Britain is heading for another 2008 crash: here’s why | David Graeber
The government wants us to believe our economic growth is sustainable, and that budgetary surplus will fix all our problems. But these are dangerous mythsBritish public life has always been riddled...
View ArticleTurkey could cut off Islamic State’s supply lines. So why doesn’t it? | David...
Western leaders could destroy Islamic State by calling on Erdoğan to end his attacks on Kurdish forces in Syria and Turkey and allow them to fight Isis on the groundIn the wake of the murderous attacks...
View ArticleThe elites hate Momentum and the Corbynites - and I’ll tell you why | David...
The movement that backed the Labour leader challenges MPs and journalists alike – because it’s about grassroots democracyAs the rolling catastrophe of what’s already being called the “chicken coup”...
View ArticleTheresa May recites Labour’s lines, but doesn’t mean a word of them | David...
It’s obvious the Tories have stolen Ukip’s platform – but the prime minister has also adopted Labour initiatives and slogans. She’s playing a clever gameEveryone already knows how much of Theresa May’s...
View ArticleI didn't understand how widespread rape was. Then the penny dropped | David...
I’m a lefty academic versed in feminist theory. Still, I rebelled against the idea that rich and powerful men regularly rape or attempt to rape womenThis is a very difficult column for me to write...
View ArticleWhy are world leaders backing this brutal attack against Kurdish Afrin? |...
Islamist militants – with Turkish army support – are wreaking havoc with a pocket of peace and sanity in the Syrian warThree years ago the world watched a ragtag band of men and women fighters in the...
View Article‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job
Copying and pasting emails. Inventing meaningless tasks for others. Just looking busy. Why do so many people feel their work is completely unnecessary?One day, the wall shelves in my office collapsed....
View ArticleCan the Tories reach young voters? – Politics Weekly podcast
Jessica Elgot is joined by Will Tanner, Katy Balls and Rebecca Lowe to discuss a raft of new Conservative thinktanks formulating plans to connect with young voters. Plus author David Graeber discusses...
View ArticleAmerica's Kurdish allies risk being wiped out – by Nato | David Graeber
Turkey is seen as the Kurds’ mortal enemy but it uses German tanks and British helicopters: this is an international outrageRemember those plucky Kurdish forces who so heroically defended the Syrian...
View ArticleThere's no need for all this economic sadomasochism | David Graeber
If Reinhart and Rogoff's 'error' has discredited the prevailing policy dogma, now is the time for an alternative that worksThe intellectual justification for austerity lies in ruins. It turns out that...
View ArticleThe truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it |...
The Bank of England's dose of honesty throws the theoretical basis for austerity out the windowBack in the 1930s, Henry Ford is supposed to have remarked that it was a good thing that most Americans...
View ArticleCaring too much. That's the curse of the working classes | David Graeber
Why has the basic logic of austerity been accepted by everyone? Because solidarity has come to be viewed as a scourge"What I can't understand is, why aren't people rioting in the streets?" I hear this,...
View ArticleSavage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself | David Graeber
Capitalists spread prosperity only when threatened by global rivalry, radical movements and the risk of uprisings at homeBack in the 90s, I used to get into arguments with Russian friends about...
View ArticleWhy is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria? | David Graeber
Amid the Syrian warzone a democratic experiment is being stamped into the ground by Isis. That the wider world is unaware is a scandalIn 1937, my father volunteered to fight in the International...
View ArticleOccupy Democracy is not considered newsworthy. It should be | David Graeber
Sleeping outside for an iPhone is OK, but do it in furtherance of democratic expression and you’re in troubleYou can tell a lot about the moral quality of a society by what is, and is not, considered...
View ArticleStudents are right to march against the markets. Why can’t education be free?...
After the 2008 crash, the most sensible reform would have been to make the financial system more like education, not vice versaThere is a certain type of joy only felt the first time one makes history,...
View ArticleRoy Bhaskar obituary
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionaryRoy Bhaskar, who has died aged 70 of heart failure, turned to philosophy only after becoming an economics...
View ArticleDavid Graeber: what the government doesn't want you to know about debt – video
There is one taboo of economics that the government is hiding from the public, argues David Graeber: it is the fact that if the government balances its books, it becomes impossible for the private...
View ArticleBritain is heading for another 2008 crash: here’s why | David Graeber
The government wants us to believe our economic growth is sustainable, and that budgetary surplus will fix all our problems. But these are dangerous mythsBritish public life has always been riddled...
View ArticleTurkey could cut off Islamic State’s supply lines. So why doesn’t it? | David...
Western leaders could destroy Islamic State by calling on Erdoğan to end his attacks on Kurdish forces in Syria and Turkey and allow them to fight Isis on the groundIn the wake of the murderous attacks...
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