By Michael Roberts Economic growth The US economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2022, compared to the previous quarter, due in
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By Michael Roberts The Great Recession of 2008-9 was a turning point for the US global strategy. Up to then, the general aim was to
By Michael Roberts Apart from inflation and war, what grips current economic thought is the apparent failure of what mainstream economics likes to call ‘globalisation’.
By Andy Warnock Smith, retired RMT officer The RMT union are to ballot over 40,000 railway workers across Network Rail and fifteen train operating companies
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member I’ve seen many posts on Facebook of lifelong Labour supporters refusing to vote Labour in the
This is a short summary of the origins of May Day, from the TUC: Today is May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day It
By Andy Ford, Unite NHS rep Two thousand health workers on the Isle of Man are to be balloted for strike action after rejecting a
By our spy in their ranks When supporters of Militant were expelled from the Labour Party in the 1990s, it was because they were alleged
The election of Emmanuel Macron as president for another five years will open up a period of turmoil in French politics. But within the British
Every year more people are killed in their workplaces than in war. International Workers’ Memorial Day, (IWMD) coming just before May Day, is an occasion
