Those whom capital needs to impoverish its media first makes unpopular... The official hate campaign against the couple who set fire to their house killing their six children is only an extreme example of a concerted effort to divide the working class, and it is particularly cynical coming between catastrophes in Bangladesh (to take just one example) where 100s of workers have been burned or crushed to death by their employers' thirst for profit.

Since we wrote the article ‘Are we reliving a crash like 1929?', the media has already changed its tone, no longer playing down the extreme gravity of the present economic crisis or its similarities with 1929. But it is important to put all the current talk about ‘the end of capitalism' into a clear perspective.