Political and Economic Crisis

These are dangerous and unpredictable times. Ten years after the global financial meltdown the world economy still isn’t fixed.

Last night’s attack on people leaving Manchester Arena was truly horrific. Reports so far indicate 22 have died (including 12 children between 8 and 16) and another 59 are seriously injured.

2007: 9 August, PNB Paribas shocks financial markets by freezing three financial funds, comprising “complex assets” of largely fictitious capital built around mortgages.

The electoral trick – over and over again

Another May Day where imperialist tensions threaten to spread existing wars or stir up new ones. We are faced with a spectre of much wider and more destructive conflicts than in recent decades.

The African National Congress (ANC) which has ruled South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994 is once again in crisis.

The 1957 Treaty of Rome was a milestone on the European bourgeoisie’s road to create a unified imperialist pole that would keep up with the two dominant imperialist powers at the time: the USA and