By Michael Roberts Last Tuesday, the trade and technology war launched by the US on China back in 2019 took another ratchet up. The US
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By Michael Roberts This post was first published on May Day in the Lebanon journal, Project Zero, in Arabic. https://alsifr.org/new-era-labourer May Day is traditionally celebrated
By Michael Roberts The liberal leftist economist and Nobel (Riksbank) prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has another book out to proclaim the benefits of what he
By Michael Roberts Grace Blakeley is a media star of the radical left-wing of the British labour movement. She is a columnist for the left-wing
By Michael Roberts Once again the US Federal Reserve is in a quandary. Does it cut its policy interest rate soon in order to relieve
By Michael Roberts The great and the good have just finished attending a special World Economic Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The theme of the
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
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
