Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) on the latest round of this shameful saga (photo – Ray Goodspeed) The decision of the UK Tory Government
Month: January 2023

Davos 23: going pear-shaped
By Michael Roberts This week, the jamboree of the rich global elite of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has started again after the COVID interregnum.

By Michael Roberts The inflation rate for consumer prices in the US has clearly peaked and is falling steadily. The latest figure for year-on-year inflation

Chelsea Manning’s autobiography: exposing the dark secrets of US imperialism.
Ray Goodspeed reviews “README.txt” (2022 – The Bodley Head/Penguin Random House) Chelsea Manning’s life-story, described in this book (named after the computer file she uploaded

By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member. The TUC is organising the first coordinated action of all of those trade unions that have balloted

By Michael Roberts In some ways, the radical sessions at ASSA (Allied Social Science Associations) were disappointing. As far as I could tell there were

By Michael Roberts As usual, there were hundreds of sessions and papers at this year’s ASSA 2023, the annual conference of the American Economics Association

By Andy Ford, Unite NHS rep The nursing strikes called by the Royal College of Nursing on December 15 and 20 were a tremendous success.

By John Pickard It is clear from the most recent opinion polls that the Labour Party’s fortunes are rising despite its current leadership. The YouGov

Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) looks at a myth-busting book by Tariq Ali (2022 – Verso) This book, given to me as a