By Michael Roberts It was the tercentenary of the birth of Adam Smith this month. Nobody is quite sure on what day Smith was born
Category: Theory
On the concept of “Time-poverty”
By Rugveda Sawant, India This article has been submitted to Left Horizons by Rugveda Sawant who is an architect and independent researcher, based out of
By John Pickard The election of Erdogan as president for another five years is a blow to the working-class movement in Turkey. He will continue
The end of the Communist (Third) International – 80 years ago today.
Ray Goodspeed introduces an article by Ted Grant, from 1943, on the shameful end of the Communist International (1919-1943). The full article, “The rise and
Do wage rises cause inflation?
Steve McKenzie (Unite Community member – Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley) answers this question using a Marxist classic – Wages Prices and Profit – that can be
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member. The TUC is organising the first coordinated action of all of those trade unions that have balloted
Where is Britain Going? By Leon Trotsky.
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) discusses a socialist classic from 1925 and looks at its lessons for the labour movement today. The full
By Michael Roberts Do ‘excessive’ wage rises lead to rising inflation and thus drive economies into a wage-price spiral? Back in 1865, at the International
Historical Materialism Conference – monopoly, imperialism, inflation and Ukraine
By Michael Roberts As usual it won’t be possible to report on all the many sessions at this year’s London Historical Materialism conference that took
By John Pickard Unfortunately, it is being suggested once again by some on the left that the Labour Party is ‘dead’. Some of those arguing