TUC president and POA leader STEVE GILLAN speaks to Ben Chacko on the eve of Congress 2026
ECONOMICS is known in some quarters as the dismal science and is often presented as an overly complicated set of facts, figures and formulas.
In reality it’s an analysis of the choices that individuals, businesses, governments and nations make to allocate resources and, it must be said, to exert political power. Through it we can analyse the impact of class and the class struggle.
I am not any sort of economist — as I’m sure some reading this will be quick to agree. But even I can see that the trade tariffs that United States President Donald Trump has just slapped on the world are utterly ridiculous.
The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
JENNY CLEGG looks at the key points that defined the China-US relationship, for now
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON


