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IRISH President Michael D Higgins handed international capital a strong rebuke yesterday in a barnstorming address to GMB congress.
Mr Higgins, a lecturer and Labour MP before he was elected head of state, slammed capitalist economic orthodoxy for creating “increasing inequality with horrific consequences in some of the richest countries in the world.”
And he hit out at “new forms of capital which have nothing to do with production” but instead promoted illicit international flows.
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
JOHN GREEN asks how can we take decisive action on population levels with a world leader who is a destructive ignoramus
