The victories that followed the American civil war and the 1960s civil rights era are once again under attack, echoing earlier efforts to roll back equality and redefine democracy, says JOE SIMS
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What should we do about money?
One of the biggest challenges in post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain will be to confront the domination of Britain’s economy by the City of London and by international finance capital, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
In 2010, faced with the closure of their local library, a Buckinghamshire town’s locals turned to an unconventional tactic – borrowing every single book – to defend a cherished community space. MAT COWARD tells the story
The indictment of Nicolas Maduro after a deadly US assault is just the latest phase in a long campaign against the Bolivarian government, warns FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
Journalist STEVE SWEENEY talks to Roger McKenzie about narrowly surviving an Israeli air strike last week while documenting the mass displacement of civilians – and explains why the real story goes far beyond the attack on him
After 27 years in Holyrood, the former first minister urged unity and respect — but, says NEIL FINDLAY, her time in power told a very different story
The Employment Rights Act 2025’s focus on individual rights forces workers into slow and costly litigation to assert rights, rather than empowering unions. A Campaign for Trade Union Freedom-Strike Map rally at the weekend called for a more radical sequel, reports BEN CHACKO
“My friends, I am not a communist” (Boris Johnson, 30 June 2020).
OUR last two answers argued that within capitalism money is much more than merely a facilitator of exchange.
Today, most money exists in digital form as credit and debt, created by central and private banks, disembodied from any physical manifestation, protected by the state and central to financialised capitalism where profits are increasingly disconnected from production of goods and services.
An understanding of the nature and function of money is a challenge to the government’s “good housekeeping” rhetoric and to Tina (“there is no alternative”) austerity.
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