ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
Employment rate plummets amid sterling rate drop – this is not coincidental
Changed financial conditions are having an impact in Britain and the United States, writes JULIAN VIGO
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
EARLIER this month, the euro-US dollar (EUR/USD) exchange rate fell about the same time that sterling fell after the Bank of England raised its main interest rate by 0.75 percentage points to 3 per cent. This brought borrowing costs to the highest level since 2008.
The exchange rate shift has also resulted in a slowdown in employment growth.
This is a direct result of the US Federal Reserve tightening its policy earlier this year around longer-term interest rates that have moved significantly higher, where stock prices have declined sharply and the dollar has increased in value.
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