Only ten or twenty years ago, most activists in the labour movement would have assumed that climate change, although an important problem, would be one
Category: International
By Richard Mellor in California Richard Trumka, head of the US trade union federation, the AFL/CIO, died last week. In answer to the effusive praise
End Vaccine apartheid now!
By Jack Gerson (in the USA) – a form of this article appeared in Facts for Working People, 4th August 2021 – see link at
By Michael Roberts The Austrian school of economics is outside the mainstream. The Austrians start from micro-assumptions. This is not the neoclassical view of rational,
By John Pickard In the early hours of the morning, fifty years ago today, Operation Demetrius swung into action. In a huge series of dawn
By Richard Mellor in California The American Petroleum Institute (API) may have the “American” name to it, but it’s important to understand which Americans are represented by
Global warming: planning not pricing
By Michael Roberts Carbon pricing and carbon taxes are now proposed by international institutions and mainstream economics as the main solutions to ending global warming
By John Pickard Although global warming as a major political issue is a relatively ‘recent’ one, from the point of view of the science, it
By John Pickard Without a doubt the best Netflix film I have seen in a long time is the Trial of the Chicago 7 and
Review by Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member A very interesting BBC Three production reported on the case of two 20-year-old women convicted of
