The global economy is now in its fifth year of crisis. Living standards for the vast majority have been steadily getting worse, with falling real wages and a complete dearth of jobs. Despite this, profits for the biggest companies continue to rise. Adam Booth examines the gaping and growing inequality in the society.

In this video Alan Woods explains the roots of the crisis from a Marxist perspective and the revolutionary way out of the impasse.

The cat-and-mouse game between piracy supporters on the one hand and state authorities and major multinational companies on the other is heating up. The recent spate of persecution of websites and individuals involved in piracy opens up a new phase. In the second part of his article on online piracy, Niklas Albin Svensson asks: what’s the alternative to copyright and patents? And how should we fund culture and the arts?