China's "Capitalist-Socialism" is Beginning to Tremble
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 6 2021 16:00
Evergrande's $300 billion debt turns the spotlight on to the increase in unproductive and speculative investment that has given a fictitious boost to Chinese national capitalism.
Only the World's Workers Can Save Us from a Capitalist Cataclysm
Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 10 2021 11:10
Editorial for Revolutionary Perspectives 18 (Series 4).
Did Communism Make Us Human? On the anthropology of David Graeber – by Chris Knight
Submitted by hedgehog on Jul 14 2021 14:47
A critique of David Graeber’s understanding of communism.
Forever in Debt
Article on the stranglehold that debt has on working class communities, with some suggestions on resistance.
From Black Flag #220 (2001).
Paltry Returns on Capital and an Enormous Debt Pile Are Bringing the World Economy to its Knees
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 29 2021 19:23
The following piece is a slightly condensed translation of the Italian original, published in the January edition of Battaglia Comunista, journal of the ICT’s founding section in Italy.
MMT: A Bankrupt Theory for a Bankrupt Capitalism
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 13 2020 01:42
Review: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy by Stephanie Kelton (published by John Murray, 2020).
To Pay is to Die: The Threat of Student Debt and Homelessness
Submitted by Bandilang Itim on Apr 22 2020 03:25
A statement from the Bandilang Itim Collective on the continuation of school semesters and rent and debt obligations under the current state of pandemic.
Today is Grey but the Future Looks Black
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 19 2020 15:56
New year, old music, from a well-known score sheet played out by... the Left. A "Left" that’s not ashamed to dress itself up in populist clothes, worn in the service of state capital on the understanding that this is the way to open up markets as a "progressive realisation of the patriotic ideal and the concept of nationhood". In the name, of course, of the people and the "concept of community" as understood by those who are ready to recite the hidden virtues of a renewed "capital-socialism".
The Shadow of September 2008 Continues to Lengthen
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 13 2019 12:55
It is now 11 years since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. The crisis in the real economy, instead of fading from memory, has become a fixture.
The Commoner #7: The "governance" of Imposed Scarcity
Issue 7 of The Commoner magazine
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