By the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign In the late hours of Monday night, February 13th, Comrade Rauf Khan Lund was arrested by the Counter
Category: International Archive
By Michael Roberts In his latest book, FT columnist and Keynesian guru Martin Wolf, starts from the premise that capitalism and democracy go together like
By Ali Cevahir in Istanbul After the earthquake in the south east region of Turkey the first measure taken by the President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,
The Shamima Begum Story: TV review
Mark Langabeer (Hastings & Rye Labour member) ‘This World’, a BBC 2 documentary series, interviewed Shamima Begum, who remains in a refugee camp in Syria,
By Michael Roberts Three of the major central banks met and raised their policy interest rates yet again in the so-called ‘fight against inflation’. Interest-rate
By Michael Roberts Meeting the social needs of the world’s population through the production of goods and services depends on the amount of labour employed
By Michael Roberts China is in deep trouble. Its zero-COVID policy has failed; the economy has slowed to a halt; it now has a falling
Davos 23: going pear-shaped
By Michael Roberts This week, the jamboree of the rich global elite of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has started again after the COVID interregnum.
By Michael Roberts The inflation rate for consumer prices in the US has clearly peaked and is falling steadily. The latest figure for year-on-year inflation
Chelsea Manning’s autobiography: exposing the dark secrets of US imperialism.
Ray Goodspeed reviews “README.txt” (2022 – The Bodley Head/Penguin Random House) Chelsea Manning’s life-story, described in this book (named after the computer file she uploaded