These are the slides used by Prof Mary Davis delivering this lecture on 26 July 2022. This was the second in a series of three lectures. The recordings of the other lectures can be found here.

Brochure for the Annual Marx Oration held on 14 March 2021 including the text of speeches given by Lydia Samarbakhsh, Head of the International Department of the French Communist Party, and Liz Payne, Chair of the Communist Party of Britain. 

Every fortnight, usually on a Monday, the Full Marx column in the Morning Star newspaper carries answers from the Marx Memorial Library & Workers’ School tutors to questions that are often asked by members of the public, and by students on its courses.

The Morning Star content here is presented as a Question and Answer resource sheet:  seek an answer to your question by clicking on the links in the article titles, or scroll through to search content by one of five themes: History; Philosophy; Economics; Environment; Revolution. 

International banking institutions are expressing growing concern about falling global investment, slowing growth and the very high levels of corporate debt. Interest rates are being lowered as a new systematic crsis threatens. In this context our keynote lectures will focus on the nature of capitalist crisis in the 21st century. Three distinguised Marxist economists will provide their own distinct analyses.