- The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
What Working People Need to Know
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1913
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- After the Crash
The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
Resource Type: Book
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Banks got $114B from governments during recession
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Canada's biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
- A Biological Walk Down Wall Street
Economics, Symbiosis and Parasitoids
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Wall Street today, with the collapse of Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae, AIG, Lehmann Brothers, Washington Mutual and the rest as to come, is highly reminiscent of that scene in "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979) where the parasite begins to burst out. The host is the free market. Feeding the parasitoid more, in sense of allowing it to nourish on public funds as new host, will have the same denouement, only this time the host will not just be a particular market, but the whole market, and the society reliant upon it.
- Book Review: Marixism without Marx: Recent Interpretations of the Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Paul Mattick’s, Business As Usual, and David McNally’s, Global Slump, each focuses on a single, primary aspect of Marx’s theory as a means to explain the current crisis. For Mattick, the point of entry into the economy is money; for McNally, it is competition. This propels them in very different directions, largely a function of how close to Marx they remain. Mattick’s book takes the form of an extended essay that warrants close reading. McNally’s lengthier treatment is both breezier and polemical.
- Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an Economist
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Spouting ostensible free market ideology, the pro-creditor mainstream rejects what the classical economic reformers actually wrote. One is left to choose between central planning by a public bureaucracy, or even more centralized planning by Wall Street’s financial bureaucracy. The middle ground of a mixed public/private economy has been all but forgotten, denounced as "socialism." Yet every successful economy in history has been a mixed economy.
- Burdened with Debt Reloaded: The Politics ofr Devaluation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A series of defensive and sectional struggles at workplaces in the private sector reveal that the Greek industrial capital has already taken advantage of the new institutional framework of the “state of emergency” now ruling in Greece to prop up its profitability or just transfer its own debts and losses onto the workers.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- The Case for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
- Challenging Rural Poverty
Experiences in Institution-Building and Popular Participation for Rural Development in Eastern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Challenging Rural Poverty includes papers on a range of topics reflecting the alternative development experiences of Eastern African countries. It is an attempt to unveil the causes of the "development crisis" in Africa.
- Chicken Game: Eurocrisis, Again.
Washington vs. Berlin
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
How does one take an autonomous position against the European policies of social butchery without falling into nationalist, anti-German nostalgia or into rhetoric against “Anglo-Saxon speculation”? How do we put together struggles about rights, work and life with a constitutive struggle on the issue of debt, while avoiding any recourse to solutions “from above” to the risk of default?
- China's capitalism and the crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Coupled with spectacular growth rates since the late 1970s, China’s “soft landing” and apparent rapid recovery from the crisis appear to support claims made by some on the right and the left that the 2008 recession has been a catalyst for the core of capitalism shifting to the East and setting in motion a change in global geopolitics.
- Christians in the Crisis
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
Describes the urgent need for Christians to respond to the socio-economic and political crises of our time.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II
Economic Writings 2
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
This volume contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s most important book, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- The Crisis in African Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Why is Africa no longer able to feed itself? Lamine Gokou poses this question against a background of meticulous evidence charting the dimensions of the Continent's agricultural decline. He shows what has happened to overall food production, grain output, and levels of nutrition. He argues that the solution to Africa's food crisis must be primarily political. Technical measures can only work once African peoples have taken control of their own societies.
- The Crisis in Zaire
Myths and Realities
Resource Type: Book
In this book major theories of African development are examined through a case study of the long-term political and economic crisis in Zaire. What is unusual is that the analysts are both Zairians and Westerners and represent a variety of scholarly disciplines. The results are rewarding both for understanding Zaire and for stimulating new approaches to research on African development.
- Crisis of External Dependence
The Political Economy of Foreign Aid to Bangladesh
Resource Type: Book
This book presents an informed, wide-ranging and critical account of the impact of foreign aid on Bangladesh's economy and society. The author shows the distortive consequences that, in practice, aid has on his country's path of development, productive forces, and process of class formation. He demonstrates conclusively that Bangladesh cannot continue to rely on aid as its principal strategy of development.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
- Food, Shelter and the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
- The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx
1843 to Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Mandel discusses the development of Marx's economic ideas from their beginning to the completion of the Grundrisse. He combines a historical retrospective and a review of curent discussions on each of the subjects and problems central to Marxist economic theory.
- The Grundrisse
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Marx wrote this huge manuscript as part of his preparation for what would become A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (published in 1859) and Capital (published 1867). The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. The manuscript became lost in circumstances still unknown and was first effectively published, in the German original, in 1953.
- Help or Hindrance?
United States Economic Aid in Central America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Help or Hindrance? uncovers why the economic crisis in Central America has worsened as U.S. aid has skyrocketed in the 1980s. This report shows how security and military related aid, hidden under the rubric "economic aid," has far surpassed assistance for economic development, and argues that the positions of the fiscal conservatives, seeking to save U.S. taxpayers' money, and humanitarians, seeking to help the poor, are not necessarily in opposition.
- In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
- An Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism
Resource Type: Book
The author, a union organizer and activist, details the decline of the American union movement.
- "Just Say No!" to the Robin Hood-in-Reverse Bailout
And What to Do Instead
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The reverse Robin Hood deal to bail out the rich cannot be allowed to stand. It's time to take to the streets.
- Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
- Krisis
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2012
By 2010, Greece was in an economic crisis and the society and people were shown to be deeply affected by the country's state.
- Latin America
Peace, Democratization and Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Book
Wars between countries in Latin and Central America may be rare, but peace in the region is a fragile hostage both to economic crisis and repressive regimes, and Cold War conflicts and U.S. intervention. This book, which represents the views of leading Latin American scholars, explores the links between economic, military, and human rights issues and poses the question of possible solutions.
- The Looming Crisis of World Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
MARXIST ECONOMISTS ARE famous for having accurately predicted seven out of the last one international economic crisis. Perhaps for that reason, many in recent times have been unusually cautious about once again "crying wolf," even as the evidence of international economic dislocation has mounted around them. Today, however, prediction is no longer necessary. The international economy, outside of the United States and Europe—perhaps 50% of the world—is already experiencing...
- Madness and Ruin
Politics and Economy in the Neoconservative Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Watkin's book, based on his monthly articles in This Magazine is a scathing attack on the Mulroney government's adoption of neo-conservative economics. With their adoption of Reaganite policies they have cut back on transfer payments to the provinces thus hitting secondary school funding and medicare. They have also linked Canada to the United States with the adoption of the Free Trade Agreement and launched a full scale attack on the welfare state. The NDP is not spared his criticism and is blasted for its "appalling" performance in the free- trade election. It is a poweful jounalistic book that stands up well despite the passage of years.
- The March 29 Strike Against Labor Law Reform in Spain
Outline of the Conjuncture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The general strike of March 29, although it mobilized a good part of the population, apparently took place with more pain than glory. Once the day of the strike was over, everything seemed to continue as before: namely, the continuation of an aggressive policy against the wage-labor population, in an economic context characterized by recession.
- A Marxist History of the World part 101: The Long Recession
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation.
- A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 105: The 2008 Crash: from bubble to black hole
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The financial crisis represents the end of an era in which greed and casino-madness had been given free rein by market deregulation and rising debt.
- A Marxist History of the World part 106: The Second Great Depression
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Four years after the beginning of the crisis, the neoliberal elite is trapped by the contradictions of the system on which its wealth depends.
- A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- A Marxist History of the World part 82: The Hungry Thirties
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Beginning with the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the world economy entered the Great Depression. The misguided policies that world leaders pursued ensured that millions of lives were torn apart.
- A Marxist History of the World part 85: June 1936: the French general strike and factory occupations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the mid-1930s French workers launched a wave of strikes and occupations. Neil Faulkner explains how the Stalinised Communist Party worked to contain this resistance.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Mattick, Paul - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Paul Mattick (1904-1981).
- Multiculturalism or World Culture?
On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- "No one represents us": the 15 May movement in the Spanish state
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
On 15 May 2011 thousands of people, mainly young, demonstrated all over the Spanish state under the slogans "For real democracy now" and "We are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers". The demonstrations explicitly rejected the participation of political parties or trade unions.
- On Transforming Africa
Discourse with Africa's Leaders
Resource Type: Book
Hadjor believes that people have stopped asking questions about Africa. The depth of Africa's crisis seems to evoke passivity rather than serious discussion about solutions. But Hadjor argues that with Africa on the verge of a historic disaster, silence would be criminal. On Transforming Africa attempts to provide an explanation of the failures of the past and to force embarrassing issues out into the open.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
Resisting Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the rich. In this edition of Other Voices, and more extensively on the Connexions website, we look at both neoliberalism and the resistance to it. The version of capitalism which became dominant by the 1980s has been given the name neoliberalism. The term refers to the global economic restructuring which has taken place, and to the accompanying shifts in the structures of power under which local and national governments have seen their ability to act independently curtailed by international treaties and by institutions which owe their ultimate allegiance to corporate capital. The essence of neoliberalism has been an unending campaign of class struggle by the rich against the rest. Yet resistance continues, and indeed continues to grow.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
Greece and thd debt crisis
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Bogg’s 100th birthday.
- Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Poisoned Fruits of Austerity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The most dramatic advance of the far right is that of the National Front in France. It is not unusual that such forces prosper, with some working-class support, in the absence of well-articulated progressive alternatives.
- Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
A popular education pamphlet on the economic crises of monopoly capitalism.
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #6
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1975
- Russia's Crisis: Capitalism in Question
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS in Russia is a trigger for the world-wide decline in stock markets and currencies rather than its cause. Russia has been in a sharp economic crisis for a decade, since Gorbachev passed the Law on the State Enterprise, which first introduced market disciplines to the USSR. On the other side, the world is in a supply glut with too many products and not enough buyers. The Russian debt default looks like the first of a number to come.
- The Socialist Register 1982
Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Socialist Register 1991
Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Socialist Register 2012
Volume 48: The Crisis and the Left
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2012
- Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information.
- Spokes on the Anti-Austerity Wheel: Building Movements That Can Move Beyond Reform
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
When it comes to fighting the crisis of austerity cuts and financial recession, we need to focus on how to build fighting communities rather than simply reacting to the attacks.
- The State as Protection Racket
Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to 'follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgotten, despite recurring astronomic fraud perpetrated by US corporations.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- A "Tunisia Moment" Coming?
Against The Current vol. 160
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A prominent commentator and a brother of the former president, Moeletsi Mbeki caused a major stir last year when he announced that South Africa is headed for a “Tunisia Moment.”
- We Can't Save the Economy Unless We Fix Our Debt Addiction
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Our economy has increasingly been financialized, and the result is a sluggish economy and stagnant wages. We need to decide whether to stop the cycle and save the economy at large, or to stay in thrall to our banks and bondholders by leaving the debt hangover from 2008 intact. Without a debt writedown the economy will continue to languish in debt deflation, and continue to polarize between creditors and debtors.
- Women Organizing for Change
Confronting the Crisis in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A series of articles which seek to examine the effects of recent profound economic, social and political crises of the part several years, particularly the effects of the crisis on the lives of women in the region.
- The World Crisis
Its Economic and Social Impact on the Underdeveloped
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A reissue of the original edition published in Havana in 1983 under the title: "The World Economic and Social Crisis."
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