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Someone wearing a grey hoodie walks through a field of strawberries holding a box. Other people pick fruit in the background.

17 Mar 2023 5 minute read

Food barons are making a killing from this crisis

Ahead of their event on resisting monopoly capitalism, Global Justice Now’s Nick Dearden explains the rise...

22 Dec 2022 7 minute read

16 million and counting: the collateral damage of capital

Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel investigate how neoliberal policies have led to the deaths...

Back to work: garment workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after factories re-opened in May. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

1 Jul 2020 18 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse

A clamour to return to the status quo after Covid-19 would be bad news for people and the planet, argues Richard...

2018 saw a record high in global carbon emissions.

24 Feb 2020 9 minute read

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The poverty of progress

Our understanding of progress perpetuates poverty, inequality and climate change. Martin Kirk and ...

27 Nov 2018 1 minute read

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How finance capital ruined London

Alienation and empire in the Big Smoke. An interview with photographer and writer Lewis Bush by Husna Rizvi.

23 Nov 2018 3 minute read

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The movement replacing ads with anti-capitalism

Alessio Perrone reports on a new campaign of seizing ad space to impose powerful critiques of capitalism....

19 Jan 2018 3 minute read

This article is more than five years old.

Laughing and crying online

Social media use is correlated with mental health problems. But is it simply cause and effect? Marcus Gilroy-Ware...

Demonstrations at COP23 in Bonn. Sean Hawkey/WCC

20 Nov 2017 3 minute read

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COP’s talkfest is the ultimate copout

Climate conference is all words and no action, says Māori activist Noah Te Rama Thomas Pene.

16 Aug 2017 4 minute read

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Free comics for everyone!

Capitalism is bad for graphic novels, Sean Michael Wilson argues.

28 May 2017 2 minute read

This article is almost six years old.

This capitalism theme park will make you shudder

KidZania is an unashamed shrine to the sterile, dystopian human-made landscapes, comedian Steve Parry writes...

16 Nov 2016 3 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Wolfgang Streeck: how will capitalism end?

Capitalism's end might be in sight, but it might not be good news, German sociologist Wolfgang Streeck warned in a conference...

1 Nov 2016 8 minute read

This article is more than six years old.

Blinded by 'technology'

For all the fancy packaging, many of our gadgets have nothing to do with capitalist success stories. Bob Hughes...

1 Jul 2015 5 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

Capitalism’s stormy sea

Richard Swift begins his journey through political alternatives to capitalism by looking at the nature of the beast they seek...

1 Jul 2015 6 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

The people’s flag is deep and red

How have socialism and social democracy worked as alternatives? wonders Richard Swift.

1 Jul 2015 6 minute read

This article is almost eight years old.

Eco-divide: this changes everything

Richard Swift considers why the environmental crisis is as much of a challenge to the Left as it is to the...

10 Mar 2015 3 minute read

This article is more than eight years old.

Capitalism and human rights abuses go together like yin and yang

Violence and oppression make this the most dangerous political system, argues Amit Singh.

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