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Overproduction crisis highlights

  • Capitalist crisis / Capitalists are causing inflation, not workers!

    It’s time for the hoary old myth about wages causing inflation to be put to bed. Higher wages lead to lower profits, hence the bosses’ opposition.

    29 Jan 2023 ,
  • USA / The US ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ – blatant protectionism

    US monopolies are hoping to survive the present crisis at the expense of their rivals, but alienating all their allies will ultimately only hasten their demise.

    24 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Science and technology / Microchips and monopoly: a new front in the global struggle

    What is the significance of the USA's quest to repatriate the complex chain of semiconductor production?

    10 Jan 2023 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Communist replies to BBC budget tips: ‘Get out and see the real world.’

    What kind of ‘journalist’ could seriously investigate whether ‘showering at the gym’ could be a money-saving tip for impoverished workers?

    5 Jan 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Happy new year?

    There is no reform that could enable this profit-hungry system to serve the needs of the working people.

    3 Jan 2023 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Communist responds to patronising BBC advice for a ‘budget’ Christmas

    Naughty? Nice? It’s time workers stopped believing the fairy tale that we get what we ‘deserve’ and organised to fight for what we need!

    24 Dec 2022 ,
  • Brazil / Can Lula get Brazil back on track?

    Much has changed since Lula’s first presidency. While the economic situation is far more difficult, international shifts could work in the country’s favour.

    10 Dec 2022 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Polycrisis? Time to put an end to this capitalist madness

    This system is unable to escape from its own absurd contradictions: in particular the insanity of deepening poverty in the midst of ever-accumulating wealth.

    7 Dec 2022 , Lalkar
  • World / Imperialist aggression hastens demise of US hegemony and the rise of Brics

    As history moves on, new alliances are being formed that are more in tune with the real balance of forces in the world.

    25 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Czech Republic / Czech communist leader on the mass movement against Nato’s war

    Josef Skála explains what is driving the huge protest movement that has rocked his country to its foundations.

    13 Nov 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis!

    The capitalists have shown themselves to be entirely unable to run their own system for the benefit of society.

    4 Nov 2022 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Cost of living crisis: the fightback is under way

    Growing militance among unionised workers and vigorous new campaigns to combat the effects of poverty and inflation signify a change in the workers’ mood.

    6 Sep 2022 , Lalkar
  • Social wage / Food bank Britain

    British families are relying on charity to eat as the market and the government both fail to provide even such a basic necessity as food.

    20 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Boris in trouble: It’s the economy stupid … and that bloody stupid war

    The commentariat might not be admitting it, but it is the Ukraine war that looks like finally finishing off Boris Johnson’s premiership.

    11 Jun 2022 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / Why should the working class pay the cost of the capitalist crisis?

    Profiteering, taxation, money printing, social provision cuts, interest rate hikes ... are all combining to transfer the burden of the crisis onto the backs of the poor.

    16 Mar 2022 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / Crisis is inescapable while capitalism remains

    The working class’s historic role is to put an end to profit-driven capitalism and to build a new, socialist society in its place.

    4 Jan 2022 ,
  • Economy / ‘Just in time’ reveals the fatal inadequacy of market mechanisms

    Global supply lines have been designed with profit maximisation, not the needs of the people, in mind.

    16 Nov 2021 , Proletarian
  • China / What do Evergrande’s troubles mean for the Chinese and world economies?

    No amount of state intervention can break the connection between overproduction crisis and the market.

    9 Nov 2021 , Lalkar
  • Industry / The Sanjeev Gupta, Lex Greensill and David Cameron affair

    Once again we see the absurdity of a system that leaves the fate of essential industries and millions of workers in the hands of rapacious fraudsters.

    21 May 2021 , Lalkar
  • Industry / Greensill debacle: the door keeps revolving

    The collapse of this particular debt-laden finance house is drawing public attention to some very uncomfortable truths.

    3 May 2021 ,
  • Industry / Cameron’s hand caught trapped in the till as Greensill collapses

    The collapse of yet another debt-laden house of cards has shone a light on the revolving door between career politicians and the corporations they serve.

    27 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Industry / With ‘saviours’ like Gupta, who needs enemies?

    If you are rich enough, you can get richer still without spending a penny; it is the workers who pay when the vultures’ schemes collapse.

    9 Mar 2021 , Proletarian
  • Society / Time to end poverty: expropriate the expropriators!

    Bourgeois commentators are increasingly identifying the problems besetting humanity, but they are congenitally incapable of recognising the solution staring them in the face.

    23 Jan 2021 ,
  • Social wage / Humbled by their own incompetence: ‘winter economic plan’ back to square one

    Lockdown exacerbates ruling class conflict over future for employers, employees, and unemployed.

    24 Nov 2020 , Proletarian
  • Bolivia / Elon Musk on Bolivia: ‘We will coup whoever we want!’

    Bolivia’s ‘lithium coup’ is yet another example of a regime-change operation carried out at the behest of imperialist corporations.

    9 Sep 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / UBI: a recipe for universal misery

    Our demand must be for meaningful work in a society free from poverty, unemployment and insecurity.

    24 Aug 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Nissan slashes workforce and pensions, poised to flee Sunderland altogether

    Blame Brexit; blame covid ... blame anything but the capitalist system.

    31 Jul 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Rising inequality following the 2020 crisis of overproduction

    Mushrooming inequality has the capitalist class spooked, for they fear the consequences.

    29 Jul 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / British Gas and SPS are latest to announce big job losses

    As the economic crisis bites, employers are looking to cut not only jobs but also pay, pensions and everything else.

    25 Jun 2020 ,
  • Pay and conditions / BA threatens to sack its entire workforce

    After rinsing the furlough scheme, the airline is now insisting that its staff should accept huge pay cuts or be sacked.

    16 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / UBI: the ‘right’ to be idle or the right to work?

    What does the call for a universal basic income really mean?

    8 Jun 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Thousands more to go at Rolls Royce’s Derby plant

    As more and more manufacturing jobs are being scrapped, workers are the victims of the downward spiral of capitalist crisis.

    6 Jun 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Dilemma of the covid crash vultures

    Having maximised indebtedness in order to avoid paying taxes, vulture capitalists now find they are missing out on state aid during the crisis.

    29 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobless total rockets

    As the economic crisis bites, over a million workers in Britain have been forced precipitously onto the breadline.

    24 May 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / British Airways takes the money and runs

    The Covid-19 crisis is highlighting the necessity for public ownership of all our vital services.

    13 May 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism

    Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto.

    1 May 2020 ,
  • Capitalist crisis / Burying bad news: crash caused by overproduction not coronavirus

    The present economic crisis has been long in the making, but is being passed off as the result of the covid lockdown.

    29 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Health / Covid-19: Why is it that Cuba can manufacture PPE, but Britain can’t?

    Britain’s frontline workers continue to put their lives on the line, paid in broken promises and empty gestures.

    28 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Social wage / Hunger rising sharply as covid-19 lockdown combines with economic crash

    Why are we witnessing the obscene sight of workers going hungry in the midst of plenty?

    17 Apr 2020 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / RIP FlyBe

    The only rational way to ensure that vital infrastructure exists and is run for the benefit of all is public ownership.

    9 Mar 2020 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / FlyBe farce exposes lunacy of privately owned transport

    A hefty subsidy to the airline’s private owners may not be enough to save a vital service and thousands of jobs.

    22 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Car industry crisis pushes Peugeot-Fiat merger

    Workers rightly fear for their jobs as another round of ‘cost-cutting’ looms.

    15 Jan 2020 , Proletarian
  • Climate change / COP25: Has anything actually been achieved to help save our environment?

    As the imperialists haggle and back-peddle, the simple truth is that you have to be red to be green.

    3 Jan 2020 , Lalkar
  • USA / General Motors workers on strike in the US

    The workers have paid a heavy price for their employer’s return to profitability.

    25 Oct 2019 ,
  • Climate change / The TUC and climate change: don’t mention the wars

    Unions tail-end middle-class eco protests and stoke illusions in ‘green’ capitalism.

    28 Sep 2019 , Proletarian
  • Ukraine / Zelensky empowered by new parliament, but fails to deliver change of direction

    Ukraine’s new president is patently failing to live up to the peaceful hopes of the workers who elected him.

    17 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Capitalist crisis / New recession will hit workers still paying the price of the last one

    The capitalist system is unable to find a way out of the downward spiral of overproduction, crisis, austerity and war.

    10 Sep 2019 , Lalkar
  • Industry / British Steel sold for ‘blood money’? A reply to the Morning Star

    Where should workers look for their salvation from the crises that destroy industry and jobs?

    26 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Nissan to cull 12,500 jobs globally as Chinese car market stalls

    The crisis of overproduction continues to wreak havoc with workers’ lives.

    12 Aug 2019 ,
  • Greece / Greek parliamentary elections and the demise of the Syriza government

    A case study in the irresistible laws of capitalism.

    1 Aug 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Fight against the closure of Ford Bridgend

    Workers are not to blame for the crisis; stop redundancies and demand nationalisation!

    17 Jun 2019 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / British Steel: overproduction crisis claims another scalp

    As thousands of workers lose their jobs, the vultures of Greybull Capital are standing at the front of the queue for ‘reimbursement’.

    3 Jun 2019 , Proletarian
  • Turkey / Relations weakening between Ankara and its Nato allies

    The overproduction crisis is taking its toll on the stability of Erdogan’s AKP government, moving it away from unquestioning support for imperialism.

    5 May 2019 , Lalkar
  • Divide and rule / Asda continues to flout equal pay rulings

    Automation and unequal pay are just two of the tools being used by retail giants to divide workers, reduce costs and win the cut-throat war of competition.

    14 Mar 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Honda doesn’t blame Brexit

    The cover is blown on the attempt to blame everything on Brexit as Honda’s CEO denies that the Swindon closure has anything to do with Brexit uncertainty.

    28 Feb 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Jobs massacre at Jaguar Land Rover confirmed

    Overproduction not Brexit is to blame. But if there really are too many cars in the world, what are workers to do?

    16 Jan 2019 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / Defend Brexit and manufacturing jobs

    Overproduction in the car industry is being blamed on ‘Brexit uncertainty’ in an effort to justify reversing the EU referendum result.

    9 Jan 2019 , Birmingham Worker
  • Disputes / Cammell Laird strike suspended for now

    Workers’ resistance has led to a stay of execution at the Merseyside shipyard.

    3 Jan 2019 , Lalkar
  • Lay-offs and closures / Cammell Laird shipyard strikes

    Overproduction is hitting industry after industry, proving once more that capitalism cannot solve the problems of the masses.

    27 Dec 2018 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / FT leaks plans by Jaguar Land Rover to axe 5,000 jobs

    The joy of capitalism: unemployment is the workers’ reward for enriching the company's owners.

    21 Dec 2018 , Birmingham Worker
  • Lay-offs and closures / Ford plans jobs massacre

    Overproduction is affecting the car industry severely, as glutted markets take their toll on sales and workers are thrown to the wall.

    18 Oct 2018 , Proletarian
  • Lay-offs and closures / More redundancies in the Midlands: Rolls-Royce and JLR

    The world crisis of overproduction is far from over.

    12 Aug 2018 , Proletarian
  • USA / Trump, tariffs and global trade

    Trade wars very often lead to shooting wars, and are one more sign of the deepening crisis of capitalism.

    23 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • Housing / Housing shortage in the midst of plenty

    It is not the right to buy that workers need, but the right to a home.

    5 Apr 2018 , Proletarian
  • Leaflets / Housing: a crisis of capitalism

    What must be done in order to provide decent homes to all workers?

    1 Mar 2018 ,
  • Lay-offs and closures / The collapse of Carillion

    Financial and political commentators are suddenly ‘discovering’ that PFI and the privatisation of services might not be such a good deal after all.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • Iran / Tehran foils imperialist destabilisation plot

    But the government will need to pursue domestic policies favourable to the working masses if it is to strengthen its hand against imperialism.

    1 Feb 2018 , Proletarian
  • British politics / Theresa May’s election U-turn

    Proposed new laws to curb strike action by key public-sector workers were hastily ditched as Corbyn's popularity rose during the election campaign.

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Industry / Industry matters: Fighting the trade war harder

    1 Dec 2017 , Proletarian
  • Capitalist crisis / The rich are getting richer but fewer

    As the gap between the rich and poor widens, some of the rich find themselves being kicked downstairs.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Brazil / Attempted coup in Brazil

    The Brazilian masses face a concerted onslaught from the combined forces of US imperialism and the local ruling class.

    1 Apr 2016 , Proletarian
  • Greece / Crunch time for Syriza?

    The bloodsuckers are running out of ways to keep Greece paying out. The imminent explosion will rock the world’s financial systems.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • USA / Baltimore uprising reveals working class’s revolutionary potential

    When revolutionary science and organisation come together with the power and anger of the US’s poor, there will be no stopping them.

    1 Jun 2015 , Proletarian
  • Theatre / Play: The Power of Yes by David Hare

    Explaining nothing, this play is aimed merely at letting off some steam without getting any nearer to a solution to society’s systemic problems.

    1 Oct 2009 , Proletarian

Overproduction crisis topics

  • Anti-union laws
  • Drive to war
  • Inequality
  • Inflation
  • Overproduction crisis
  • Poverty
  • Protests and strikes
  • Sanctions
  • Ukraine war
  • Vladimir Putin
  • 2020 crash
  • Supply lines
  • Car industry
  • Green technology
  • Technology
  • Trade war
  • US imperialism
  • Civil rights
  • Justice system
  • Outsourcing
  • South Korea
  • Taiwan
  • BBC
  • Housing crisis
  • Hunger
  • NHS
  • Oil
  • Privatisation
  • Utilities
  • Brics
  • European Union
  • sanction
  • Yugoslav war
  • Anti-imperialism
  • Anti-imperialist Platform
  • CPGB-ML
  • Eastern Europe
  • Fascism
  • Imperialist war
  • KKE
  • Nato
  • NKPJ
  • Non-cooperation
  • Food industry
  • Latin America
  • Reforestation
  • Debt
  • Liz Truss
  • Pensions
  • Rishi Sunak
  • Leninism
  • Marxism
  • October revolution
  • Science
  • Arms industry
  • Nuclear energy
  • Opec
  • SCO
  • Anti-communism
  • Nuclear power
  • British imperialism
  • Enough is Enough
  • VI Lenin
  • DPRK
  • WW3
  • Tax
  • DPUK
  • MMT
  • Unemployment
  • Planned economy
  • Boris Johnson
  • Corruption
  • Media lies
  • Tory party
  • Covid-19
  • Austerity
  • Banks
  • Ninth congress
  • UBI
  • Greek crisis
  • Greenwashing
  • Social democracy
  • Syriza
  • Logistics
  • Construction industry
  • CPC
  • Market socialism
  • British manufacturing
  • Steel industry
  • Vulture capitalism
  • Children
  • Lockdown
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  • Capitalist crisis
  • Big tech
  • Bolivian coup
  • Lithium
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  • The state
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Overproduction crisis video

  • Civil liberties / Joti Brar on RT: New laws on strikes and protests aim to contain workers’ anger

    Instead of helping workers weather the inflation crisis, our rulers are preparing to suppress any future rebellion.

    16 Jan 2023, Proletarian TV
  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘New globalisation?’

    Are we witnessing the end of ‘globalisation’ as we have known it for about the last 40 years?

    22 Dec 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Yugoslavia / British delegates in Belgrade: Nato is trying to expand the war in Europe

    The imperialists desperately hope they can win out in the end by wearing Russia down and causing her economy and society to collapse.

    18 Dec 2022,
  • Theory / Comrade Joti: Why our rulers hide the truth about socialist science

    ‘The whole history of our movement tells us we must not leave this vital work to others. Every one of us needs to get educated!’

    3 Dec 2022, Proletarian TV
  • Theory TV / Ella Rule: Lenin on revolutionary theory (What Is To Be Done?)

  • World / Paris Declaration: The rising tide of global war and our tasks

  • Capitalist crisis / Kwarteng’s budget: less red tape – fewer workers rights

  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Ranjeet: ‘Cost of living crisis is inseparably bound up with capitalism’

  • USA / To US workers: ‘Only class politics can save us from the rampaging monopolists’

  • Capitalist crisis / Covid has laid bare the capitalist dystopia in which we are already living

  • Capitalist crisis / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘No Trust’

  • World TV / Comrade Joti on RT’s CrossTalk: ‘Rethinking globalism’

  • Theory TV / Marxism in the 21st century: is it still relevant?

  • Britain TV / Revolution in Britain

Overproduction crisis theory

  • Capitalist crisis / It’s not the workers but the capitalists who are causing inflation

    It is the right and the duty of workers to demand a bigger share of the wealth their own labour has created.

    25 Jan 2023,
  • Capitalist crisis / The cost of living crisis is a capitalist crisis

    Economic crises are an inescapable feature of life under the market system. Socialist planning is our only way out.

    4 Nov 2022, Proletarian
  • Theory / Is inflation good for you?

    What is really at the root of the inexorable rise in prices?

    5 Dec 2021, Proletarian
  • Theory / Yanis Varoufakis and Diem25: erratic Marxism and consistent anticommunism

    It is scientific socialism that workers need, not plausible lies about how to ‘fix’ social democracy, the EU, and capitalist imperialism itself.

    3 Dec 2021, Lalkar
  • Theory / Modern monetary theory: is there a magic money tree?

    Those who would change the world must first understand it: Marxist economics is the antidote to bourgeois voodoo.

  • Capitalist crisis / The oil slump and its ramifications

    In attempting to retain domination over the oil market, Saudi Arabia has alienated its most important ally, supporter and protector.

  • Capitalist crisis / The economic crisis and coronavirus

    In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution.

  • Lay-offs and closures / Job cuts and factory closures; the car industry in Britain

    As automation and overproduction combine to wipe out industrial jobs, what is the answer to this seemingly insoluble problem?

  • Science and technology / Right to repair: a threat to monopoly superprofits

    Apple are using their monopoly to rob workers by designing their phones and laptops to break. It’s wasteful, anti-environment and anti-worker; it’s capitalism!

  • Capitalist crisis / Trump and US capitalism in perspective – interest rates and the Federal Reserve

    The US government is rolling big in the capitalist casino.

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