Every Easter, millions of people tuck into inadvisable quantities of chocolate eggs. But crack the yummy surface and you’ll find a gooey core of brutality underlying the history of the sugar and cocoa trade. As Joe Attard of the KCL Marxists explains, those who desire guilt-free guilty pleasures need to support the revolutionary cause!

Buoyed by statistics showing growth in many key countries, capitalist commentators are once again optimistically predicting that “green shoots of recovery” are blossoming for the world economy. But with this empirical attitude comes an incredible hubris – for none of the fundamental contradictions have been resolved. The system remains riddled with crisis.

The board game Monopoly is a useful tool for understanding the transformation of ‘free market’ capitalism into monopoly capitalism. Under socialism, the monopolies can be nationalised and run for the benefit of the whole of society – not a tiny handful of capitalists.