On Monday, Nick Clegg gave a speech on responsible capitalism. This was his first real foray into the debate since it has erupted as a major talking point, even though we as a party have been arguing the need to reform capitalism before it was cool. Before criticising capitalism, he praised it by saying this:

Ah. Another crisis in the markets, another bunch of half-wits proudly declaring the death of capitalism. I may be relativley young, but I have already witnessed several claimed deaths of capitalism: the credit crunch, the dotcom bubble, Black Whateversday in the late 80s, and there was possibly something else that cropped in the 90s that maybe was a sort of capitalism with pneumonia, but not that

Well, with the credit crunch, recession and creeping unemployment this is timely research from WHO (World Health Organisation) which reports that precarious employment can have a massive impact on mental health. Precarious meaning p/t work, low pay, no benefits and temporary contracts. The research team have also found that stress at work is associated with a 50

IS THIS the end of capitalism? Yes, according to the front page of the Socialist Worker, which has a piece by my old mate Chris Bambery, thundering: "Capitalism isn't

I've got a bit fed up over the last week with reading or hearing comments about how the credit crunch is a "collapse of capitalism". It isn't anything to do with capitalism - except superficially. Capitalism is an economic principle - not a political ideology - which is founded on the belief that the means of production remains in the hands of the individual and that the producers are ab...

A key political battleground now exists around the issue of creating a fairer system of capitalism. Ed Miliband initiated this agenda and now both David Cameron and Nick Clegg have said they want a move away from ‘crony capitalism’ to ‘responsible capitalism’. What we need are some strong ideas to make capitalism fairer – and here are five that can achieve this...

IS THIS the end of capitalism? Yes, according to the front page of the Socialist Worker, which has a piece by my old mate Chris Bambery, thundering: "Capitalism isn't

The Studies in anti-capitalism website provides free access to a collection of articles, papers and texts relating to the development of socialism and the struggle against capitalism by socialists, communists and anti-globalization movements. Many materials on the site have been written by Don Milligan. They include notes from courses on anti-capitalism which he has prepared for Manchester Metropo...

Capitalism is a system in which the providers of investment capital, the capitalists, are different people/companies from those that run/manage businesses. That is its fundamental property. (I focus here upon capitalism in its narrow investment sense, rather than upon the...

Goes off in praise of capitalism. But, at the risk of being thought one horn short of a helmet, can I beg to differ? You can no more immolate capitalism than you can pronounce the last rites over the lifeless corpse of laughter. Capitalism, like laughter, is the expression of an ineradicable human instinct. My belief in