By Michael Roberts 2023 ended with the US stock market hitting a record high. US S&P-500 index Financial markets and mainstream economists breathed a sigh
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By Ray Goodspeed, Leyton and Wanstead Labour Party member Daniel Levy was an official Israeli government negotiator under the government of Ehud Barak from 1999
By Michael Roberts Every year at this time, I look back at the books that I have reviewed during the year on this blog. The
By Michael Roberts This post is long but something well worth reading during the festive break. As I mentioned in a recent blog, at the
By Michael Roberts Apparently 85% of economists forecast a recession in the US in 2023 – and they were wrong. My own forecast post for
By Left Horizons reporters Left Horizons does not agree with all of the expressions of support for a ceasefire in Gaza. There is often a
By John Pickard It is impossible to keep up with the number of labour movement organisations in the UK which have expressed some kind of
By John Pickard The revelations that came out in the Covid inquiry in the last month weren’t really revelations. We all knew that Tory ministers
In the next week we will no doubt have inflicted upon us the ‘official Christmas photographs’ of Rishi Sunak and his family. It is a
By Andy Ford Last month saw the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination of US President, John F Kennedy, in Dallas Texas. The local police and
