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By Joe Langabeer and Guy Cowen-Hutton Former health secretary during the New Labour years, Alan Milburn, has published the first part of his report into why soRead More

By Michael Roberts Goldman Sachs, the mega investment bank, reckons that AI is just “one big trade on the US economy”. And the AI investment bubble isRead More

By John Pickard In the first major rebuke for Donald Trump, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a ‘war-powers’ resolution this week, blocking Donald Trump from carrying outRead More

by Pablo Híjar The following interview, of the Bolivian economist and trade unionist, René Behoteguy, was published in Por el Socialismo in Spain. It analyses the causes andRead More

By Michael Roberts At the end of 2025, corporate profits in the major economies accelerated after stagnating in 2024. The global figure below is calculated from aRead More

From B’Tselem B’Tselem is an Israeli human-rights organisation and monitors the harassment and repression of the Palestinian population by the Israeli state. The following is taken fromRead More

By Andy Ford This year is the 100th anniversary of the death of the Soviet writer, Dmitri Furmanov, best known for his civil war novel, Chapayev (ЧапаевRead More

By John O’Brien (Cumbria Green Party Executive Member) and Glenda O’Brien (member of the Labour Party and the Socialist Health Association). The Equality and Human Rights CommissionRead More

By David Niven, PCS member, Defra North West & Cumbria Branch PCS is the largest union representing workers across national government bodies such as the civil serviceRead More

By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Monday, 25 May 2026. The original article can be found here. ************** American Edmund PhelpsRead More