Neo-liberal "solutions" worsen Greek plight
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The latest austerity measures by the Pasok government were fully expected.
Crisis opening in 2007
Will Greece default?
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At the start of May, Portugal followed Greece and Ireland into a European Union/ IMF financial “bailout”. At about the same time, the clamour of economists predicting that Greece’s bailout cannot possibly work became deafening.
Socialism must mean more democracy
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The AWL is right to demand “democracy at every level” of society
"Moderation" is reckless
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The unspoken assumption by union and Labour Party leaders, that the Tory/ Lib-Dem cuts are inevitable and can only be alleviated by negotiating voluntary redundancies and used as grist for electoral agitation, is being proved reckless.
Double-dip doom looms
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The Tory/ Lib-Dem line that their cuts are only a fair and necessary price to pay for private-sector prosperity has been demolished by economic figures for October-December 2010.
A Workers' Plan to fight back
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The bosses' offensive against the working class is accelerating. Unemployment will be 2.7 million by the end of 2011, as 120,000 public and 80,000 private sector jobs are scrapped.
Will crisis break up the eurozone?
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Questions and answers on the eurozone crisis.
Will Irish crisis break up the eurozone?
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Questions and answers on the eurozone crisis.
Ireland: the bank that ate a country
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James Connolly, the Irish socialist and trade union leader shot by the British in May 1916 for his part in the Easter Rising, was convinced, early in the last century, that capitalism simply could not develop fully in Ireland.
Antecedents and sequels of the crisis
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This is a partial draft of an introduction to a collection of discussions with Marxist economists on the global capitalist crisis which opened i