Already the extremism of the new Argentinian president’s administration is being watered down in the face of reality – but now the Chinese central bank has cut funding it could be in serious trouble, writes JAMES MEADWAY

JAMES MEADWAY looks at the multiple emerging crises, most linked to climate change, that will lead to price rises for consumers and bumper profits for big business. The solutions, however, are simple

An early adherent of free-market fundamentalism, at Thatcher's side throughout her most damaging years, Lawson attacked our unions, industry and the very fabric of our society, writes JAMES MEADWAY

The Bank of England has been swinging its interest rate bludgeon for the last year, and the wreckage is starting to pile up, warns JAMES MEADWAY

JAMES MEADWAY reminds us that the standard eight-hour day, five days a week is only a relatively recent invention

With two avowedly Thatcherite figures in the Tory leadership race, JAMES MEADWAY looks at what Margaret Thatcher was prepared to do to beat the miners — and what her descendants may do to beat us

Higher interest rates, at a time when more and more people are being forced to borrow to pay for essentials, would be disastrous and risk a damaging recession, warns JAMES MEADWAY

Targeting of Russia's basic financial infrastructure is already proving effective — but this is a weapon honed in Europe over the last decade of crisis, writes JAMES MEADWAY

With calls to hold back wages growing louder, JAMES MEADWAY explains that the real sources of inflation today are from the huge disruptions caused by Covid-19, and the growing costs of an unstable environment

JAMES MEADWAY sizes up a Budget which has driven a coach and horses through the government’s green rhetoric

JAMES MEADWAY sizes up Johnson’s speech to Tory Party conference

The proposed increase falls short of what's needed to cover the social care for the elderly and vulnerable, and will hit the poorest workers hardest. The real solutions rely on taxing the rich, explains JAMES MEADWAY

The announcement by the G7 countries that they would introduce a global minimum tax for corporations is a clear shift in the economic order, writes JAMES MEADWAY

Progressive political parties worldwide should be taking notes from the Democrats’ remarkable trillion-dollar boost to US infrastructure — and asking why we cannot be as ambitious, argues JAMES MEADWAY

The shadow chancellor announced promising ideas in her speech to Labour Connected. These can be developed by the movement but it’s essential an anti-cuts agenda is kept to the fore, writes JAMES MEADWAY