Marxist economics
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole
- Karl Marx
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The new British disorder
Brexit has brought all the contradictions in the UK economy to the surface. British capitalism is facing a special crisis of stagnant productivity and terminal decline. This is taking its toll on the working class.
Dark clouds ahead for Flybe
Cut-throat competition in the airline industry is about to claim another victim. As ever, it is the workers who will bear the brunt of this race to the bottom.
Capitalism’s wealth gap grows
Inequality continues to rise, as the mega-rich get richer and the working class is forced to pay for capitalism’s never-ending crisis.