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IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
The bubble is set to burst again – but speculators never learn
As house prices – fuelled by idiotic government policy – approach pre-crash levels, another recession is set to follow, writes JOHN ELLISON
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
More expensive by weight than gold, saffron is surprisingly simple to grow. MAT COWARD explains
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
The Durham Miners’ Gala is a celebration of working-class culture, but also a call to action — to rebuild workers’ collective strength, says KIM JOHNSON MP
ECONOMIST Heather Stewart last week referred to the 2007 sub-prime mortgage crash and its aftermath as “the latest in a series of periodic convulsions in modern capitalism.” She had no doubt that “a fresh crisis looms.”
She linked this prospect to warnings in recent days from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Nations’s trade and development arm UNCTAD. A specific fear is that speculative money which “swills unchecked around the world,” may be abruptly withdrawn from these countries. The fear stems from the protracted recent fall in global commodity prices and the connected slowdown in weaker economies.
The possibility of increased global interest rates, for six years rejected as an option, only enhances this fear. Fellow economist Larry Elliott wrote in Monday’s Guardian that the IMF message to Europe and Japan is “to print some more money,” as raising interest rates could have “nasty spillover effects around the rest of the world.”
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