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• British Capitalism, economy

  The UK economy is in recession: quelle surprise!

  20 February 2024, by PASHKOFF Susan

  The UK Economy is now in recession; Susan Pashkoff examines the economics, meaning, causes and politics.
  One of the biggest non-surprises is that the British economy fell into recession. It is unsurprising because all government and Bank of England policies worked to get us here. In fact, it (…)

• British Capitalism, economy

  The political economy of the cost of living crisis in the UK: What is to be done?

  7 March 2023, by ONARAN Özlem

  Introduction
  Soaring prices of energy, food, other essentials and rent in 2022, caused by multiple supply chain disruptions after Brexit and the pandemic, followed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, brought an intensive cost of living crisis, exacerbated by inequalities in class, race, gender, (…)

• British Capitalism, economy

  Britain: The Truss farce and Capital’s dilemmas in funding the state

  1 November 2022, by GOUGH Jamie

  Jamie Gough argues that the Truss/Kwarteng’mini-budget’ and the next Sunak/Hunt budget are only the most recent examples of a fundamental conflict for capital on fiscal policy, namely how the state is funded and how much it spends.
  The bourgeois media and the Conservative and Labour parties (…)