The Guardian • capitalism
Issue #2007
Canada: 90th anniversary of the Colonial Building Riot provides a lesson on class conflict and organising
In the early 1930s, the Dominion of Newfoundland was in a deep economic crisis along with many other parts of the capitalist world in the...
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Issue #2018
Wages do not cause inflation
Inflation has now risen to 6.1 per cent nationally and workers are feeling the pinch. At the same time corporations and big capital are making...
Read moreWhy do we work?
Work, like inequality, appears to be a permanent feature of human existence into the foreseeable future.
Read moreDistractions
Under the cloak of the global pandemic, the US military-industrial complex is gleefully organising another war to rescue capitalism. The propaganda machine has certainly made...
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Issue #2046
Overproduction – Crazy capitalism
In 1867, Karl Marx wrote of capitalism’s inherent tendency towards overproduction and underconsumption (not enough goods reaching those that need them). No more vulgar example...
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Issue #2102
Socialism versus capitalism – connection versus alienation
What makes a ten-year old child commit suicide? What makes a 17-year-old girl stab her younger sister? What drives someone to become a mass killer?...
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Issue #2129
A tale of two disasters
1: China, the Xizang earthquake A catastrophic earthquake Magnitude 7.1 has hit Xizang. The scenes that have emerged from the earthquake are nothing short of...
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Issue #2112
Britain, fascism, and the collapse of capitalism
The riots in Britain have captured headlines around the world. News screens have shown the damage, the boarded-up mosques, the burned-out police cars. The rallies...
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Issue #2109
LETTERS
Cost of Living Crisis, Cooperative Supermarkets and capitalism Dear Editor, A recent report on cooperative supermarkets on the ABC found that people could reduce their...
Read moreAll the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask
In the 1990s and 2000s conventional Western wisdom was that China had long abandoned socialism.
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Issue #2132
HALF THE SKY
The struggle for women’s liberation has been long and hard. Over more than a century gains have gradually been made. The gender pay gap has...
Read moreCommunist Party of Greece, Joint Statement
A year has passed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which also acted as a catalyst for the deepening of the capitalist crisis ...
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Issue #2133
German election and the march of fascism
The German elections have caught the attention of the world. The far right of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) seem to be about to consolidate...
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Issue #2099
LETTTERS
Domestic violence – addressing causes as well as symptoms As the government pauses to consider shelling up over $1 billion to address domestic violence, Australians...
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Issue #2134
Aluminium, and beyond
When Trump launched his trade war, some nations responded with threats of retaliation. Others sought to find ways to ‘deal ‘with the most powerful economy...
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Issue #2084
HALF THE SKY
As our society moves further into late-stage capitalism, we continue to see liberal ideologies adapt to serve the capitalist mode of production. This trend has...
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Issue #2130
Capitalism, AI, and class
The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the face of the world. Like all transformations and ‘revolutions’ in society that capitalism has wrought, AI...
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Issue #2091
LETTERS
Barbarism and Capitalism While proofreading a page for our comrades who produce the Guardian, I noted something that I feel should be clarified for all...
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Issue #2121
University rankings plummet: capitalist destruction
It’s nothing short of a catastrophe. Australian university rankings have plummeted to their lowest ever records in the latest world rankings. While rankings aren’t completely...
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Issue #2132
Trump, Davos, and global capitalism
The earliest days of the Trump presidency have brought images of threat, bullying and all that is worst about autocracy in action. Some commentators claim...
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Issue #2203
HALF THE SKY
No matter who you are in Australia, you’ve felt the effects of the patriarchy. The system of gender-based inequity runs so deep in our society...
Read moreIdeology before health
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the failures of capitalism and its neoliberal policies.
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Issue #2023
Class collaboration won’t deliver for workers
Practice, time and time again, has shown class collaboration doesn’t deliver for workers. Efforts by social democracy to water down class struggle through the introduction...
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Issue #2113
Global saline-drip shortage shows a diseased capitalism
There is something terribly wrong when something as basic as IV saline-drip fluid is running short in all capitalist countries. There is probably no greater...
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Issue #2148
VULTURE CAPITALISM: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
A common misconception is that we live in a free-market capitalist economy that protects our individual freedoms, that competition thrives and we all share in...
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Issue #2145
The End of Capitalism
This review is a public service. If you’re at all left-wing, it’s likely someone will see this book in a bookshop, note the cute cover...
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Issue #2199
Video games and capitalism
Recently, Sony announced that starting from January 2028, PlayStation games will no longer be available in physical form. Instead, games will be only purchasable through...
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Issue #2180
Living Democracy
The clear message from this book is that our system of government is failing us. The crises we’re currently facing are being caused by our...
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Issue #2044
We must win the battle of ideas
Working people around the capitalist world have been hit hard from the employer class. Capitalists will always look at how to improve profit margins from...
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Issue #2173
Hasan Piker: Socialist, Revolutionary, and Democrat?
Hasan Piker is one of the most successful leftist media personalities of the past decade. He commands a vast online audience with his unapologetic socialist...
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Issue #2167
Slavery, feudalism, and the crisis of capitalism
The prime characteristic of any social system is the way it produces and exchanges goods and services. In primitive communal systems with no class divisions,...
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Issue #2142
Socialism: the only alternative
The question is; what is the alternative to capitalism? Humanity is facing two existential threats as workers celebrate May Day: climate change and nuclear war....
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Issue #2158
Class and freedom
One time someone sent me – as a correspondent for the Guardian – a series of questions to do with Communist attitudes to individual freedom....
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Issue #2143
PEACE NOTES
Capitalist governments around the world say they want peace, but do they really? The British used to have a War Office, but for some time...
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Issue #2040
Chalmers’ oxymoron
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says it is time to “rethink capitalism,” time for a “values-based capitalism” with “efficient markets.” He is critical of the neoliberal responses...
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Issue #2132
Finance capital and casino capitalism
Finance capitalism is characterised by a predominance of the pursuit of profit from the purchase and sale of, or investment in, currencies and financial products...
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Issue #2107
DINGO
In 1950 when the US war in Korea was only one month old, US News & World Report happily told its business readers “It’s really...
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Issue #2093
DINGO
In the 18th century, there was joy among civilised people because thought had finally broken free of the cant of religion. It was hailed as...
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Issue #2125
DINGO
ExxonMobil is using Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in an Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) to sue the Netherlands over the early shutdown of gas production in...
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Issue #2090
DINGO
In the 18th century, there was joy among civilised people because thought had finally broken free of the cant of religion. It was hailed as...
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Issue #2079
Cost of living crisis
One of the biggest issues facing households is the cost of living crisis and the failure of governments to take action to ease the situation....
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Issue #2099
A global community of shared future
Humanity refuses to die at the hands of war-mongers and profiteers. The planet and its people are at a cross roads. Capitalism and its blindness...
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Issue #2174
2025: From ban to blockade
The year 2025 will be remembered not as the year global capitalism stabilised, but as the year its grand, democratic facades crumbled revealing a desperate,...
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Issue #2107
The last stage of capitalism
In defining imperialism, Lenin pointed to qualitative changes within capitalism. First and foremost of these is the development of monopoly capitalism. “… the rise of...
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Issue #2132
Lessons from 2008
The 2008 crisis that came out of the corrupt practices of banks and financial institutions exposed the chaotic and dangerous nature of the whole greed-driven...
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Issue #2091
CAPITALISM
Living standards for the majority of Australians continue to fall while the gap between the wealthy and middle to low-income workers widens. The Reserve Bank...
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Issue #2126
Pratt goes out of his way to prove Marx correct
Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt has announced that he now has his Green Card and will be a permanent resident of the United States. His packaging...
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Issue #2135
EDITORIAL
The so-called “Western countries” are not, and never have been, the advanced guard of progressive society. There are certainly hard won gains, small advances made...
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Issue #2116
DINGO
“Free trade” is pushed by the big corporations because it permits them to undercut domestic manufacturers or growers, to drive them out of business or...
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Issue #2159
The meaning of ‘productivity’
“Each commodity represents a single unit of capitalist production; each is embedded with the congealed labour power, from the hands and the muscles and the...
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Issue #2130
EDITORIAL
The inferno that has ravaged large spans of urban areas in Los Angeles, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, and taking with it more than...
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Issue #2100
EDITORIAL
Most people ‘do a 360’ – look around – on the neighbourhood before they move in, and keep their eye on it thereafter. At first...
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Issue #2123
EDITORIAL
The Russian Revolution in 1917 changed forever our understanding of what ordinary men and women can – and did – achieve in building a nationalised,...
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Issue #2150
EDITORIAL
US President Donald Trump is always in the news. There are a lot of reasons to think he’s an especially horrible person. He’s very corrupt...
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Issue #2136
EDITORIAL
What do real action on Climate Change and the acronym Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) have in common? The answer is not ‘Donald Trump,’ although...
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Issue #2131
DESCENT TOWARD FASCISM
“One of the most ‘democratic’ republics in the world is the United States of America, yet nowhere is the power of capital, the power of...
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Issue #2122
PROFITS MATTER MOST
As more and more people are struggling with the cost of living crisis, the number of people turning to ‘risky’ gambling – at risk of...
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