The Greater Manchester mayor has shifted left over the years — but his record still shows a tendency to wobble when pressure comes from the right, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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Shaking the foundations of the EU-Nato alliance
The EU and Nato are umbilically tied – but what will the new Trump era and a reconfiguration of US interests mean for the war in Ukraine, asks VINCE MILLS
United States Vice-President JD Vance, right, shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference
RAMZY BAROUD explains why Israel’s political collapse cannot be separated from its war crimes
DAVID RABY charts the ever increasing US attempts at intervention in Mexico’s internal affairs
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ and ROGER D HARRIS highlight how the priority for internationalists should be defending Venezuela’s government against external aggression
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
THE current economic and political crisis engulfing the EU has its roots in the very inception of the organisation and the influence of the US in its creation. The European Iron and Steel Community formed in 1951, which eventually morphed into the European Union in 1992 was heavily based on the ideas of the right-wing economist Friedrich Von Hayek.
Hayek wanted to limit state intervention in the economy and prevent, from his perspective, distortions of free trade and competition deriving from collective action. He supported the idea of creating a supranational government, seeing it as a way of limiting the power of the nation states.
In his own words: “Interstate federation that would do away with the impediments as to the movement of men, goods and capital between the states and would render possible the creation of common rules of law, a uniform monetary system, and common control of communications.”
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