By Michael Roberts China’s Congress of the Communist Party takes place this week. This is an important event not only for China, but globally. The
Year: 2022
By a member of the National Education Union The TUC conference, postponed after the death of the Queen, opens next Tuesday, and the preliminary agenda
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent war have cast a long shadow over European politics and economics and that is likely to continue for
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member. ITV’s Tonight Programme illustrated the extent of the cost-of-living crisis. The ‘End fuel Poverty Coalition’ predicts
By Michael Roberts Shock therapy was the term used to describe the drastic switch from a planned publicly owned economy in the Soviet Union in
By Ade Koudehi As hundreds of thousands of Iranian women, students and schoolgirls burn their hijab scarves, “the flag of the ruling class”, the Islamic
From the website of Akhbar-rooz [Editorial note: this is an extract from an article on the above website, dealing with the history of the women’s
Panorama: The Green Energy Scandal Exposed
Letter from Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye CLP) on the latest green-washing scandal. The full programme can be viewed here. Panorama’s reporter, Joe Crowley, investigates
By Andy Ford UNISON General Secretary, Christina McAnea, gave an interesting interview on the Andrew Neil programme last week, which might give an insight into
By Abigail Pollock A major bus strike by Arriva London North bus drivers, set for the first week of October, was only averted after an