By Michael Roberts In the first post of my Future of Work series, I looked at the impact of working from home and remote work
Month: June 2022

By the editors of Media Lens Last Friday’s decision by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to authorise the extradition of Julian Assange to the United

By Michael Roberts It’s been a big week for the major central banks. First, the European Central Bank (ECB) called an emergency meeting because government

By Michael Roberts I recently participated in a zoom seminar to review a new book entitled Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century by Alberto

By John Pickard This book, long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2020, provides an interesting and moving perspective for anyone interested in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Letter from Bob Edwards, Harlow Labour member. The no-confidence vote in Boris looks like a well-timed diversion! It’s a handy distraction from a real crisis

Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, takes donation from Tory donor with private health interests
Hedge fund owns over US$800m in corporation at the heart of US private health and NHS Americanisation Republished from Skwawkbox. Keir Starmer’s Shadow Health Secretary

Astonishingly, despite serial lying about Downing Street parties, the biggest cuts in living standards for a generation, 40 per cent of his own MPs wanting

The scissors of slump By Michael Roberts Last week, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the US Congress that “We now are entering a period of

From the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers As you may be aware industrial action across the UK has been named to take