By Michael Roberts This article was originally published on 24 February 2023, the day before the Nigerian presidential elections, by Michael Roberts on his blog
Category: International Archive
The war in Ukraine is entering its second year. It has led to enormous loss of life on both sides, among civilians and combatants, and
By Michael Roberts It’s just a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I am not going to discuss the politics of this war in
By Michael Roberts There has been a burst of optimism about the state of the world economy since the beginning of the year. At the
Energy giants profiteer at workers’ expense – and the planet’s
By John Pickard It is hardly surprising that there are calls being made for additional taxes on oil and gas corporations, given that they are
By the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign In the late hours of Monday night, February 13th, Comrade Rauf Khan Lund was arrested by the Counter
By Michael Roberts In his latest book, FT columnist and Keynesian guru Martin Wolf, starts from the premise that capitalism and democracy go together like
By Ali Cevahir in Istanbul After the earthquake in the south east region of Turkey the first measure taken by the President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,
The Shamima Begum Story: TV review
Mark Langabeer (Hastings & Rye Labour member) ‘This World’, a BBC 2 documentary series, interviewed Shamima Begum, who remains in a refugee camp in Syria,
By Michael Roberts Three of the major central banks met and raised their policy interest rates yet again in the so-called ‘fight against inflation’. Interest-rate
