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Broken Britain

4 July 2024 - by Michael Roberts

UK citizens vote in a general election on 4 July. The opinion polls currently forecast that the incumbent Conservative party will be heavily defeated after 14 years in government. The opposition Labour party is expected to gain a majority of (...)
Mexico: from AMLO to Sheinbaum

1 June 2024 - by Michael Roberts

Mexico has its general election this Sunday. With a population of over 130 million, Mexico is among the 15 largest economies in the world and the second-largest economy in Latin America. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, has been (...)
Newsflash: Inequality in Neoliberal America

31 May 2024 - by David Schultz

If anyone is perplexed or surprised why Americans are so upset about the economy, they should look no further than the Income Distribution and Dynamics in America (IDDA) recent report by the Federal Reserve Board of Minneapolis and its data (...)
South Africa: hanging on

29 May 2024 - by Michael Roberts

South Africa has a general election today with 28m citizens registered to vote. Since the end of the apartheid regime three decades ago, the African National Congress (ANC) has won all the elections with substantial majorities. But this time (...)
India: Modi and the rise of the billionaire Raj

27 April 2024 - by Michael Roberts

A general election in India starts today. 970m Indians, more than 10% of the world’s population, will head to the polls in what will be the largest election in history for the Lok Sabha (House of the People) parliamentary elections. The poll (...)
Indonesia: still in the shadow of Suharto

14 February 2024 - by Michael Roberts

Indonesians will elect the country’s next president tomorrow (14 February). Indonesia is the world’s fourth-most-populous nation with over 280m people living in a myriad of archipeligo islands spanning Asia to Australia. More than 204 million (...)
“Austerity driven economic reforms affect women more than men”

14 September 2023 - by Balasingham Skanthakumar, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Lakmali Hemachandra

Dr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky was the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights between June 2014 and April 2020. He was previously a sovereign debt expert of the United Nations Conference on (...)
Marrakech, world wealthiest’ banquet hall, receives main makers of poverty and injustices in the world.

27 August 2023 - by Jawad Moustakbal

“We cannot allow our yesterday and today’s enemies monopolise thought, imagination and creativity.” - Thomas Sankara “I hope the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank will disappear soon” - Hugo Chavez My last visit, in the spring of (...)
1.2% of adults have 47.8% of the world’s wealth while 53.2% have just 1.1%

22 August 2023 - by Michael Roberts

Every year, I bring to the attention of readers of my blog, the results of the latest Credit Suisse Wealth Report. It is produced by economists Anthony Shorrocks (with whom I graduated at university), James Davies and Rodrigo Lluberas. It is (...)
Shipwreck in Greece: Why were half those onboard Pakistanis?

26 June 2023 - by Farooq Sulehria

At least 298 passengers who drowned in the infamous shipwreck off the Greek coast on June 14 were from Pakistan. Twenty-five came from the same village in Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir. According to some reports, more than 400 people (...)
How to combat the growing carbon inequality?

21 February 2023 - by Sushovan Dhar

Global attention has been drawn to the rising inequality that has recently been observed in almost all the nations. Growing inequality is a result of a number of reasons, including globalisation, technological advancement, labour market changes, (...)
The Dakar Declaration – Pan-African cooperation & global solidarity

1 February 2023 - by Collective

Scholars and activists from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, came together to draft the Dakar Declaration last year. The declaration condemns the constraints to Africa’s economic and monetary sovereignty. Against the multifaceted crises (...)
Polycrisis and depression in the 21^st century

6 January 2023 - by Michael Roberts

‘Polycrisis’ is the buzz word among leftists right now. The word expresses the coming together and interlocking of various crises: economic (inflation and slump); environmental (climate and pandemic); and geopolitical (war and international (...)
Brazil’s economic and political rollercoaster

31 October 2022 - by Michael Roberts

The latest polls put Workers Party leader Lula de Silva ahead in the two-horse race with incumbent right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro in today’s final round of the presidential election in Brazil. If Lula wins, it will be a dramatic comeback (...)
Latin America

Report on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for the CADTM World Assembly, Dakar, 13 -16 November 2021

23 December 2021 - by CADTM AYNA

Synthesis based on the responses received on the following questionnaire, from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Uruguay and Venezuela. The most important element in the political, economic and social situation in Latin America and the (...)
World inequality

9 December 2021 - by Michael Roberts

The world has become more unequal in income and wealth in the last 40 years. That’s according to the World Inequality Report 2022, available here. Produced by the World Inequality Lab had increased [within most (...)
[VIDEO] FESTIVAL SESSIONS: Growing private debt, vulnerability and inequality in South Asia

7 September 2021 - by Farooq Tariq , Sushovan Dhar, Amali Wedagedara, Nalini Ratnarajah

Presented by: South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE), Progressive Plantation Workers Union (PPWU) India, Manitham Trust India, Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangh (BNPS), South Asia Tax and Fiscal Justice Alliance (SATaFJA). Session is (...)