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Inflation: the working class doesn’t have to pay for it
As organised labour gets more assertive at last, we cannot let rising prices outstrip our wages – inflation is the result of monopoly capitalism and the rich must be the ones that are forced ‘cut back,’ explains ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Inflation vs worker
CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities
It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country
Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER
On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right
FIFTY years ago, global capitalism came to a crossroads. The enormous costs of the US’s long, costly Asian war produced great debt and pressure on the gold-backed US dollar.
The imperialist alliance with Israel brought a disruptive, unprecedented boycott on the part of the oil-producing nations resisting Israel’s occupation of Arab territories.
Intense competition between the dominant US economy and the resurgent Euro-Asian economies was shrinking profit margins.
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