By Michael Roberts The victory of Gabriel Boric in the Chilean presidential election last weekend was a crushing blow to the capitalist establishment, its press
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By Michael Roberts “The inflation that we got was not at all the inflation that we were looking for,” US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell
By Andy Fenwick, Worcester South Labour member “It’s the same the whole world over: It’s the poor what gets the blame. It’s the rich what
By Michael Roberts The world has become more unequal in income and wealth in the last 40 years. That’s according to the World Inequality Report
By Michael Roberts Once again, it is time to look at what is happening to the rate of profit on capital in the US. I
By Michael Roberts The Chinese Communist party’s central committee recently held its sixth plenum, to discuss “the major achievements and historical experience” of the party in its
By Michael Roberts How is the global recovery after the COVID pandemic going? The economic consensus is that the major economies are recovering fast, driven
Tom Greenwood (Leyton and Wanstead CLP), a band member and respected session musician, asks “Who’s makes all the money from music streaming?” The music streaming
By Michael Roberts János Kornai recently died at the age of 93. He was a Hungarian economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the
By Michael Roberts Twilight capitalism: Karl Marx and the decay of the profit system is the best book on Marxist political economy in 2021. Authored
