By Michael Roberts The newly elected Labour government’s first budget has just been presented. Rachel Reeves, the UK finance minister (called Chancellor of the Exchequer
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By David Cartwright, Glasgow ‘Total Trust: Surveillance State’ is a 2023 documentary from the Storyville series. It looks at the pervasive surveillance operations put in
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Saturday, 26 October 2024. The original article can be found here. The featured
By Michael Roberts This week the IMF-World Bank semi-annual meeting takes place in Washington, US. At the same time, the BRICS+ group meets in Kazan,
By Michael Roberts Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson have been awarded the Nobel (really the Riksbank prize) in economics “for studies of
By Michael Roberts In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism is an important new book
Marx’s theory of value: collapse, AI and Petro
By Michael Roberts A site called Marxism and Collapse (M&C) has conducted a ‘dialogue’ with an AI model called Genesis Zero (GZ) that includes “an
By Michael Roberts Today is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The survival of the PRC is now
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Saturday, 28 September 2024. The original article can be found here. The featured
Keep Grangemouth Working campaign
By David Cartwright, Unite, Glasgow Retired Members’ Branch Since last November, a campaign has been underway to save oil refinery jobs at Grangemouth in Central