Ben Wray finds radical honesty in the Andreas Malm’s call for ecological War Communism, but wonders where the agency for such a shift will come from.

Financialisation has changed the relationship between bosses and workers. Unions must change to face these realities argues Ben Wray, in a review of a new study of these problems.

Ben Wray reports from the Basque country on the Catalan elections, finding both hope and predicament for the independence movement.

Ben Wray examines a history of the banking system in Scotland, and asks what the implications of monopolisation and financialisation are for Scottish socialists.

Conter is publishing a series of reflections on the movement for Scottish independence. In our first piece Ben Wray argues the Scottish National Party leadership’s relationship to the British state means it is not pursuing independence as real objective.

Coronavirus has triggered a global economic shock, with far reaching consequences. Ben Wray argues it is pulverising the economic consensus both around the world and in Scotland.