Michael McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools opens with an evocative description of life under a new social order. “It’s a sunny Friday morning in 2045,…

When I was first invited to Manifesta, the annual conference of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB), I had no idea what…

Despite the many horrors of today’s world, there are still people telling us that capitalism means the “freedom” of the market. In…

Despite what new Labour prime minister Keir Starmer says, there’s nothing inevitable about another round of austerity — it is a deliberate…

Britain is broke. This is the message that Rachel Reeves has just delivered to the nation as she announced forthcoming cuts to…

Common sense tells us that free-market economies maximise freedom and that planned economies, typically found under socialist governments, curtail it. But what…

When Sir Keir Starmer began ditching the pledges he’d made during his leadership campaign one by one, he made another pledge to…

(Image: Mark Ramsay) In the UK today, it’s hard to avoid the sense that everything is falling apart. Rents and bills are…

It’s increasingly hard to ignore the fact that democracy around the world is in retreat. On the one hand, many of the…

Policymakers in the Global North have mostly responded to rising inflation by raising interest rates. That’s bad for their own workers —…