
Today, it was announced that unemployment has jumped to five percent, the highest level since the pandemic. This is the result of several converging factors, which the capitalists are powerless to fix. Meanwhile, workers and youth face increased exploitation and burnout.

This week marked 158 years since the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital – a monumental work uncovering the inner workings and contradictions of the capitalist system. Here, we republish Adam Booth’s preface to the newly-released third edition of Understanding Marx’s Capital.

In this episode of Marxist Voice, Nelson Wan explains Ted Grant’s article ‘Will there be a slump?’, and how the Marxist method allows us to understand capitalist crisis today.