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
Category: International Archive
By John Pickard The war in Gaza has now entered its seventh month, having brought about an unprecedented scale of death and destruction in a
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
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 On 26 March, I went, at short notice, to the lobby of the Royal Courts of Justice (RCJ), as this could be
2023: the hottest year on Earth for 100,000 years
By John Pickard While Gaza is burning and its population deliberately starved, and while the Tory government is slowly collapsing into a stinking cesspit of
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
By Left Horizons reporters [Editorial note: We do not normally publish the speeches of diplomats, couched as they often are in mealy-mouthed and hypocritical language.
Judging by statements he has made to the media, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was determined that the IDF press ahead with a ground operation