Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
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Neoliberalism on life support?
As the Mont Pelerin Society approaches its 75th anniversary this year, socialists and trade unionists need to start thinking about how to bring an end to the dead hand of free-market economics, says DOUG NICHOLLS
Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher and deputy leader William Whitelaw during a Conservative Group for Europe Press conference at the Tory Central Office
As the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war is marked, Teesside campaigners will gather to remember the local men and women who stood against fascism, explains TONY FOX
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
Washington’s inability to subjugate Iran is an example of how it is trying to preserve a regional order that no longer exists, argues RAMZY BAROUD
US financial instability is exposing the limits of a dollar-dominated global economy — and giving the Global South a historic chance to build an alternative, says MURAD QURESHI
Deprivation is a fundamental factor in criminal behaviour that must be addressed but, KENNY MacASKILL argues, there needs to a major rethink in sentencing to tackle overcrowding
APRIL this year marks the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society. This was convened by the infamous economist Friedrich von Hayek, who wanted to bring together a range of thinkers to oppose the advance of socialism and social democracy.
Few will recognise any names of members of this illustrious gang, except perhaps its founder Hayek or Milton Friedman, Thatcher’s economic butler-in-chief.
But the global elites know them well and have honoured at least nine of them with Nobel prizes in economics.
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