Category: International

By Michael Roberts The winter wave of Covid-19 cases continues to rage in Europe, North America and even Latin America and Asia.  So, as the

By Michael Roberts The Stigler Center at the Booth Business School of the University of Chicago has just published an e-book commemorating Milton Friedman’s pronouncement on the

By Hassan Jan The Indian farmers have further extended their march on the country’s capital New Delhi to a country-wide Bharat-Band (strike) in protest against a trio

By Caitlin Johnstone The Trump administration is reportedly close to moving the Houthi rebels in Yemen onto its official list of designated terrorist organizations with the goal

By Richard Mellor in California In March of this year, the US airline industry received a $25 bn bailout from the taxpayer via the Cares Act, along

By Michael Roberts The top 1% of households globally own 43% of all personal wealth, while the bottom 50% have only 1%.  The top 1%

By Richard Mellor From the socialist website Facts for Working People, this report of a campaign to reinstate a union representative supporting nurses fighting for PPE:

by Jak Webb in Australia  The release of the Brereton Report into war crimes by the Australian Special Operations Task Group in Afghanistan has predictably

By Michael Roberts The pandemic global slump of 2020 is different from previous slumps in capitalism.  The boom and slump cycle in capitalist production and