By Michael Roberts In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism is an important new book
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Marx’s theory of value: collapse, AI and Petro
By Michael Roberts A site called Marxism and Collapse (M&C) has conducted a ‘dialogue’ with an AI model called Genesis Zero (GZ) that includes “an

What fascism meant then…and now
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour Member During the 1930s, Leon Trotsky wrote about the rise of fascism in Germany and other European countries.

AHE 2024: value, profit and output
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Saturday, 13 July 2024. The original article can be found here. ************** The

Fifty years ago today: The Portuguese Revolution begins
By Greg Oxley Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the revolution in Portugal, a process that unfolded over many months. Greg Oxley,

The Left and the Labour Party: Lessons from the 1920s – Part Two
Andy Ford (Warrington South Labour Member) completes his article on the relationship between the Communist Party and the Labour Party in the 1920s. Part two

Six crises of capitalism
By Michael Roberts José Tapia has a new book on the world economy. Tapia is a professor of politics at Drexel University, Philadelphia, where he

Lessons from the revolutionary history of the French working class: 1930s, part two
By Greg Oxley, La Riposte, France This is the second part of a two-part article by Greg Oxley, editor of the French marxist newspaper La

Lessons from the revolutionary history of the French working class: 1930s, part one
By Greg Oxley, La Riposte, France This is the first part of a two-part article by Greg Oxley, editor of the French marxist newspaper La

Socialist clarity or muddled compromise: CGT in France in 1935. The view of Trotsky – Part Two.
Part Two – Workers’ control, peasant farmers, the need for class struggle. This following text is the second part of a speech made to the