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The economy is tipping into a deflationary crisis with a worsening debt crunch, falling wages and prices, and increasing reliance of fraudulent economic data.

In France, 2024 kicked off with a major farmers’ movement that had been brewing for several months. Similar protests have taken place in many other European countries.

Port Talbot is a town reeling from the news that Indian multinational steel company, Tata, intends to close its two existing blast furnaces with the loss of around 2,800 jobs.

A new report on newly minted billionaires published by UBS — a Swiss bank favoured by the super-rich found that far from being ingenious “wealth creators”, most billionaires inherited rather than earned their wealth.

Stopping Austerity Through struggle for higher wages and better public services

The recent guilty verdict against Sam Bankman-Fried, the arrogant, billionaire crypto-swindler, is another old-fashioned story of corporate greed and conmen endemic to the capitalist system.

Although they insist that the administration’s economic policies — marketed as “Bidenomics” — have been a huge success, the public isn’t buying it. In one recent poll, only 28% of Americans said they were satisfied with the economy.

As the weight of the cost of living crisis worsens, more people are struggling to find affordable housing.

A recession, especially a deep recession, will be a disaster for working people. It will mean the return of mass unemployment, people losing their homes, and the growth of poverty.

Yet another report (the fifth, at last count) sparked by recent scandals at the Irish broadcaster RTÉ was published recently after off-the-books slush funds were used to pay for jollies for RTÉ management and the corporate clients they were chasing for advertising revenue.

The crazy, anarchic capitalist system gets in the way of the many alternative ways to protect the environment and provide good jobs.

Pakistan has been swept by mass protests, as people across the country have expressed their anger over the hikes in electricity bills enforced by the unelected caretaker government led by Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar.

Property collapse deepens while concerns rise over slow and limited government intervention

Opening up with the onset of the pandemic in 2020, ISA has deemed this period the ‘Age of Disorder’, one of heightened inter-imperialist rivalries, climate catastrophe, economic malaise, increased workers’ militancy and revolution and counter-revolution.

Around the world, inflation is a scourge for hundreds of millions of working people, cutting real wages and dragging living standards down.

Economic crisis, rampant inflation and the effects of the war and the the influx of refugees are adding to the economic and political strains in Central and Eastern Europe caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and increasing instability in many countries.

Guizhou province’s distress signal opens new front in country’s debt meltdown.

Khan’s posing as ‘anti-establishment’ and an opponent of the military-capitalist elite and the hated Sharif government has therefore struck a deep chord in society. He is by far the most popular politician in Pakistan today, which strikes fear into the heart of the military establishment given the scheduled upcoming October elections.

Volkswagen Canada is to build a massive new electric vehicle (EV) battery plant. The question is: will somewhat cleaner technologies provide the magic bullet for both economic growth and reversing runaway global warming?

The business press has been sounding the alarm about the “debt ceiling,”. A recent article in the Financial Times discussed the possibility of “financial Armageddon” and featured a picture of a mushroom cloud.

The AI threat to livelihoods is spurring a growing anti-AI mood to resist automation. However the conflict is not between AI and humans, but between workers and the bosses who use AI to exploit workers harder, deskill their jobs, or lay them off in the name of profit.

May Day will be the 13th day of strikes and demonstrations called by the union coalition against Macron and his pension reform. Every poll highlights the overwhelming opposition to the reform and the support for the social movement.

On Wednesday, April 19, over 100,000 workers started their strike with pickets at least 250 workplaces.

This 18 April, exactly 43 years since defeating the racist colonial Smith dictatorship, Zimbabweans are more than used to being let down by the old freedom fighters now turned looters and killers.