For committed socialists it seems to be getting increasingly difficult to justify being a member of the Labour Party. Keir Starmer’s latest attack on the
Year: 2022

By Michael Roberts The major economies are moving closer to recession, if they are not already there; and yet inflation rates continue to rise (for

Review by Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour Member I had a bird’s eye view of the effects of climate change. On the day when

UK and US say China is a threat – a little history is in order!
Richard Mellor from the USA shares some thoughts on the Opium Wars of 1839-42 History is sort of important stuff: the history of anything, music,

By Michael Roberts Once again, Western ‘experts’ are predicting a financial crash in China. “China is flailing”, says one commentator; another says “a debt bomb is about to

By Mic Craig in Northern Ireland and John Pickard Fifty years ago, on July 21, the IRA detonated more or less simultaneously 20 bombs in

By John Pickard The Forde Report is out and where it deals with undeniable facts, it is a crushing vindication of the charge that senior

As the CPI inflation rate officially hits 9.4%, having risen for nine months in a row, for most workers the real increase in the cost

By Richard Mellor in California I just returned from visiting friends and relatives back in Ireland and the UK and, as usual, the differences between

By David Niven PCS, the Public and Commercial Services Union, has announced its national strike ballot is to begin on 26 September and will run