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
Category: International Archive
By John Pickard The Biden administration has set some alarm bells ringing in Jerusalem by its threat to impose sanctions on a unit of the
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 John Pickard The Iranian missile and drone attack on Israel over the weekend has changed nothing fundamental in the political and military balance in
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 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
