The cathedral's former canon, the Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, said he regretted being made a "poster boy" for the anti-capitalist movement.

BBC: Ed Miliband warns of St Paul's protest 'danger signals'

The election last week of a hardline anti-capitalist as Iran's new president has added to fears of a disruption in supply.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

If these sub-sets of the GOP truly favored capitalism, why would they prefer the relatively anti-capitalist Gingrich to the relatively pro-capitalist Romney?

FORBES: Mitt Romney's Uphill Battle Against Anti-Capitalist Conservatives

Several weeks later, Assange flew to Kenya for the World Social Forum, an anti-capitalist convention, to make a presentation about the Web site.

NEWYORKER: No Secrets

As Jeffrey Gedmin of the Aspen Institute in Berlin observes, the anti-capitalist rhetoric of this year's German campaign matched the anti-American tone of the last one.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Italy, unable to reform, has made a virtue of a low-wage, low-productivity economy, with little social mobility, a choice given respectability by the preaching of a complacently anti-capitalist Church.

NEWYORKER: Booted

One explanation for Mr Chirac's embrace of a soft-left, statist, instinctively anti-capitalist creed could be that he is playing Mr Blair's post-ideological game of stealing the opposition's clothes ahead of the 2007 presidential election.

ECONOMIST: The French president

Graf is not anti-capitalist, not even anti-Wall Street.

FORBES: Dear President Obama: You're No Saul Alinsky

Olivier Besancenot's New Anti-Capitalist Party secured under 5%.

ECONOMIST: France's victorious centre-right

This is particularly tricky when writing about Jewish culture, since drawing connections between Jews and capitalist markets could reinforce certain anti-Semitic stereotypes.

FORBES: Magazine Article