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Understanding Inflation & Capitalist Economic Anarchy

  • /// Economy, Theory
  • Hazel Grinberg and Rob Rooke, Socialist Alternative (ISA US)

Working people may wonder if they will ever understand economics: the stock market soaring while most people are struggling, the scale of the AI data

China’s Crisis Deepens: 48 Million Unemployed

Top Chinese economist’s speech reveals growing alarm as economic crisis deepens China’s real unemployment rate is 10.2% according to a top Chinese economist. That’s double the official rate – currently

  • /// China, Economy
  • Vincent Kolo, ISA International Political Committee
Space X

AI IPOs: Next Stage Of The Bubble?

While we pay through the nose for shortages stemming from Trump’s war on Iran, his billionaire friends are gambling trillions on the AI bubble. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has outraced Anthropic

  • /// Economy
  • Tony Gong, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
a stock market graph

The Bond Markets Demystified

In the media we are bombarded with endless warnings about the ‘bond markets’. But despite the ominous-sounding headlines about rising yields, or Andy Burnham’s call for Britain to stop being

  • /// Economy, Theory
  • Connor Rosoman, Socialist Alternative (ISA in England, Wales & Scotland)

The Xi-Trump Summit and What It Says About the US-China Imperialist Conflict

On 14-15 May, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, the leaders of the two major imperialist powers, met in Beijing. This was the “stalemate summit” as some media described it, high

  • /// China, Economy, United States, War & Resistance
  • Per-Åke Westerlund and Vincent Kolo, ISA International Political Committee
factory in Shenzhen, China

There is Nothing Temporary About China’s Economic Crisis

Record Youth Unemployment, Worsening Property Crash and Consumption Slump Over the past few years, the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship and the bourgeois media have repeatedly claimed that ‘a recovery is

  • /// Asia & Pacific, China, Economy
  • Li Yong, chinaworker.info
Lenin's Imperialism

Lenin’s “Imperialism” Today – 2025 Introduction

The following article is an introduction to Vladimir Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism which was republished by Socialist Alternative England, Wales and Scotland in 2025. While there have

  • /// Economy, Theory, War & Resistance
  • Claire Laker-Mansfield & Tom Costello, Socialist Alternative England, Wales and Scotland
Electric cars charging in China - a 'future industry' or the fuse for a future crisis?

Can ‘Future Industries’ Lead China’s Economy Out of Crisis?

2026 marks the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). During the ‘Two Sessions’ (parallel NPC and CCPPC rubber-stamp meetings) in March, the 15th Five-Year Plan was formally ‘passed’.

  • /// Asia & Pacific, China, Economy
  • Zhu Gong, chinaworker.info
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Iran War Brings Economic Chaos – How Can Workers Fight Back?

Just under a year ago, John Healey, Labour’s Defence Secretary in Britain, visited a munitions factory. There, he made a speech extolling the virtues of a dawning new era of

  • /// Britain, Economy, War & Resistance
  • Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socialist Alternative (ISA England, Wales & Scotland)
Strait of Hormuz

Trump’s Reign of Terror on Iran Is Blowing Up the World Economy

“Coming on top of the Ukraine and tariff wars, the Iran war is shaping up to be the biggest stagflationary shock the world has seen in five decades.” (Kenneth Rogoff,

  • /// Economy, War & Resistance
  • Rob Rooke, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
Supreme court ruling on Trump's tariffs

Supreme Court Delivers Blow to Trump on Tariffs

The US Supreme Court has delivered a blow to Trump by declaring most of the tariffs he has imposed since “Liberation Day” last April to be unconstitutional. This has raised

  • /// Economy, United States
  • Tom Crean, ISA International Political Committee

Eight Months After “Liberation Day”: U.S. Economy Mired in Difficulties

Donald Trump declared that April 2, 2025 – the beginning of a massive trade war against friend and foe – was “Liberation Day.” “Reciprocal tariffs” were imposed on countries around

  • /// Economy, United States
  • Tom Crean, ISA International Political Committee and Socialist Alternative US

US-China Trade Summit: Did Xi Jinping Just Capitulate?

100 minutes was all that was needed for the two ‘strongmen’ heads of the world’s main superpowers to agree a one-year truce in their long-running trade war. The surprisingly brief

  • /// China, Economy, United States
  • Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info

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