By Michael Roberts In my last post I discussed recent financial engineering and swindles that are traditional to the accumulation of and speculation in what
Category: International
By Harry Hutchinson, member of the Labour Party Northern Ireland. A week of violence, on a scale not seen for many years, has escalated tensions
By Richard Mellor in California Here we go again with the housing market. What is housing? It’s human shelter; that’s what it is to millions
By Ali Cevahir in Turkey We should always be suspicious about political leaders who say, “we are all in the same boat” and that applies
By Greg Oxley, PCF Paris From the Asian Marxist Review Future historians of revolutionary thought and action in the Indian subcontinent will surely find it
By Michael Roberts I must declare an interest. In days of old, many moons ago, I worked for an investment consultancy that advised Bill Hwang,
By Richard Mellor in California As a result of writing this post, I recalled that when I was young there was a TV show called
By Richard Mellor in California Janitors, members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 87 in San Francisco, struck on March 24th. The workers
By Michael Roberts Last week the US Federal Reserve raised its growth forecasts for the US economy for this year and next. Fed officials now
By Richard Mellor in California I once took a train from Istanbul or Ankara (I can’t remember now) to Baghdad in 1971. I remember going
