By Andy Ford, Warrington South CLP The outbreak of school student protests across England and Wales in early this month shows the level of volatility
Year: 2023
Hundreds of thousands of workers took strike action on Wednesday, Budget Day. Protesting against the relentless erosion of their living standards, strikers included rail workers,
By Michael Roberts As I write, US regional banks stock and bond prices are diving. And a major international Swiss bank, Credit Suisse, is close
By Michael Roberts Last week, US Fed Chair Jay Powell gave testimony to the US Congress on inflation and Fed monetary policy. He spooked financial
Letter from John Wake, Harlow Dear Editor, Harlow MP, Robert Halfon, ought to be ashamed of his endorsement of the aptly-named, Illegal Migration Bill. Aptly
By Sam Gleaden, Mental Health Worker They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual
By Michael Roberts On Friday, Californian bank Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis. In a sudden
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour Member Nye Bevan, one-time Labour MP, and the Health Minister who gave us the NHS, once described the
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member Business as Usual was a ‘low budget’ film, made in 1987, but was based on real events
By Michael Roberts This article was originally published on 5 March 2023, the first day of China’s annual National People’s Congress, by Michael Roberts on