‘A Nation of Shopkeepers’, by academic Dan Evans, argues that the working class has shrunk, giving way to a ‘new petty bourgeoisie’. He does this by changing the definition of class to a set of cultural values, abandoning the Marxist standpoint altogether.

With the recent rise of artificial intelligence, the capitalist press has gone into overdrive, peddling wild fantasies about the future of work. But are the bots coming for white-collar jobs? And what does this all mean for the class struggle?

With his sledgehammer approach to the political and economic status quo, President Trump is unleashing chaos upon the world order. In this article, Adam Booth analyses the decline of the dollar as the world’s currency, and its implications for capitalism as a whole.