By Michael Roberts Stock markets rallied in November as inflation rates subsided a little and the US Federal Reserve began to talk of lower interest-rate
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By Michael Roberts Kohei Saito is an associate professor at Tokyo University and an erudite Marxist scholar. Not a candidate for a best-seller in the
By Michael Roberts Do ‘excessive’ wage rises lead to rising inflation and thus drive economies into a wage-price spiral? Back in 1865, at the International
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Historical Materialism Conference – monopoly, imperialism, inflation and Ukraine
By Michael Roberts As usual it won’t be possible to report on all the many sessions at this year’s London Historical Materialism conference that took
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) reviews a recent ITV documentary. ITV’s Tonight programme recently examined the latest crisis in interest rises (click here).
By Michael Roberts Americans go to the polls today to vote in the so-called mid-term elections for the US Congress. All the seats in the
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Another cop out?
By Michael Roberts COP 27 started over the weekend. COP stands for the conference of the parties under the UNFCCC. Under the 1992 UN framework
By Michael Roberts Danish Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen achieved a successful result in yesterday’s general election. The SD polled 27.5% of the vote (the
By Michael Roberts The latest polls put Workers Party leader Lula de Silva ahead in the two-horse race with incumbent right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro in
By Michael Roberts In many previous posts, I have argued the current sharp rise in inflation rates in all the major economies does not derive
