3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (230+ words) This article was originally published on Michael Roberts’s blog The Next Recession “Is Keynesianism dead?” says Andy Haldane, former chief economist at the Bank of England, writing in the Financial Times. Haldane’s answer is “Keynesianism, if not dead, is potentially…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (418+ words) The tide has turned internationally against Israel and for the Palestinians. Events in Britain this week underline it. They provide an opportunity to extend the Palestine movement and to win further practical gains. Within weeks and months. The reaction by…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (624+ words) CN: Can you outline what has been happening in Bromley-by-Bow and the conditions that tenants have been forced to live under? SM: Residents in the Devons Road area of Tower Hamlets have endured inadequate access to drinking water for more…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (920+ words) May I introduce you to the latest champion of women, Western civilisation and law and order? On Monday Adair, who has lived in Scotland for the last quarter of a century (for reasons I will explain) was interviewed by the…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (257+ words) It’s war. Or it will be soon. That’s the message thrown at us almost constantly. In reality, the extent of the wars already taking a terrible toll is substantial, and the danger of them linking up into a third world…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (571+ words) Counterfire John Westmoreland reports on the fightback against the racist far-right in Doncaster Last Saturday Unite the Right came to town for a hate-fest. In response, local activists got together and managed to get a counter rally in place that…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1203+ words) The word ‘chutzpah’, derived from the Yiddish, is defined as ‘supreme self-confidence, nerve, or shameless audacity’. John Healey’s behaviour towards the end of last week was chutzpah at its most shameless and audacious. Healey, you may recall, is the man…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1658+ words) Walter Benjamin was a rather erratic Marxist who, for example, never joined any organisation and lived the majority of his adult life in the Weimar Republic in Germany and, after Hitler came to power, in exile. He would re-emerge long…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (584+ words) The word ‘ceasefire’ has lost all meaning. For Israel, ceasefire means continuing to carry out airstrikes on Palestinians in Gaza, killing over 1,000 since the ‘ceasefire’ began. It means carrying out drone strikes on civilians in Lebanon and blowing up whole…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (433+ words) Disinflation ended with the pandemic and inflation has returned. The average annual rise in US consumer price inflation has been 3.9% in the 2020s and that rate is likely to rise further given the impact of the Iran war on the global…...