By Michael Roberts John Michael Roberts (no relation) is Professor of Sociology and Communications at Brunel University London. In his new book, Digital, Class, Work:
Category: International

Planning and the climate
By Michael Roberts The only way humanity has a chance of avoiding a climate disaster will be through a global plan based on common ownership

By Michael Roberts On December 6, US president Joe Biden joined Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in Arizona for a symbolic

By Iyad Hadad, field researcher for B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organisation. [Editorial note: Everyday life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is one

By Gauthier Hordel In 2018 and 2019, Boeing made the headlines with two successive disasters involving the 737 MAX of Indonesia’s Lion Air and then

Rhys Jameson gives his take on the Qatar 2022 Football World Cup Capitalism is mired in a series of interlocking crises, everywhere you look there

COP15: the two horsemen of the apocalypse
By Michael Roberts COP15 started this week in Montreal, Canada. This is the UN’s biodiversity summit. In effect, it is an international meeting to discuss

By Michael Roberts Stock markets rallied in November as inflation rates subsided a little and the US Federal Reserve began to talk of lower interest-rate

Twitter welcomes back thousands of Nazis
By John Pickard While the UK government is putting through parliament a rather tame bill to oblige social media companies to protect children who go

By Michael Roberts Is China heading for an uncontrolled COVID infection surge as it relaxes is strict lockdown policy, as is claimed by the Western