Hillel Ticktin
Articles by Hillel Ticktin
Austerity: The madness of a dying system
November 29 2012
The ruling class has no alternative to austerity and the drive to create a pristine capitalism. Not only is that impossible, but, as shown by South Africa, the working class is beginning to revolt. This is an edited version a speech by Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, on November 17
Economics of the madhouse
October 25 2012
Hillel Ticktin reviews: Paul Krugman' End this depression now!', Norton, New York, 2012, pp272, £14.99
The decline of money
March 01 2012
If we are to understand the present crisis we need to grasp the decaying relationship between money, production and value. Hillel Ticktin discusses the growth of fictitious capital and impossibility of getting money to make money
Marx's spectre haunts the wealthy and powerful
December 01 2011
The ruling class has no workable strategy for rescuing the system, argues Hillel Ticktin
The theory of capitalist disintegration
September 08 2011
More and more people are saying, 'Marx was right'. But can the present crisis of capitalism be explained by the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, famously discussed by Marx? Profits are high and there is a massive overaccumulation of capital. This is edited version of the speech by Hillel Ticktin to Communist University 2011
Propaganda of the deed
June 09 2011
Harley Filben reviews Sean Birchall's 'Beating the fascists: The untold story of Anti-Fascist Action' Freedom Press, London 2010, pp413, £15
The tragedy of Sylvia Pankhurst
June 09 2011
Sectarianism led to putting individual projects before party
In defence of Leon Trotsky
February 25 2010
Hillel Ticktin demolishes Robert Service's much hyped Trotsky: a biography (Harvard University Press, 2009, pp600, £25)
Anglo-American solutions and imposing discipline
August 06 2009
Peter Manson spoke to Hillel Ticktin about the economic crisis
Capitalist crisis and the tasks of Marxists
August 07 2008
Campaign for a Marxist Party will shortly publish a manifesto, which is currently being prepared. This section on the political economy of the current period is authored by Hillel Ticktin
What next for Campaign for a Marxist Party?
December 20 2007
Following the election of a new committee of which he is a member, Hillel Ticktin gives his thoughts on the tasks of the Campaign for a Marxist Party
More dangerous than ever
November 22 2007
Hillel Ticktin concludes his series on the relevance of Marxist categories with an examination of the theory of capitalist crisis and its application to the current global situation
Potential for working class struggle
November 15 2007
Hillel Ticktin identifies abstract labour as the key to collectivity in Marx's labour theory of value
For realism, for humanity
November 08 2007
What is the Marxist method? Hillel Ticktin looks at the main features. This is the first of three articles
Toothless motions and hysterical attacks
September 20 2007
The proposed UCU boycott of Israeli universities is an ineffective weapon, argues Hillel Ticktin.1 This is the first in a series of articles on the issue which will feature various writers
Marxism and democracy
July 12 2007
Hillel Ticktin' was the speaker at the fringe meeting hosted jointly by Campaign for a Marxist Party and the CPGB. Nick Rogers reports
Don't revive absurd slogans
January 18 2007
Lenin's pre-April 1917 'democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry' was unworkable, writes Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique
No more historical abortions
December 14 2006
Hillel Ticktin highlights the bogus nature of planning in the Soviet Union and locates the central importance of Europe for the transition to socialism
Seeds of the new society
December 07 2006
Within the symptoms of decline, Hillel Ticktin argues, there are anticipations of the future
The transition to socialism
November 30 2006
Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, examines some of the central elements of Marx's theory about the future society
The call for a party
October 12 2006
Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, explains the thinking behind the November 4 conference to establish a Campaign for a New Marxist Party
Decline and the transition to socialism
October 13 2005
Hillel Ticktin concludes his discussion on the theory of decline by examining its forms as capitalism makes way for a higher society
The theory of decline and capital
October 06 2005
In the first of two articles, Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, looks at the rise and fall of different modes of production and the problems of transition and non-transition
Political economy of aid
June 30 2005
What lies behind the establishment's 'campaign for Africa'? Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, looks beneath the hype
Declining capitalism
March 31 2005
On the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto: Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique
