By Michael Roberts China’s Congress of the Communist Party takes place this week. This is an important event not only for China, but globally. The
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Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent war have cast a long shadow over European politics and economics and that is likely to continue for
By Michael Roberts Shock therapy was the term used to describe the drastic switch from a planned publicly owned economy in the Soviet Union in
By Ade Koudehi As hundreds of thousands of Iranian women, students and schoolgirls burn their hijab scarves, “the flag of the ruling class”, the Islamic
From the website of Akhbar-rooz [Editorial note: this is an extract from an article on the above website, dealing with the history of the women’s
From La Riposte [Editorial note: the rise of the far right in Italy, and the responsibility for this through the failures of so-called ‘moderate’ socialists,
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour Member The BBC’s Panorama programme last Monday looked at the issue of so-called ‘illegal’ migration and the Tories’
By Michael Roberts The UK government’s economic policies under new PM Liz Truss have caused a stir among not only leftists, but also among mainstream
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By Michael Roberts “If there was no intervention today, gilt yields could have gone up to 7-8 per cent from 4.5 per cent this morning
Interview with Awais Qarni, the campaign’s organiser, from 9 September 2022 Pakistan is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe. A third of the country has suffered the
