China is facing serious economic problems.

Tories and Labour have moved into election mode.

Silicon Valley, Signature, Credit Suisse, the first of many?

Living standards will fall by 7% in the next two years.

By Peter Main At first sight, Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-budget” looks like nothing more than pandering to the Tory members who voted for Liz Truss. Anyone who seriously thinks that forcing part-time workers on Universal Credit to find a few more hours of work each week is going to have the slightest effect on the national […]

Assumptions that damage to the UK economy was inevitable have now been backed up with concrete evidence.

INFLATION IS at its highest level for over 40 years and the rate continues to climb. For workers under the age of 40, this is their first real taste of sustained rising prices. Prices began to rise back in the summer of 2021 but this accelerated in the first six months of 2022. Exacerbated by […]

Prices rise at record rates.

CHINA’S CONSTRUCTION industry, a key lever in Beijing’s entire economic policy, is facing a debt crisis of enormous proportions. Attention has focused on Evergrande, a development company, whose total debts are estimated at $310 billion and which failed to pay some $96 million interest on foreign bonds in September. Just three days before being declared […]

By Tim Nailsea BRITAIN’S ECONOMIC growth has almost stalled because of shortages of labour in parts of industry and of material inputs, due to disruptions in the supply chain, coupled with the effects of Brexit. GDP grew by 0.4% in August but is still 0.8% below where it was in February 2020, before the country […]

By Jeremy Dewar Workers in Britain are being hit by a triple whammy this month: inflation heading towards 5%; a £20 cut to Universal Credit, hitting the unemployed and worst paid workers; and the ending of furlough for 1 million workers, throwing hundreds of thousands out the door. These are not ‘temporary blips’ that will […]

Mass unemployment and the scourge of long-term joblessness have returned.

Coronavirus cases are surging once again.

Starmer opposes Corporation Tax increase.

Andy Yorke reviews The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism by Grace Blakeley

The war between Wall Street and Reddit shows you cannot defeat the capitalists at their own game.

Species extinction and the destruction of nature.

For a zero-covid strategy.

The global working class is threatened by the pandemic and economic crisis.

The latest figures are startling. The capitalist world economy is heading for a crisis. It has already broken out in the manufacturing sector

Our perspectives on the current global situation, League for the Fifth International Congress in Berlin, June 2019