By Richard Mellor in California Chicago teachers voted unanimously last week to begin a strike on October 17th, continuing the ongoing struggles of teachers and
Year: 2019
By Michael Roberts The debt owed by corporations in the major economies has risen since the end of the Great Recession in 2009. With global
By Richard Mellor in California As we have stressed on the blogsite Facts for Working People many times, US capitalism is in crisis. Politically, the era in
By Geraldine O’Connell A major pre-general election rally to kick-start Labour’s campaign was held in Liverpool’s Grand Central Hotel on Saturday. Jeremy Corbyn was welcomed
By Michael Roberts Back in 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty published a blockbuster book, Capital in the 21st century. Repeating the name of Marx’s Capital, the implication
Sun 20 Oct 2019, 13:13 PM | Posted by editor LETTER from Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot Labour Party Panorama reporter, Justin Rowlett investigated whether as individuals
By Richard Mellor in California This is just a very quick report on the UAW/GM tentative agreement. The UAW wants to get this contract accepted
Thu 17 Oct 2019, 13:36 PM | Posted by editor LETTER from Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot Labour Party member Channel 4 recently did a documentary charting the
By Andy Fenwick, Worcester South Labour Party member You cannot trust the Boris Johnson with anything: lying to the Queen, to parliament, to his wives,
By Michael Roberts Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer (pictured) have been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (or to be more exact,
