By Michael Roberts The cost of borrowing to invest or consume is reaching record levels. One benchmark for this is the real interest rate on
Category: International
By Richard Mellor in California I just watched this very good interview (below) with Frank Hammer, former president of UAW local 909 in Detroit, on
By John Pickard It is almost a given that the left in the labour movement is opposed to NATO. But unfortunately, that opposition sometimes skews
By Michael Roberts This month the European Central Bank again hiked its policy interest rate, the rate that provides the floor to all credit rates
By Richard Mellor in California I just watched the video (below) which is UAW president Shawn Fain’s latest update on the strike against the big
By John Pickard In a move that paralleled the election of Sharon Graham as General Secretary of Unite, the United Autoworkers in the USA elected
Letter from John Wake, Harlow Labour member Yesterday, September 11, was the fiftieth anniversary of the death of President Salvador Allende in a military coup
By Michael Roberts In the first part of my coverage of this year’s IIPPE annual conference, I outlined the discussion from just one session in
1973: counter-revolution in Chile. Part THREE
By Roger Silverman [Editorial note: Fifty years ago this month, on September 11, 1973, a military coup took place in Chile, putting a committee (‘junta’)
By Michael Roberts The annual conference of the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) took place last week in Madrid. The IIPPE
