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
By John Pickard Unfortunately, it is being suggested once again by some on the left that the Labour Party is ‘dead’. Some of those arguing
By Michael Roberts The UK government’s economic policies under new PM Liz Truss have caused a stir among not only leftists, but also among mainstream
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The liquidity crisis and drowning naked
By Michael Roberts “If there was no intervention today, gilt yields could have gone up to 7-8 per cent from 4.5 per cent this morning
By Phil Frampton, author of Youth and the Mystery Wall I had originally intended to write a paper on collective empowerment for adolescents, but the
The scissors of slump By Michael Roberts Last week, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the US Congress that “We now are entering a period of
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Inflation: wages versus profits
By Michael Roberts The Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey set the attitude of the mainstream view on the impact of inflation in
40 years ago today, on 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands known in that country as the Malvinas. We re-publish here an article
By Michael Roberts The Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds agonisingly on with more dying and displaced and with further destruction of Ukrainian cities, farms and
