trump’s economic strategy for his second term aims to get the rest of the world, especially its wealthy allies with greater means, to pay more to strengthen the world’s richest economy.

Ahead of the CP’s Congress later this month, RICHARD HEBBERT looks at the pressing climate issues humanity faces and their interdependence with capitalism.