By Michael Roberts Back in 2021, Guglielmo Carchedi and I published a paper on Historical Materialism called The Economics of Modern Imperialism. The paper focused
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By Michael Roberts A general election in India starts today. 970m Indians, more than 10% of the world’s population, will head to the polls in
By Michael Roberts The semi-annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank starts this week. The agencies and their invited guests will discuss the state
By Michael Roberts The recent nonsense issued by the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on China’s ‘overcapacity’ and ‘unfair subsidies’ to its industries is particularly
By Michael Roberts In Q1 2024, global stock markets recorded their best first-quarter performance in five years, buoyed by hopes of a soft economic landing
By Michael Roberts Last week, Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He ran the highly successful FTX bitcoin hedge fund that supposedly
Amazon workers stand firm against management dirty tricks
By Birmingham Left Horizons supporters The workers at Amazon took further strike action in the last week of March, in their fight for £15 an
By Michael Roberts The book, The State of Capitalism, is an ambitious work. Written by the NAMe Collective with the lead from Professor Costas Lapavitsas
By Dave Putson (Unite Community – Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley) Norman Dodds was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1945 until his death in 1965, and
By Michael Roberts Current IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva is seeking a second five-year term as IMF managing director after being nominated by a string of