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Capitalist crisis highlights

  • Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

    Our role is not to take over the bureaucracies but to bring a class-conscious understanding and programme to rank-and-file militants.

    5 May 2025 ,
  • Disputes / Birmingham’s gone bust! But why are workers told to pay?

    No one has explained why some of the most hardworking and essential employees should bear the brunt of a crisis they had no hand in making.

    10 Apr 2025 ,
  • Ukraine / America’s proxy war against Russia has failed

    The European ruling class is in disarray over how best to handle this unwelcome reality – or even whether to admit to it at all.

    15 Mar 2025 , Lalkar
  • Industry / Starmer government pushing fresh sell-off to hedge fund vultures

    The Labour party grovels to Wall Street and the City of London.

    15 Nov 2024 , Class Consciousness Project
  • World / The promise of Brics and the end of the ‘new world order’

    The multipolar world is a reality, and it has been brought into being as a direct consequence of imperialist actions.

    1 Nov 2024 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Why aren’t they taxing the rich?

    While ‘patriotic millionaires’ consider a wealth tax a no-brainer, Labour party ‘socialists’ are horrified at the very thought.

    1 Nov 2024 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Labour means austerity, racism, repression and war

    So where are the trade unions?

    1 Oct 2024 ,
  • USA / Is its national debt of 35 trillion dollars the USA’s greatest weakness?

    With debt rising exponentially year on year, and interest payments of $1tn this year alone, the US economy is poised ever closer to open bankruptcy.

    13 Sep 2024 , Proletarian
  • Kenya / Kenyan youth rebellion against imperialist superexploitation

    The youth of all tribes were at one in standing up against IMF-imposed austerity, all of them ready to lay down their lives in the struggle for justice.

    1 Sep 2024 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Media blames workers for the corruption and fraud endemic to capitalist society

    It is not ‘benefit cheats’ who are emptying Britain’s treasury but the unending subsidies to monopoly capital.

    25 Jul 2024 , Proletarian
  • British politics / One communist’s perspective of a general election in Britain

    A journey through the Corbyn project to the ranks of the revolutionary working class.

    5 Jul 2024 ,
  • British politics / No votes for genocide-enablers or Nato warmongers!

    We are calling on workers to help the campaigns of, and give their votes to, all candidates standing on an anti-genocide, anti-Nato and anti-Labour platform.

    11 Jun 2024 , Proletarian
  • China / Yellen’s visit to Beijing: penny lectures from economic ignoramuses

    The USA is outraged to find it no longer calls all the shots on its much-promoted world market.

    20 May 2024 ,
  • Divide and rule / Immigrants make vital contributions to British pensions and welfare benefits

    Population study shows that without the essential part played by immigrant workers, our pensions and social service provisions would collapse.

    18 May 2024 , Lalkar
  • Trade unions / Gaza, inflation, Assange … Where are the trade unions?

    While crime after crime is committed against the people, those who should be organising the resistance are doing nothing.

    30 Apr 2024 ,
  • Social wage / Why is Manchester in poverty? Workers need socialism!

    What is at the root of the spiral of poverty and decay we are experiencing in towns and cities across Britain?

    27 Feb 2024 ,
  • France / Europe: the peasants’ revolt

    What is at the root of the crisis in European farming?

    9 Feb 2024 , Proletarian
  • Argentina / Victory of Javier Milei reveals the failure of Argentina’s popular forces

    How could a candidate with such an overtly anti-worker programme be elected by workers in dire economic straits?

    10 Dec 2023 ,
  • Ireland / The Dublin riots

    Why are so many on the left so quick to dismiss every outpouring of working-class rage as ‘mindless’ and ‘lumpen’?

    4 Dec 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • British politics / Starmer’s bad 90s remix – the Labour party ‘conference’

    Sign of the times? Bourgeois politicians are no longer required to inspire the masses – only to prove their utter servility to the interests of British monopoly capital.

    8 Nov 2023 , Marx Engels Institute
  • Capitalist crisis / Ofgem serves corporate energy profiteers

    The energy regulators work, just not for workers.

    11 Sep 2023 , Proletarian
  • Britain / The collapse of Wilko

    Wilko stores across the country are expected to close over the next few weeks with the chain struggling to find a buyer.

    1 Sep 2023 , Class Consciousness Project
  • Capitalist crisis / Is life under capitalism getting you down? Luckily, there’s a cure!

    Are you sad and depressed? Lonely? Anxious? Isolated? Worried about the future? You may be suffering from capitalism.

    30 Aug 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Oxfam identifies inequalities in shocking detail, but provides no solution

    Price-gouging is a real monopoly practice. But is it really at the root of the global economic crisis?

    25 Aug 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Which way forward for the trade unions now?

    It is time to break out of suffocating ‘unity’ with those who serve our class enemies.

    24 Aug 2023 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / France in flames after yet another racist police murder

    The divide between French ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’ is constantly exacerbated in order to keep workers from making common cause against their rulers.

    2 Aug 2023 , Lalkar
  • Health / Capitalist contradictions abound: Victorian illnesses on the rise

    How can we explain the seemingly absurd combination of British workers’ failing health from malnutrition alongside rising obesity?

    22 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / EVENT: Trade unionism and working-class leadership

    Don’t sit on your hands; don’t fiddle while Rome burns! Your class needs you; the future of humanity needs you! Step forward and help make history!

    17 Jul 2023 ,
  • Economy / Thames Water scandal – is the party drawing to a close?

    Having paid a fortune to private investors for years, the British public must now pay again to bail out indebted utilities and clean up the horrific mess they have made.

    12 Jul 2023 , Lalkar
  • Education / Burden on students becoming unbearable as fresh rent hikes planned

    Students are being milked like cash cows, while the vice-chancellors who facilitate this profiteering enjoy huge salaries and perks.

    5 Jul 2023 , Proletarian
  • France / Joti Brar: We are heartened and inspired by French workers’ fighting spirit

    Unfortunately, even the most militant of Britain’s trade union leaders seem keen to end the strikes here as quickly as possible.

    8 Jun 2023 , Communist Initiative
  • Trade unions / Model motion: No cooperation with the imperialist drive to war

    Only the collective action of workers has the power to stop the war drive in its tracks. This demand must be taken up in every trade union at every level.

    7 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Model motion: Urgent measures needed to address the cost of living crisis

    Why are workers being asked to pay the cost of a crisis that was not of their making? If capitalism cannot provide for its workforce, then capitalism must go.

    6 Jun 2023 ,
  • Trade unions / Defy the anti-trade union laws!

    It is time we turned the struggle for decent wages into a struggle for socialism.

    22 May 2023 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Long live May Day!

    Workers have made immense sacrifices in the great struggle of labour against capital; have shed rivers of blood in their quest for a better life and real freedom.

    1 May 2023 , Lalkar
  • Pollution / ULEZ: a green greed initiative

    Not so much an environmental measure as a tax on driving and an effort to keep the car monopolies in profit.

    18 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Anti-immigration propaganda stirs up anger and rioting in Knowsley

    As the cost of living crisis brings suffering to workers, our rulers are once again using immigration to distract from their failures.

    17 Apr 2023 , Proletarian
  • Belarus / Rise of the new world order: Belarusian president honoured in Beijing, Tehran

    A growing network of economic and military cooperation outside its control is enraging US imperialism.

    14 Apr 2023 ,
  • USA / Message to US workers: Britain sending depleted uranium to Ukraine

    The imperialists can seem incredibly powerful, but in fact their dominance is declining and their rule is showing signs of senility and decay.

    10 Apr 2023 ,
  • Media / Look, balloons! The Hollywoodisation of imperialist ‘news’ media

    Hyperbolic reportage of the ‘spy balloons’ story was a perfect example of how the ‘infotainment’ industry works to distract and confuse.

    25 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / After the strikes, what then?

    As union leaders look for the exit, their members’ anger is being directed towards yet another diversionary ‘vote Labour’ campaign.

    21 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • France / French workers fight for their pension and retirement rights

    Militant fighting spirit is on display in abundance in France. What is now needed is class-conscious leadership and vision.

    18 Mar 2023 , Lalkar
  • Education / Why I left my first teaching job: ‘No support, no training, no care for the kids’

    This view from a school gives an insight into why so many of our teachers are feeling so demoralised.

    17 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Education / Support our teachers; save our schools!

    It is not only their present ability to exist that Britain’s teachers are fighting for, but our children’s future.

    14 Mar 2023 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Many councils have crippling gambling debts. Workers will be paying the bill

    Local councils across Britain are going bankrupt, leading to ever deeper cuts in services that have already been stripped to the bone.

    13 Mar 2023 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Sound and fury: the hollowness of the woke v anti-woke debate

    Workers have no interest in perpetuating bourgeois-incited culture wars. What we need is a clear understanding of how these harmful ideas destroy our ability to unify.

    8 Mar 2023 ,
  • USA / Anticommunism in the USA: the spectre remains

    The spectre of communism haunts the US Congress 175 years later.

    13 Feb 2023 , Marx Engels Institute
  • Housing / Poor housing kills

    The death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak has shone new light on a growing problem: the slum conditions being endured by too many in Britain today.

    9 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
  • Greece / Athens conference: anti-imperialist unity in the Balkans is pivotal for all of Europe

    Only by standing together can workers and oppressed peoples find the strength to defeat Nato’s bestial neo-nazi war machine.

    2 Feb 2023 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / TUC directs its members’ anger into more meaningless busywork

    An email campaign to reverse anti-union laws? Really?

    30 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers!

    It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.

    29 Jan 2023 ,
  • Civil liberties / Minimum Service Bill is the latest salvo in the class war against workers

    No cooperation with union-busting anti-strike laws! 

    27 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • USA / The US ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ – blatant protectionism

    US monopolies are hoping to survive the present crisis at the expense of their rivals, but alienating all their allies will ultimately only hasten their demise.

    24 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Europe / Food bank crisis in Europe

    As our rulers double down on their war against Russia, workers across the EU are suffering rising hunger and fuel poverty.

    22 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Prepay meter scandal reveals workers being slowly crushed by energy debt

    Workers who can’t afford crippling energy prices are being forced to pay even higher rates by the vulture providers.

    18 Jan 2023 , Proletarian
  • Civil liberties / Joti Brar on RT: New laws on strikes and protests aim to contain workers’ anger

    Instead of helping workers weather the inflation crisis, our rulers are preparing to suppress any future rebellion.

    16 Jan 2023 , Proletarian TV
  • Science and technology / Microchips and monopoly: a new front in the global struggle

    What is the significance of the USA's quest to repatriate the complex chain of semiconductor production?

    10 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Russia / Price cap stunt will not stop Russian oil trade

    But it will deepen and expand the fissures within the imperialist camp itself, as the demise of the west accelerates.

    6 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Communist replies to BBC budget tips: ‘Get out and see the real world.’

    What kind of ‘journalist’ could seriously investigate whether ‘showering at the gym’ could be a money-saving tip for impoverished workers?

    5 Jan 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

    There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.

    3 Jan 2023 ,
  • Health / The ruin of the NHS for the benefit of private interests

    In their desperation for sources of profit, our exploiters as individuals even end up damaging their own collective interests.

    29 Dec 2022 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Communist responds to patronising BBC advice for a ‘budget’ Christmas

    Naughty? Nice? It’s time workers stopped believing the fairy tale that we get what we ‘deserve’ and organised to fight for what we need!

    24 Dec 2022 , Proletarian
  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘New globalisation?’

    Are we witnessing the end of ‘globalisation’ as we have known it for about the last 40 years?

    22 Dec 2022 , Proletarian TV
  • Capitalist crisis / Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness

    This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth.

    7 Dec 2022 , Lalkar
  • Disputes / Support our nurses’ struggle for decent pay!

    It is not our hard-pressed medical staff who are greedy, but the privateers who are pushing down their wages in the interests of profit.

    18 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Are Britain’s union bosses interested in helping their members fight back?

    As the crisis deepens, the ruling class is looking far more determined than the unions, where lions continue to be led by loyal Labour donkeys.

    16 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s third prime minister in seven weeks

    No changing of the guard can address the fundamental problem the British ruling class faces – a deepening crisis of overproduction that it is powerless to overcome.

    9 Nov 2022 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

    The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

    4 Nov 2022 ,
  • Germany / Germany is under pressure. Something’s got to give

    As the economic crisis deepens and political panic spreads, the future of a unified European imperialist block is looking ever more shaky.

    19 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: fracking is back on the agenda

    Whichever way they turn, Truss and co are tying themselves in knots trying to escape the Gordian knot of the energy and inflation crises.

    10 Oct 2022 , Proletarian
  • Czech Republic / Czech people take to the streets in record numbers against Nato’s war in Ukraine

    Is this huge demonstration in Prague a sign of things to come across the European Union?

    22 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Selling Ukraine to the highest bidder

    Alongside the wanton sacrifice of its military-aged men, the total immiseration of Ukraine’s entire population by western imperialism continues apace.

    20 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / Shameful capitulation of workers’ leadership in face of ‘mourning’ demands

    With hunger, blackouts and war knocking urgently at workers’ doors, our demand should be: ‘Don’t mourn, organise.’

    12 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / EU quietly rowing back on self-defeating sanctions against Russia

    In the face of the abject failure of their economic war, EU leaders are trying to salvage what they can without admitting to a U-turn.

    7 Sep 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way

    Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.

    6 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Families face energy bills topping £5,000 this autumn

    Privatisation of the energy industry has put Britons at the mercy of world market prices – and no bourgeois party has a clue what to do about it.

    30 Aug 2022 , Proletarian
  • Disputes / Support the postal workers!

    Workers at Royal Mail are joining those on the railways and the docks in standing up for pay and conditions.

    24 Aug 2022 , Proletarian
  • Support the Felixstowe dockers!

    Workers at the country’s busiest port are using their collective power to demand a pay rise in line with rampant inflation.

    23 Aug 2022 ,
  • Disputes / Victory to the striking railworkers; defend the right to strike!

    In fighting to save jobs and defend pay, railworkers are in the front line of a desperately-needed push-back against the onslaught of capital.

    22 Jun 2022 ,
  • Social wage / Food bank Britain

    British families are relying on charity to eat as the market and the government both fail to provide even such a basic necessity as food.

    20 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Pay and conditions / Sainsbury’s CEO in the money as workers feel the pinch

    As conditions for the mass of workers get rapidly worse, the obscene inequalities of the system come into ever-sharper relief.

    15 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Boris in trouble: It’s the economy stupid … and that bloody stupid war

    The commentariat might not be admitting it, but it is the Ukraine war that looks like finally finishing off Boris Johnson’s premiership.

    11 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis worsens as inflation and energy prices soar

    Our rulers are keen to blame ‘the Russians’ for the intrinsic failings of the capitalist system itself.

    29 May 2022 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / The day that P&O sacked all its staff: view from a worker in Dover

    When capital makes decisions about its profit margins, it is real people whose lives are destroyed.

    23 Apr 2022 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / P&O sackings: Don’t make workers pay for the capitalist crisis

    The ferry company’s callous treatment of its employees reminds us yet again that the logic of the capitalist system is impervious to the needs of human beings.

    30 Mar 2022 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Why should the working class pay the cost of the capitalist crisis?

    Profiteering, taxation, money printing, social provision cuts, interest rate hikes ... are all combining to transfer the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the poor.

    16 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Poverty stalks the land as ultrarich count the spoils

    Inequality is rising in Britain and in the world, the inevitable outcome of the workings of our much-praised market economy.

    3 Mar 2022 , Proletarian
  • USA / Insider dealing is just one of the ways US politicians get paid

    Only revolution can end the corruption of public life.

    28 Jan 2022 , Proletarian
  • Economy / BP’s ‘cash machine’ goes into overdrive as workers’ energy bills soar

    Britain’s energy monopolies are enjoying a profit bonanza as their rivals disappear and Ofgem fixes prices on their behalf.

    11 Jan 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Crisis is inescapable while capitalism remains

    The working class’s historic role is to put an end to profit-driven capitalism and to build a new, socialist society in its place.

    4 Jan 2022 ,
  • Economy / Energy crisis: more millions to prop up the privateers

    Taxpayer cash will shore up monopoly profits while workers shiver this winter.

    14 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Health / Derisory pay offer covers further cuts as NHS privatisation reaches new heights

    National clapping and a George Cross have left nurses empty handed as the new health chief helps US profiteers move in.

    2 Dec 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / ‘Just in time’ reveals the fatal inadequacy of market mechanisms

    Global supply lines have been designed with profit maximisation, not the needs of the people, in mind.

    16 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • China / What do Evergrande’s troubles mean for the Chinese and world economies?

    No amount of state intervention can break the connection between overproduction crisis and the market.

    9 Nov 2021 , Lalkar
  • Pay and conditions / Keep on trucking: supply lines chaos as Covid and Brexit effects combine

    The obvious answer to the present shortage of skilled labour is to invest in training and to improve pay and conditions in the areas concerned.

    3 Sep 2021 , Proletarian
  • Working-class history / Remembering the 2011 youth uprising

    Ten years on, the poverty, inequality and injustice that led to an outpouring of rage on England’s streets have only worsened.

    6 Aug 2021 , Proletarian
  • World / Five Eyes become four as New Zealand distances itself from anti-China action

    Workers have no interest in going along with the wave of anti-China propaganda that is preparing the ground for a devastating war.

    20 May 2021 , Proletarian
  • Industry / FlyBe is dead, long live FlyBe

    Turns out all it takes to avoid the creditors is a slightly tweaked name and a fresh coat of paint.

    26 Apr 2021 ,
  • Industry / Cameron’s hand caught trapped in the till as Greensill collapses

    The collapse of yet another debt-laden house of cards has shone a light on the revolving door between career politicians and the corporations they serve.

    27 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Industry / With ‘saviours’ like Gupta, who needs enemies?

    If you are rich enough, you can get richer still without spending a penny; it is the workers who pay when the vultures’ schemes collapse.

    9 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Economy / GameStop stops Wall Street

    Activist amateur traders ‘driven by righteous anger’ very nearly broke at least one hedge vulture’s bank, causing panic on the stock exchange.

    2 Feb 2021 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless figures mount as Paperchase is latest retail chain to fail

    As the economic crisis is exacerbated by repeated lockdowns, company after company is going to the wall.

    7 Jan 2021 ,
  • British politics / Crisis of legitimacy: trust in politicians and journalists keeps going down

    What does it say about our ‘democracy’ when those who are supposed to uphold it are some of the least trusted people in the country?

    7 Dec 2020 , Proletarian
  • Economy / Edinburgh Woollen Mill: the vultures circle

    Thousands of workers look set to lose their jobs, but the man whose fortune they made will have no trouble hanging onto his millions.

    19 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Book: Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State

    A meticulously researched exposure of outsourcing and corruption that falls short of finding either the true culprit or the way out for impoverished workers.

    3 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Insult to injury: government plans to cut Universal Credit boost

    Covid has exposed the injustice of below-poverty-line benefits. How will our rulers balance their need for cheap and desperate workers with maintaining social peace?

    29 Oct 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / FT spills the beans on private equity scam

    The super-rich are indulging in an orgy of speculation using the ‘free money’ of low-interest debt. Who pays?

    23 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Society / Thinktank warns of massive rise in destitution in the wake of Covid-19

    The wonders of capitalism: five million Britons predicted to become destitute this year.

    10 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Rising inequality following the 2020 crisis of overproduction

    Mushrooming inequality has the capitalist class spooked, for they fear the consequences.

    29 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Dilemma of the covid crash vultures

    Having maximised indebtedness in order to avoid paying taxes, vulture capitalists now find they are missing out on state aid during the crisis.

    29 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless total rockets

    As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.

    24 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / British Airways takes the money and runs

    The Covid-19 crisis is highlighting the necessity for public ownership of all our vital services.

    13 May 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / The corona pandemic and the capitalist world economic crash of 2020

    Our rulers are keen to convince us that the deepest depression in the history of capitalism is a random and unpredictable ‘black swan’ event.

    2 May 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism

    Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.

    1 May 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Burying bad news: crash caused by overproduction not coronavirus

    The present economic crisis has been long in the making, but is being passed off as the result of the covid lockdown.

    29 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Hunger rising sharply as covid-19 lockdown combines with economic crash

    Why are we witnessing the obscene sight of workers going hungry in the midst of plenty?

    17 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / RIP FlyBe

    The only rational way to ensure that vital infrastructure exists and is run for the benefit of all is public ownership.

    9 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / FlyBe farce exposes lunacy of privately owned transport

    A hefty subsidy to the airline’s private owners may not be enough to save a vital service and thousands of jobs.

    22 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger

    Workers rightly fear for their jobs as another round of ‘cost-cutting’ looms.

    15 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Society / Debt survey shows inequality widening as rich get richer and poor get poorer

    As the gap between the super-rich and everyone else gets ever wider, it is clear that this system is overdue for a foreclosure of its own.

    5 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • Economy / QuickQuid – cut and run

    Having extorted millions from struggling austerity-hit families, the US-backed payday lender is pocketing its loot and getting out.

    30 Oct 2019 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / New recession will hit workers still paying the price of the last one

    The capitalist system is unable to find a way out of the downward spiral of overproduction, crisis, austerity and war.

    10 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Industry / British Steel sold for ‘blood money’? A reply to the Morning Star

    Where should workers look for their salvation from the crises that destroy industry and jobs?

    26 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Nissan to cull 12,500 jobs globally as Chinese car market stalls

    The crisis of overproduction continues to wreak havoc with workers’ lives.

    12 Aug 2019 ,
  • World history / The origins of World War Two

    How did WW2 come about? And when were the opening salvos really fired?

    11 Aug 2019 , Lalkar
  • British politics / Galloway, Farage and the Brexit party

    British workers are set to keep demanding Brexit at the upcoming EU elections.

    7 May 2019 ,
  • Divide and rule / Asda continues to flout equal pay rulings

    Automation and unequal pay are just two of the tools being used by retail giants to divide workers, reduce costs and win the cut-throat war of competition.

    14 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobs massacre at Jaguar Land Rover confirmed

    Overproduction not Brexit is to blame. But if there really are too many cars in the world, what are workers to do?

    16 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Carillion: lawyers make hay whilst workers wait for pay

    As workers try to get recompense for lost jobs and wages, the whole crooked business of outsourcing is being exposed to view.

    14 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Defend Brexit and manufacturing jobs

    Overproduction in the car industry is being blamed on ‘Brexit uncertainty’ in an effort to justify reversing the EU referendum result.

    9 Jan 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Industry / Interserve: dead men walking?

    How can the outsourcing racket, which sucks the public purse dry while failing to deliver decent services, finally be put an end to?

    4 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • Economy / Trade tariffs and trade wars

    Hostility to China unites the imperialist powers despite the conflicting interests between them.

    5 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Capita poised to follow Carillion down the tubes

    Yet more proof of Marx’s observation that under capitalism profit is privatised and debt is nationalised.

    1 Mar 2018 , Lalkar
  • Leaflets / Housing: a crisis of capitalism

    What must be done in order to provide decent homes to all workers?

    1 Mar 2018 ,
  • British politics / Theresa May’s election U-turn

    Proposed new laws to curb strike action by key public-sector workers were hastily ditched as Corbyn's popularity rose during the election campaign.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • France / French elections produce … more of the same!

    An opportunity further to upset the applecart in Europe has been lost, but the imperialists’ glee is likely to be short-lived.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • Trade unions / The fight-back of the low-paid

    ‘Precarious’ workers are doing it for themselves.

    1 Jun 2017 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Birmingham council in financial crisis

    A strike by binmen and other workers is inevitable.

    1 Apr 2017 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Tata: the vultures circle

    While the capitalist crisis continues to destroy workers' lives, our union leaders are still trying to push us down the blind alley of support for British imperialism.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / BHS workers facing loss of jobs and pensions

    This is not the ‘unacceptable face’ of capitalism; capitalism itself is unacceptable.

    1 Jun 2016 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Budget 2016: attacking the poor will not fix the economy

    Chancellor Osborne is finding that there is no escape from the world capitalist economic crisis.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • USA / The rise of Donald Trump: a revolt against the establishment

    The anger of poor white workers in the US may be misdirected for now, but it is real and it is growing.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / The rich are getting richer but fewer

    As the gap between the rich and poor widens, some of the rich find themselves being kicked downstairs.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Health warning: capitalism kills

    Latest assaults on society’s most helpless.

    1 Feb 2016 , Proletarian
  • Greece / Greece: Syriza caves in

    Grexit is inevitable, despite the capitulation of Greece’s government to the austerity demands of the European bankers.

    1 Aug 2015 , Proletarian
  • Greece / Crunch time for Syriza?

    The bloodsuckers are running out of ways to keep Greece paying out. The imminent explosion will rock the world’s financial systems.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Energy / Imperialism’s oil game

    What will be the outcome of the law of unforeseen consequences?

    1 Dec 2014 , Proletarian
  • Divide and rule / Rage against capitalism: working-class youth fight back

    The working class needs a general staff that can enable it to direct its anger in a constructive way.

    9 Aug 2011 ,
  • Theatre / Play: The Power of Yes by David Hare

    Explaining nothing, this play is aimed merely at letting off some steam without getting any nearer to a solution to society’s systemic problems.

    1 Oct 2009 , Proletarian

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Capitalist crisis video

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon episode 11: Bourgeois ‘stability’ or socialism?

    In an era of rising social discontent, more and more people are questioning what they used to believe was the ‘natural’ state of affairs.

    23 Apr 2025, Proletarian TV
  • Capitalism or communism TV / Joti Brar: Whose side are the British communists on?

    Introducing the CPGB-ML to a global audience: a genuinely anti-imperialist outlook is the key to success for the movement in every country.

    14 Oct 2024, Proletarian TV
  • British politics / Starmer promises to ‘fix’ Britain – with racism, repression, austerity and war

    What really lies behind Sir Keir’s stirring rhetoric about ‘saving the NHS’ and ‘rebuilding the country’ while ‘restoring law and order’?

    9 Sep 2024,
  • World / Joti Brar: The growth of world war and the tasks of anti-imperialists

    There is the real possibility of a wave of critical defeats for the imperialists that could shift the balance of forces decisively in favour of the working masses.

    29 Jul 2024,
  • British politics / The Communists’ message for May Day 2024: Where are the unions

  • World TV / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon episode 6: Julian Assange and ‘rules-based order’

  • Europe / Joti Brar and Garland Nixon ep5: EU farmers, the state and revolution

  • World / Athens declaration: World is entering a new era of anti-imperialist struggle

  • Capitalist crisis / Red Youth: Marxism can channel the anger of our youth into revolution

  • World history / British delegate in Athens: We must learn the lessons of our history

  • Greece / Athens Polytechnic commemoration: ‘Our lessons have been learned in blood’

  • Capitalist crisis / Garland Nixon and Joti Brar: The decay of western imperialism

  • Trade unions / Alex Mckay: Trade unions can do more than fight for narrow wage increases

  • Theory TV / Garland Nixon and Joti Brar: capitalism, imperialism, the ‘left’ and the Platform

  • Korea / British delegate in Seoul: Global capitalist system teetering over the abyss

  • Korea / To south Korean workers: We share the same struggle against poverty and war

  • Korea / Platform rally in Gwangju: Nato war drive threatens Korea, Taiwan, east Asia

  • USA / Report from the anti-imperialist Summit Against Hypocrisy in Washington DC

  • Venezuela / Caracas anti-imperialist rally declares: One enemy, one fight!

  • Theory TV / The global drive to war and the launch of the World Anti-imperialist Platform

  • Yugoslavia / British delegates in Belgrade: Nato is trying to expand the war in Europe

  • Theory / Comrade Joti: Why our rulers hide the truth about socialist science

  • Theory TV / Ella Rule: Lenin on revolutionary theory (What Is To Be Done?)

  • World TV / Harpal Brar to Anti-imperialist Platform: ‘Imperialism is going to crash’

  • World / Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and our tasks

  • Capitalist crisis / Kwarteng’s budget: less red tape – fewer workers rights

  • World TV / Ranjeet Brar: The relationship between the Ukraine conflict and oil

  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Ranjeet: ‘Cost of living crisis is inseparably bound up with capitalism’

  • World TV / Comrade Joti on CrossTalk: ‘Russia and the Global South’

  • Ukraine / Nato’s actions in Ukraine pushing Europe to economic collapse

  • USA / To US workers: ‘Only class politics can save us from the rampaging monopolists’

  • Ukraine / Comrade Ella on Kalima Horra: How did the world react to the Ukraine conflict?

  • World TV / Imperialist war threatens Russia, China and the world

  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘Crystal Ball 2022’

  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘What reset?’

  • Capitalist crisis / Covid has laid bare the capitalist dystopia in which we are already living

  • Capitalist crisis / The unenviable plight of the self-employed

  • Health / Comrade Ranjeet on MoATS: ‘The government has failed the people’

  • Health / Coronavirus: Cuts to health and social care crippled covid response

  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘No Trust’

  • Health / Coronavirus: NHS privatisation and the US second wave

  • Health / Coronavirus: NHS is 72 but drugs companies are still rinsing the system

  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘Rethinking globalism’

  • Health / Coronavirus: The truth about ‘overpopulation’ and ‘herd immunity’

  • Health / Coronavirus: What do the experts say?

  • Theory TV / Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?

  • Economy / Can the food crisis be solved?

  • Capitalism or communism TV / Capitalism can’t save the planet

  • Theory TV / Harpal Brar on the state and revolution

  • Capitalist crisis / Economics 101: Capitalism

Capitalist crisis theory

  • Trade unions / Communist work in the trade unions

    How should Marxists approach union work? Which demands are most useful in developing workers’ class-consciousness?

    19 Jul 2024, Proletarian
  • Ukraine / On the essence of the Ukraine war and the lessons of Russia’s SMO

    What is the war in Ukraine really about, and what have we learned during the last two years of fighting?

    17 Jun 2024,
  • Argentina / Role of the IMF in impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina

    How the imperialists use the debt trap to loot the wealth of and enforce their hegemony over oppressed nations.

    28 May 2024, Lalkar
  • Theory / Lenin’s work remains a guide for our time: an introduction

    What is it about VI Lenin and his work that remains so essential to the working class a century after his death?

    4 Feb 2024,
  • World history / On the current state and problems of the communist movement

    What are the lessons communists need to learn in order to fulfil their historic role in the coming period of increased class struggle and deepening imperialist crisis?

  • British politics / Book: Britain’s Perfidious Labour party by Harpal Brar

    An essential history for every sincere worker who wishes to make sense of the political landscape in Britain and find an effective way forward.

  • Russia / What is happening in the Russian economy?

    Enforced separation from the world market has reinforced moves back towards nationalisation and planning.

  • Capitalist crisis / Book: Manifesto for the crisis

    What do workers need to understand if they are to solve their problems for good?

  • Divide and rule / Book: Capitalism and Immigration

    Our strength is in our unity, and our rulers know it well.

  • Capitalist crisis / It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation

    It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.

  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis

    Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.

  • Theory / Is inflation good for you?

    What is really at the root of the inexorable rise in prices?

  • Theory / Yanis Varoufakis and Diem25: erratic Marxism and consistent anticommunism

    It is scientific socialism that workers need, not plausible lies about how to ‘fix’ social democracy, the EU, and capitalist imperialism itself.

  • Theory / Modern monetary theory: is there a magic money tree?

    Those who would change the world must first understand it: Marxist economics is the antidote to bourgeois voodoo.

  • Capitalist crisis / The oil slump and its ramifications

    In attempting to retain domination over the oil market, Saudi Arabia has alienated its most important ally, supporter and protector.

  • Capitalist crisis / The economic crisis and coronavirus

    In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution.

  • Lay-offs and closures / Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

    As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem?

  • Science and technology / Right to repair: a threat to monopoly superprofits

    Apple are using their monopoly to rob workers by designing their phones and laptops to break. It’s wasteful, anti-environment and anti-worker; it’s capitalism!

  • Capitalist crisis / Trump’s trade wars

    US tariffs have increased the uncertainty in an already volatile system, and represent a new milestone in its aggressive policy towards China.

  • Capitalist crisis / Trump and US capitalism in perspective – interest rates and the Federal Reserve

    The US government is rolling big in the capitalist casino.

  • Theory / Time to face it: capitalism must go!

    Only a planned economy designed to meet people’s needs can solve the problems of disease, poverty, inequality, war and environmental degradation.

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