By Sheraz Mel The longest war in the US history has culminated in a so-called peace agreement, cynically titled Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan,
Category: International Archive
By Michael Roberts A December 2020 meeting of the Chinese Communist party Politburo, vowed to end what it called a “disorderly expansion of capital”. The
By Michael Roberts The sixth report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) runs to nearly 4,000 pages. The IPCC has tried to summarise
Editorial: climate change is ‘inevitable, unprecedented and irreversible’
Only ten or twenty years ago, most activists in the labour movement would have assumed that climate change, although an important problem, would be one
By Richard Mellor in California Richard Trumka, head of the US trade union federation, the AFL/CIO, died last week. In answer to the effusive praise
End Vaccine apartheid now!
By Jack Gerson (in the USA) – a form of this article appeared in Facts for Working People, 4th August 2021 – see link at
By Michael Roberts The Austrian school of economics is outside the mainstream. The Austrians start from micro-assumptions. This is not the neoclassical view of rational,
By Richard Mellor in California The American Petroleum Institute (API) may have the “American” name to it, but it’s important to understand which Americans are represented by
Global warming: planning not pricing
By Michael Roberts Carbon pricing and carbon taxes are now proposed by international institutions and mainstream economics as the main solutions to ending global warming
By John Pickard Although global warming as a major political issue is a relatively ‘recent’ one, from the point of view of the science, it