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16 December 2009

Where is the world economy going?

Is the worst post-war economic downturn coming to an end? Are the green shoots of recovery really visible, as many politician would have us believe? Opinion is divided, with some commentators counting...

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13 August 2008

CWI Summer School 2008: Capitalism at a crucial turning point in its history

Tony Saunois, secretary of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), opened the CWI international summer school by firmly underlining the changes being brought in by the new economic crisis of capitalism and the importance of workers' struggles which will emerge, writes Alison Hill.

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11 June 2008

Oil price shock - the chaos of capitalism

Years of frenzied speculation on commodity markets: We have been hit by a tsunami of energy price rises. A flood of speculative activity in oil markets has produced a huge bubble that will inevitably collapse in coming months. Lynn Walsh investigates.

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19 March 2008

Global economic crisis

Dow Jones falls amid turbulence, 19 march 2008

Dow Jones falls amid turbulence

AMERICA IS in recession and news of deepening financial disaster comes thick and fast. Bear Stearns, America's fifth largest investment bank, suddenly collapsed, writes Judy Beishon

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12 March 2008

World's poor hit by rocketing food prices

ONE IN six of the world's population (854 million) do not have enough food to eat. Every year, despite the recent boom in the world economy, another four million are added to this total.

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1 March 2008

British Perspectives 2008

The 2008 National Congress is taking place against the background of a profound change in the world economy and, flowing from that, the political situation...

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30 January 2008

Debt and housing slowdown threaten Britain's time bomb economy

Debt and housing time bomb, photo The Socialist

Debt and housing time bomb, photo The Socialist

THE EXTREME volatility in the world's stock markets has not yet led to London city slickers jumping off skyscrapers. But growing fears about the underlying health of the economy prompted one commentator to scream about a global 'pandemic'...

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10 January 2008

Feature: Socialism and democracy needed to reshape the world

The present crisis in the world economy has underlined Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism as a system that works blindly, behind the backs of society and without conscious human control...

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14 November 2007

World economy: Bosses' crisis, workers pay

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Bubbles: Socialism Today, May 2007, anticiapted the c rash. Cartoon by Suz

The global economy is in deep trouble. When the subprime mortgage crisis hit financial markets in August, it was dismissed by city pundits as a mere hiccup... By Lynn Walsh

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14 November 2007

Editorial: Shattering confidence in world economy

Earlier this year, capitalist leaders were boasting of record growth in the world economy, around 5% a year for over five years...

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