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Raw Originals: Marxist Analysis

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341 articles

• "The return of depression economics" (book review)
• 1929 again? – Socialist Appeal Editorial Statement
• 1929: Can it happen again?
• 1999: the Start of the Long Economic Winter
• 2.3 billion going hungry despite global overproduction of food
• 2001 AD: From Boom, to Gloom, to Doom
• 2008-2018: capitalism''s lost decade
• 2015 - The storm clouds are gathering
• 2019: new year, new crisis
• 2020: bumper year for the ‘millionaire club’
• 2023: another global recession is coming
• [Video] The 2008 crash to now: a decade of crisis
• [Video] The coronavirus crisis is a capitalist crisis
• A Global Steel War?
• A New Stage in the Capitalist Crisis
• After 2021''s speculative orgy: here comes the hangover
• After the lockdown: what will capitalism look like?
• Ageing population or senile system?
• Agitación en las Bolsas – Preparémonos para un arduo camino
• Alan Woods on world perspectives 2008
• American century... for the rich
• An economic calamity facing Britain
• Another day, another crisis
• Argentina, Turkey and the debt bomb under the world economy
• Argentina: peso collapse – ominous sign of the state of world economy
• Argentina’s wealth tax: a way forward?
• Arms manufacturers make a killing on imperialist rearmament
• Bail-out blackmail
• Bank bailout: throwing good money after bad
• Banking system on the brink
• Beware, the Ides of March cometh…for capitalism!
• Big Freeze Coming for the World Economy
• Billionaires made $2 trillion last year while it’s austerity for the rest of
• Bitcoin is back: capitalism’s crypto chaos returns
• Bitcoin: utopian reflection of a capitalist nightmare
• Blockage in the Suez Canal: the week world trade stopped
• Boom to Slump
• Bourgeois strategists continue to be haunted by Marx
• Britain's House of Cards Wobbles
• Britain: back to ‘business as usual’ – is austerity over?
• Britain: Bradford & Bingley nationalised – let''s take the rest
• Britain: Corbynomics – the many vs the few
• Britain: don''t be fooled by budget headlines – austerity isn''t over
• Britain: Glaxo "shareholders'' rebellion" highlights nature of the system
• Britain: The rocky road to ruin
• Britain: Tory crisis budget – desperate measures for desperate times
• Bubble.com - 'new economic paradigm' exposed
• Bulls, bears and bust
• Busted! The 'New Economic Paradigm' Goes South
• Bye, Bye, Dubai?
• Canada: the Great Depression 1929-39 – a Marxist analysis
• Canadian capitalism is mortally wounded
• Canadian economy: when will the hit the fan?
• Cancun fiasco reveals real nature of WTO
• Capitalism beared
• Capitalism has failed utterly
• Capitalism has failed. Period
• Capitalism in crisis: a sinking ship without any lifeboats
• Capitalism not so popular... especially in the United States
• Capitalism prepares misery for billions of workers
• Capitalism threatens to throw us back to the Dark Ages
• Capitalism's wealth gap grows
• Capitalism’s $1.3 Trillion Unicorn Problem
• Capitalism’s debt crisis: Expropriate the billionaires!
• Capitalism’s economic singularities
• Capitalism’s insoluble crisis
• Capitalism’s prospects: “Default, bank runs and catastrophe”
• Capitalist crisis deepens – no recovery in sight as economy heads for depression
• Capitalist Economy: Staggering from One Impasse to the Next
• Capitalist recession and Iraq
• Capitalist system in meltdown
• Capitalists alarmed about capitalism
• Capitalists turn to tricks and illusions as inflation starts to rise
• Car industry closures reveal depth of European crisis
• China: a trade war the bourgeois can get behind
• China: contradictions of development
• Coronavirus outbreak threatens world economy
• Credit crunch!
• Credit Suisse collapse: the whole system is broken – expropriate the banks!
• Crisis and Class Struggle: World Perspectives 2016
• Crisis of the euro – shades of the Titanic
• Crisis, protectionism and inflation: war prepares the way for revolution
• Currency wars: what''s next?
• Dark Clouds Ahead for World Economy – but Happy Christmas Everyone!
• Davos 2023: capitalism’s polycrisis strikes fear into the ruling class’ hearts
• Davos’ false promise of a “Great Reset” reveals fear of revolution
• Debt crisis: predatory powers fight over scraps in pillage of poor nations
• Deep economic crisis being prepared in China
• Deflation and Depression
• Doctor Doom predicts “dark days” for capitalism
• Dr Pangloss Rules?
• Draghi: Europe in an ‘existential’ crisis
• Economic Repercussions of September 11 Continue to Spread
• Economic slowdown: the ruling class fears revolution
• Enron - Imperialism in Action
• Enrongate
• Euphoria and the bursting bubble
• Eurozone braced for Quantitative Easing as crisis intensifies
• Explaining the coming crisis of capitalism
• Eye-watering inequality: a symptom of a sick system
• False Dawn: the Delusions of Global Capitalism
• False Optimism
• Fannie and Freddie nationalised – let’s take over the rest
• Fashion Victims: textile and clothing workers worldwide
• Financial meltdown deepens
• Financial meltdown: another day, another finance house bites the dust
• First Tremors of the Coming Slump
• Flood-Tide: The Economic Conjuncture and the World Labour Movement
• For want of a microchip, the empire is lost
• From Adam Smith to Karl Marx: The Wealth of Nations and Das Kapital
• From bulls to bears
• FTX and the crypto collapse: the bubble bursts, but the gambling goes on
• Fukuyama’s second thoughts: ''socialism ought to come back
• Furious, disillusioned investors march on the Cyprus Stock Exchange
• G20 Summit: Trying to square the circle
• GameStop, casino capitalism and chaos on Wall Street
• Global debt: a ticking time bomb
• GM’s axe comes down on the workers of Antwerp - Workers in other GM plants
• Goldman Sachs: business as usual
• Gordon's Dream
• Gordon's gamble
• Governments, monopolies and COVID-19 crisis: the pandemic that threatens the
• Green shoots of economic recovery?
• Has the working class disappeared? Fact and fiction
• Haunting inequality worldwide
• Hawks, hikes, and hard-landings: new chapter in the crisis of capitalism
• Healthcare crisis causes global spike in excess mortality: the system is sick!
• Hedge funds, speculation and capitalism
• Housing crisis intensifies internationally: expropriate the speculators!
• How Fords Made Their Millions
• How healthy is the British economy?
• How the Workers are Robbed
• How to fight unemployment? Put 1.82 million US citizens in prison!
• How to really take on Wall Street
• IMF predicts a recovery... for the rich nations only
• IMF warns of global debt catastrophe
• Imperialism and the Highest Stage of Capitalism
• Inflammable material is amassing everywhere
• Inflation and instability: contradictions mount for capitalism
• Inflation and interest rates: ruling class prepares to impose pain
• International banking – a system ruled by stupidity and fraud
• Internet revolution: a new paradigm or another bubble?
• Is the world recession over?
• Is this the end of globalisation?
• It's a World Con
• It's still getting worse
• Italy: the Recovery Plan will solve nothing
• Japan's Economic Crisis
• Jobless recovery for the U.S. economy
• Keynes: capitalism''s utopian and impotent oracle of doom
• Labour shortage lunacy: another symptom of capitalism’s chaos
• Letter and reply on Michael Roberts’ review of Glyn's Capitalism unleashed
• Liberal democracy: fighting back or fracturing?
• Like all bubbles, this will burst
• Markets routed in global sell-off – “It’s every man for himself!”
• Marx was right!
• Marx was right: it''s official!
• Marx'' Economics and Lord Desai''s "revenge": A response to the book "Marx''s
• Marx''s Economics and Lord Desai''s "revenge": A response to the book "Marx''s
• Marxism vs libertarianism
• Milton Friedman – economic witch doctor of capitalism
• Monopoly capitalism, imperialism, and the world economy
• More nerves on the stock exchange
• National Contradictions in the EU Intensify
• New figures reveal growing concentration of wealth in the hands of the few
• New Year, same old crisis
• NFTs and SPACs: the insanity of casino capitalism
• Nightmare on Wall Street
• Notes on the global economy: drowning in oil and credit
• Oil price shock
• On a Knife''s Edge: Perspectives for the world economy
• Optimism in world economy hides deeper malaise
• Oxfam reveals how bloodsucking billionaires have profited from the pandemic
• Oxfam: “we’re 10 years from Earth’s first trillionaire… and 230 years from
• Pandora Papers: dirty financial dealings of ruling class exposed – again!
• Panic in world markets
• Panic!
• Parasitical landlordism and the Marxist theory of rent
• Paulson plan - a kick in the face for capital
• Perspectives for the German economy in 2004
• Perspectives for the World Economy: Crisis is looming
• Piketty’s Capital and the spectre of inequality
• Poverty amidst plenty: inequality, imbalances, and the worldwide crisis of
• Private Finance Initiative: Britain leads the way - to disaster!
• Productive and unproductive labour
• QE2 – another leap into the dark
• Quality, inequality and opportunity
• Raising interest rates: a recipe for world recession
• Refining industry in agony – time to think of an alternative!
• Reinflating the bubble: a balance sheet of 10 years of crisis
• Ruling class flounders faced with the worst crisis in the history of capitalism
• Russian oil and the currency crisis: the capitalists must pay!
• Shadow banking: a ticking time bomb under the US economy
• Shortages and bottlenecks expose the anarchy of the capitalist system
• Should we pay for the crisis?
• Six years after Lehman Brothers’ collapse – another stage in the capitalist
• Sixty-two billionaires own half the world
• Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor
• Something wicked this way comes
• South Africa: Turmoil in Steinhof and Naspers exposes crisis of the big capitalists
• Stagflation and struggle: capitalism’s new era
• Steel: Recession to Slump?
• Steel: Strike action required
• Stiglitz blows the gaff - Mick Brooks reviews Joseph Stiglitz's book "Globalization
• Stock market booms and the insanity of capitalism
• Stock market latest: more panic
• Stock market meltdown: Harbinger of new world slump
• Stock market panic reveals underlying crisis
• Strait of Hormuz closure: world economy on a cliff’s edge
• Sunny summer optimism
• Surprise, surprise: “Governments don''t rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules
• SVB collapse shows the fragility of the capitalist economy
• Tax evasion by the rich more prevalent than ever study finds – The fight for
• The 1% and the 99%: tiny rich elite own half the world''s wealth
• The anarchic AI race: boom, bubble, and bust
• The Bad, the Bad and the Ugly: IMF Solutions to the Debt Crisis
• The beginning of the end of the US empire?
• The Bitcoin bubble and cryptocurrency craze
• The Cancun summit - The WTO on the edge of the abyss
• The Central Valley's Poor West Side
• The class struggle and the economic cycle (Once again on the World Economy)
• The credit crunch – one year on
• The crisis deepens in Europe, Japan and the United States
• The crisis of world capitalism is gathering speed
• The decade of deflation and depression
• The decline of the dollar: another pillar of the postwar order begins to crumble
• The dollar down the pan – monetary chaos to follow?
• The economic crisis and the crisis in economics
• The economic crisis and the poor countries
• The end of Boo at the Last Minute
• The Enforcers - What is the WTO, and why we must fight it!
• The Euro-Referendum in Denmark
• The Financial Crisis and the Auto Sector
• The FinCEN leaks and the corruption of capitalism
• The First Tremors - An analysis of the global economic situation
• The global crisis of 1973-75: a turning point for capitalism
• The Goldilocks World
• The Great Depression
• The great recession
• The Great Recession: is it over?
• The Greek crisis: Europe on the brink of a precipice
• The hopeless position of the world economy
• The immiseration of the working class – Marx was right!
• The International Situation and Perspectives 2007
• The Launch of the Euro - Towards European unity?
• The life blood of capitalism
• The meaning of the rise of China
• The mood in Davos: doom and gloom as crisis looms
• The myth of decoupling: emerging economies hit a wall
• The Organic Crisis of Capitalism
• The pain after the gain
• The paradox of prosperity
• The perfect circle of success
• The permanent slump – an organic crisis of capitalism
• The Property Time Bomb
• The real stakes in the Trump-China trade war
• The Sharing Economy, the Future of Jobs, and “PostCapitalism”
• The socialist case against euro entry
• The spectre of Marx is haunting capitalism
• The spectre of Marxism
• The state attempts to rescue collapsing capitalism
• The state of two nations
• The system is broken - for a revolutionary solution!
• The tipping point
• The trade war takes another turn
• The Turn of the Tide
• The Uber controversy reveals the rottenness of the taxi industry
• The Unfolding Capitalist Crisis – a nightmare for workers everywhere
• The Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression: Lessons for today
• The working class must not be left to pay for Wall Street mess
• The world economy after Iraq
• The world economy in 2002
• Them and us: abundance for the rich... and grinding misery for the rest
• Them and us: energy markets – a ''cash machine'' for the capitalists, while
• Them and us: housing crisis for the billions – luxury mansions for the billionaires
• Them and us: hunger, highflyers and HIMARS
• There is no reformist way out of the crisis of capitalism – Part One
• There is no reformist way out of the crisis of capitalism – Part Two
• They think it's all over - is it?
• Thoughts on the dawn of a New Year
• Tiger Economies in Crisis
• Time is running out
• Top Economic Strategist warns of ‘Catastrophe and Revolution’
• Trump blinks again as the world economy stutters
• Trump, China, and the coming crisis
• Trump’s tariff programme deepens protectionist tendencies in world economy
• Trump’s tariffs mark a new turbulent era
• Trump’s war on globalisation
• UK - emergency call
• UK economy: a perfect storm
• UK economy: running on empty
• UK interest rates: the chickens are coming home
• UK: Hammond''s Budget highlights crisis facing the ruling class
• UK: Never had it so good?
• Universal basic income: utopian dream or libertarian nightmare?
• Unpopular capitalism
• US capitalism: Digging a deeper hole
• US election: A tipping point
• US house price boom – a time-bomb ticking
• US slides into recession - who's next?
• US-China trade dispute: Trump''s recklessness deepens instability
• US-China trade war: who holds the cards?
• USA: the Statistics That Shock
• Wall Street: a total eclipse in sight
• Was our analysis of the world economy right?
• We are entering a New Age of World Austerity
• What GATS is and why we need to fight it - Public services under threat
• What has caused the unfolding chaos in the world economy?
• What the stock market bubble can tell us about the state of the US economy
• What's happening to the working class?
• Where will the next domino fall?
• Who Owns the Wealth and How they Spend It
• Why an Italian meltdown threatens the world economy
• Why does Capitalism go into crisis?
• Why has capitalism failed?
• Why you should worry about Fannie and Freddie
• Will there be a boom?
• WMGs (Weapons of Mass Growth) – will never be found
• World capitalism in crisis – Part One
• World capitalism in crisis – Part Two
• World deflation - led by Japan
• World economy in crisis - The financial panic: where are we now?
• World economy in turmoil as oil price plunges
• World Economy: Capitalism lurches from one crisis to another
• World of worry
• World poverty: capitalism''s crime against humanity
• World stock market turmoil – prepare for a rough ride
• World stock markets in turmoil
• World trade: Trump sets his eyes on China
• World’s biggest money-laundering scandal: the true face of Danish capitalism
• ‘Dot-Com Bubble 2.0’ could burst at any time
• ‘Greedflation’: as prices rise, bosses make a killing
• ‘Scams and garbage’: crypto crash is just the prelude
• ‘World on fire’: capitalism in meltdown
• “A financial September 11” - Lessons of the banking crisis – Part One
• “A financial September 11” - Lessons of the banking crisis – Part Two
• “Capitalism unleashed – finance, globalisation and welfare”
• “Largest increase in global poverty since WW2”: capitalists profit while the
• “Let them eat insects” – Food and the future of capitalism
• “Reclaiming Marx''s Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency”
• “Trade wars are good” – Trump threatens fragile world economy