While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
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The old is dying
GAWAIN LITTLE argues that the prolonged economic crisis we have been experiencing presents opportunities for a working-class fightback
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THE new year is a time to take stock. Over the past decade and a half, we have bounced from crisis to crisis. While the incompetent handling of these crises can be laid squarely at the door of the Conservative government that was in office for the bulk of this time, their roots go much deeper.
From the great economic crisis of 2007-09 to the cost-of-living crisis of 2022 onwards, we have been affected repeatedly by fractures in the economic system, which have hit working people particularly hard.
Each of these individual events has been precipitated by specific factors — most recently, the war in Ukraine, crop failures due to climate change and the destabilising impact of the Tories’ handling of Brexit. However, as Michael Roberts argues in a recent article on The Polycrisis of Capitalism (Theory and Struggle 2024), across the entire period, there are clear underlying factors, amounting to a prolonged crisis of accumulation.
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