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 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
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COP28: business as usual
By Michael Roberts The COP28 conference on what to do about global warming and climate change held in Dubai finished last Thursday. Attended by a
Report by Bexley Labour Left Seven police officers initially stationed outside the Erith and Thamesmead Constituency Labour Party’s AGM on late afternoon Saturday reflects how
By Michael Roberts Ridley Scott’s new film on Napoleon Bonaparte has been criticized from many angles. Filmwise, some reckon it is boring, inexplicable in parts
By Michael Roberts Last week, the second estimate for the US real GDP in Q3 of 2023, i.e. national output, was released. It came in
By John Pickard The savage bombing of Gaza, and the horrific death toll it has caused, has caused global outrage and even misgivings among those
