By Michael Roberts Jay Powell, the chair of the US Federal Reserve, made a keynote speech at the annual summer symposium of central bankers in
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By Richard Mellor in California The Saudi regime, in particular its leader and dismemberer in chief, Mohammed Bin Salman, has sentenced that nasty Saudi woman,
By Cain O’Mahony This year marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the momentous Battle of Stalingrad (23rd August 1942), the costliest battle in
By Gray Allan, Falkirk CLP Following independence from Britain in 1948, Burma/Myanmar was a military dictatorship from 1962 to 2011. A military junta seized power
By Michael Roberts Is the global inflationary spiral peaking? And if it is and inflation is set to fall over the next year, then has
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Illegal to be me – homophobia in the Commonwealth.
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour Member) reviews Tom Daley’s documentary “Illegal to be me” on homophobia in the Commonwealth (see here). The diver and
By Hassan Jan It has been a year since Taliban’s takeover of Kabul after the ignominious fall of Western-backed regime of Ashraf Ghani. The so-called
By Michael Roberts In my last post, I described how Western capital is planning to take over and control Ukraine’s resources and exploit its labour
This month marks the 75th anniversary of the partition of ‘British’ India, an event accompanied by enormous hardship and loss of life, as the subcontinent
By Michael Roberts Last week, Ukraine’s foreign private creditors agreed to the country’s request for a two-year freeze on payments on about $20bn of foreign
