Public ownership is popular, was a key feature of the last two manifestos and is necessary to address the ecological and regional crises. Only Rebecca Long-Bailey takes it seriously.

by Terry Cox
Feb. 22, 2020

A reflection on the need to make visible both those who are hidden, and the hidden bodies of law, in the reproduction of wealth and power.

by Clair Quentin
Dec. 7, 2019

The IFS opposes Labour's Financial Transactions Tax, what is its ideological role in trying to discredit new economic thinking about the problems of British capitalism?

by Keval Bharadia
Dec. 3, 2019

In the past year Grace Blakeley and Frances Coppola's books have confronted the problems of rentier capitalism. However, in idealizing "productive capital" of the past, they miss its own flaws and power.

by Sahil Dutta
Nov. 19, 2019

Labour's new global tax policy rightly draws on radical new ways to ensure wealth is shared even when produced across borders. But limits remain and need addressing if this will challenge uneven development.

by Clair Quentin
Nov. 2, 2019

Capitalism's leading lights are worried about the viability of the current model of capitalism – the Left must use the next crisis to offer real change to the structure of ownership that underpins it.

by Adam Blanden
Oct. 29, 2019

The rise of the Liberal Democrats has been a thorn in Labour's side. However, without an economic vision replacing Labour seems like a distant prospect and misses a fundamental difference between the two parties.

by Iwan Doherty
Oct. 18, 2019

The economy is already planned, the task is for that planning to be based on democratic & ecosocialist values not profit.

by Michael Malloy
Oct. 6, 2019

The use of Marx to justify nationalist leftism is a well worn genre. This explores the falsehoods this always rests on, including both empirical data on migration and their misreadings of Marx.

by Angela Mitropoulos
Oct. 6, 2019

If Labour is to really overturn the prevailing orthodoxy of the Bank of England, it may have to take bolder action to end the Bank’s independence.

by Adam Blanden
Sept. 14, 2019

The challenges of the consumer banking sector is under discussed on the left. This is a problem and the continued presence of cooperatives banks today offer potential solutions we should not ignore.

by Iwan Doherty
Sept. 10, 2019

Workers suffering is the early warning sign that video game firms, key to the products-as-services, platform capitalism, boom within the emergence of tech and culture consumerism is entering a crisis.

by Leo Cookman
July 15, 2019

To solve the disastrous impact of capitalism on the climate, we need to understand that the economy, the energy system, and the environment are all inextricably linked.

by Simon Mair
July 7, 2019

Appeals to a fantasy past won't save us. We need to imagine—and plan for—a better, greener future.

by Gareth Fearn
June 14, 2019

The statistical model is undervalued as a machine with features which can subdued, like any other machine, to intentions. This piece explores capitals focus on predictive modelling as a disciplinary tool.

by Joel Hellewell
June 12, 2019

While Labour's new UBI report is focused on one policy, it is also informed by long-simmering debates over the meaning, definitions and implications of ‘the commons which limit its universality.

by Angela Mitropoulos
May 19, 2019

This March the Labour Party officially came out against freedom of movement. Though often empathetic, its cause is worrying deep. Reflecting its the definition of neoliberalism it critiques.

by Nolan MacGregor
May 18, 2019

Resilience suggests being strong in the face of crisis. On the surface, it could be seen as a state of mind. Incorporated into the political economy of the everyday, however, it takes on an ideological form.

by Matthew Donoghue
May 6, 2019

In 2018, under the guise of social purpose, corporations invested a quarter of a trillion dollars to save the world.

by Navid Somani
March 4, 2019

Today, the Labour Party launches an official National Policy Forum consultation on the subject of democratic public ownership.

by Thomas M. Hanna
Feb. 25, 2019

The problems of our modern public sphere are not the inevitable results of progress - addressing the “post-truth” crisis requires reckoning with the politics of technology.

by Erik Martin
Feb. 21, 2019

Can the left reclaim a financial vehicle long associated with capitalist exploitation?

by People's Private Equity
Feb. 13, 2019

The contradiction between us working harder every day and the apparent productivity crisis is obvious to every worker. Here we look at the root cause: management.

by Paddy Bettington
Dec. 14, 2018

To truly challenge the power of the tech giants, we need more than better regulation. We need class struggle.

by Wendy Liu
Dec. 1, 2018

Britain's dramatic and unique spatial challenges demand radical answers. The Preston model offers one potential solution for matching both democratic and economic challenges.

by Joe Bilsborough
Nov. 13, 2018

Labour's promise of free parking at hospitals has been criticised as a waste of resources—resources that should be going to care. But we don't have to choose between the two.

by Dan Howdon
Nov. 9, 2018

Organising the tech industry may be difficult, but it’s crucial for challenging capitalism. A transcript of the Tech Workers Coalition session at TWT 2018.

by Wendy Liu
Oct. 30, 2018

Technology is not merely bundles of wires, silicon, and touchscreens; it is a way of systematised thinking that emulates capitalism.

by RJ Quinn
Oct. 26, 2018

Defending Labours ambitious and potentially transformative agenda for reforming the economy—one with new, cutting edge forms of public ownership and economic democracy.

by Thomas M. Hanna
Sept. 24, 2018

The internet has become highly centralised due to its role as a site of capital accumulation. Challenging capital requires revisiting the internet’s architecture.

by Jason Prado
Sept. 23, 2018

The fiscal credibility rule appears to make a concession to 'sound finance', but has been defended as anything but. Can this position reflect wider understandings of progressive macroeconomics?

by John Marlow
Sept. 19, 2018

Top-down regulation, bottom-up resistance, or some combination of the two? A response to IPPR's new report on technology platforms

by Wendy Liu
Sept. 14, 2018

It’s time to take the internet back from the American megacorps. But how should a nationalised version of the international internet look?

by Jimi Cullen
Sept. 8, 2018

Trade union strategy in Germany in the age of platform capitalism

by Luke Beesley
Aug. 24, 2018

When Jeremy Corbyn bemoaned Britain’s decades of industrial struggle and the narrow interests of the City of London, he revived one of the most enduring tropes in British politics: decline.

by Sahil Dutta
Aug. 19, 2018

Transcript of a panel co-hosted by Tech Workers Coalition and Tech Action at Left Forum 2018, on what a socialist vision for the tech industry should look like.

by Wendy Liu
July 29, 2018

An extract from "Class Matters" analysing how "class" has been deployed and manipulated and the struggles behind these uses.

by Charles Umney
July 22, 2018

Class Matters: Inequality and Exploitation in 21st Century is an excellent introduction to Marxist debates on class, but its understanding of class variety and how it changes is limited.

by Kyle
July 21, 2018

A collective reduction in working hours could benefit all, including those in insecure jobs.

by Paddy Bettington
July 20, 2018

Spain is putting alternative models of ownership into practice. What can the left learn?

by Hettie O'Brien
July 10, 2018

We have the potential to rewrite history if we understand the magnitude of the situation we find ourselves in.

by John McDonnell MP
June 23, 2018

A little over a century ago, there was an expectation that the future was ours to map and manage.

by Justin Reynolds
May 26, 2018

A worker reads "Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain" by Liam Byrne MP, emblem of the New Labour tradition

by Steffan Blayney
May 20, 2018

A transcript of a talk delivered at the technology breakout session of John McDonnell's State of the Economy conference at Imperial College

by Wendy Liu
May 19, 2018

Why anxiety over technology is simply misplaced anxiety over capitalism

by Felix Holtwell
May 18, 2018

Debates on UBI as a practical policy are well-rehearsed, but this article seeks to answer these questions through a critical review of the Marxist perspectives on the concept.

by John Marlow
May 13, 2018

The theory of social exclusion became a central component of New Labour’s social policies and their drive for what they viewed as a programme of modernisation.

by Jack Yates
May 12, 2018

The plans for partial re-nationalisation of energy in Labour's manifesto are too locally-oriented. Instead, we should embrace national planning of electricity through centralised ownership.

by Chris MacMackin
April 12, 2018

On February 15th the Sun ran a front page story, ‘Corbyn and the Commie Spy’.

by Tom Mills, Dan Hind
March 4, 2018

This is the seventh (and final) part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Tom Gann
March 4, 2018

This is the sixth part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Tom Gann
March 2, 2018

The fifth part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Tom Gann
Feb. 28, 2018

The fourth part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Tom Gann
Feb. 26, 2018

The third part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Wendy Liu
Feb. 24, 2018

The first part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Tom Gann
Feb. 21, 2018

The second part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Wendy Liu
Feb. 21, 2018

The Meidner funds, proposed in Sweden in the seventies, offer a potential complement to Labour's Alternative Models of Ownership report.

by Mio Tastas Viktorsson
Feb. 20, 2018

Calls to break up tech giants miss the problem: monopolies are inevitable to competitive capitalism.

by Hettie O'Brien
Feb. 19, 2018

Universal basic services will not address all the flaws of universal basic income. It's the bare minimum, and we should aim higher.

by Grace Blakeley
Feb. 8, 2018

How the imposition of market forces has forced the NHS into critical condition.

by Pete Kennedy
Jan. 28, 2018

In 2017 the value of the world’s most used cryptocurrency doubled 4 times.

by Jack Chadwick
Jan. 7, 2018

The story told by the "Paradise Papers" is ultimately about the core structural fault-line in capitalism between capital and labour.

by Clair Quentin
Jan. 6, 2018

The pace of technological advancement is double-edged.

by Wendy Liu
Dec. 17, 2017

Wednesday’s budget was more striking for the economic indicators and forecasts produced by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility than for any of its specific policies.

by Tom Gann, Wendy Liu, Kyle
Nov. 25, 2017

The gig economy may finally be souring in the eyes of the public.

by Wendy Liu
Nov. 19, 2017

The Conservative government has made much fanfare recently of the fact that, alongside record employment levels, they have brought unemployment levels down to their lowest point since 1975.

by Connor Devine
Nov. 12, 2017

Out of all his works, the reputation of Karl Marx as theorist of the socialist tradition is undoubtedly based primarily on his magnum opus, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy.

by Matthijs Krul
Oct. 11, 2017

The future of work has moved to the centre of mainstream political debate.

by Justin Reynolds
Aug. 16, 2017

The Labour Manifesto proposes to establish a National Investment Bank and a network of regional development banks.

by John Marlow
Aug. 11, 2017

There’s a difference between policies and power. If a left-wing party wants to turn its manifesto promises into political practice it needs to construct the capacity to do so.

by Sahil Dutta, Paul Gilbert
Aug. 7, 2017

Labour is now on a permanent war footing and is a realistic contender for office. As a result, the left must now get much more serious about policy and strategy.

by Joe Guinan, Thomas M. Hanna
June 19, 2017

Our economy is clearly not working, and this report provides an indispensable analysis of why, situating present outcomes in fundamental structural flaws.

by The Editors
June 11, 2017