Tag: economy
Not all in this together
Colin Lawson finds the chancellor’s spring statement inflicts more pain
Tories put politics first on economy
Dennis Leech says Labour needs to do more than promise to balance the books
Supply chain chaos? Blame the immigrants!
Is the suppression of migration the price that has to be paid for the transition to a high wage economy? Don Flynn argues it rather sets the scene for a long period of economic depression that will impact on all workers
Brexit damage compounded by Johnson incompetence
The UK economy faces a triple threat – two of which are of the Government’s making, says Paul Teasdale
Labour lacks ambition and radicalism on the economy
Look to Biden's fiscal stimulus and more, says Dennis Leech, who finds Labour’s alternative lacking
A socialist recovery from Covid-stricken capitalism?
Bryn Jones considers partial prescriptions for human survival
Debt myths
Dennis Leech says Labour has to ditch the pursuit of balanced budgets or become irrelevant
For a caring economy
Hana Abid reports on an innovative prospectus for a gender-equal economy rejecting a focus on growth
The myth of the money markets
As the pandemic underlines the failure of neoliberalism, Richard Murphy argues the left should embrace Modern Monetary Theory and an alternative debt-financed New Deal
Government deepens divisions
Paul Nowak outlines a green trade union response to the threat of mass unemployment
The road to an equitable and sustainable economy
Dexter Whitfield exposes the perils of privatisation underlined by the Covid-19 pandemic