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Aug 18

Towards a Theory of Modern Disaster Capitalism: Part I

Phil Hearse gives a critical introduction to the work of William I Robinson. 18 August 2020 General Introduction Neil Faulkner and Phil H...

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Jul 22

A new kind of Tory regime?

Six months in, what sort of government do we face? Neil Faulkner and Phil Hearse explore the character of the Johnson-Cummings regime. 22...

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Jul 10

What is the Working Class and why it matters

Class is often poorly understood even by those who claim to make it central to their politics; Simon Hannah explores what class means fo...

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Jul 2

The stuff that dreams are made of

Davy Jones shares his initial thoughts on what the crisis of Covid-19 means for the crisis of the left

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Jun 30

Tower Hamlets Labour Council sacks its workers

Tower Hamlets Council is sacking its entire workforce to impose new contracts on them with worse terms and conditions.

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May 25

Global Capitalism and COVID-19

William I Robinson analyses the interaction between global capitalism, COVID-19, and neo-fascism. Mutiny Speaks, 22 May 2020. William I R...

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Apr 11

Is this the end of capitalism?

Neil Faulkner puts the current global crisis into historical context. 8 April 2020. There are three kinds of crisis under capitalism – cy...

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Apr 3

The Coming Social Collapse

Phil Hearse and Neil Faulkner argue that neoliberal capitalism is facing terminal crisis, and that what comes next will depend on what we...

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Mar 26

The Coronavirus and the Crisis of Global Capitalism

William I Robinson argues that overaccumulation has left the world exposed to greater crises after shocks such as the coronavirus.

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Mar 5

Creeping fascism: who’s in the driving seat?

Davy Jones doubts whether the global drive towards fascism is being driven by a coherent transnational capitalist class. It’s messier and...

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Feb 28

Global pandemic, financial firestorm, political chaos

Phil Hearse argues that the crash could be bigger than 2008 and make fascism a clear and present danger. 28 February 2020. Stock markets w...

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Feb 26

Can 21st century fascism resolve the capitalist crisis?

William Robinson argues that a global police state and 21st century fascism are the responses of an international ruling class to the cri...

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Feb 21

What 'American Factory' tells us about the world

Simon Hannah reviews the Oscar winning documentary American Factory

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Feb 20

HS2: a right-wing vanity project

Joel Benjamin makes a socialist case for scrapping HS2 and infrastructure mega-projects.

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Jan 31

UK plc goes it alone: so what now?

Davy Jones takes a critical look at the British economy in Johnson’s post-Brexit Britain. 31 January 2020. As somebody said, economics ex...

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Jan 19

What do we mean by neoliberalism?

Phil Hearse takes issue with Blairite commentators who claim that neoliberalism is nothing but an ‘unthinking leftist insult’. 18 January...

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May 4, 2019

World capitalism in the early 21st century - Neil Faulkner

Neil Faulkner speaking at the Malvern Festival of Ideas 4th May 2019

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Feb 24, 2016

Karl Marx and revolutionary exiles of 1848 - Neil Faulkner

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