Supporters of the free market crow that foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa has grown more than 30-fold since 1980. This, they say, proves market deregulation works.
As the global financial markets went into meltdown on Monday, US general David Petraeus came knocking at Gordon Brown’s door.
The shockwaves from the US credit crisis have started to crash into Russia’s economy.
Gordon brown and Alistair Darling are not alone in throwing good public money after bad private debts.
Perhaps the most sickening moment in Gordon Brown’s speech to the Labour Party conference last week came when he boasted of plans to introduce a "migrant charge for public services".
World leaders are nowhere near achieving their goals on reducing global poverty, the United Nations (UN) admitted last week.
Millions of children in Britain are being "failed by the system" and abandoned to a life of poverty, according to a new report released this week.
The current economic turbulence is leading large numbers of people, students and workers alike, to question the system and look for an alternative to war and capitalism.
Would any sane person bail out a bank in order to take control of its debts but not its profits? No. Yet that’s exactly what George Bush, Gordon Brown and governments across the world are currently doing.
There has been a steady stream of warnings that Britain faces an energy crisis and blackouts this winter. This has boosted the idea that we need to build more nuclear power stations.
The chaos on the money markets has impacted into the building of the London 2012 Olympics – and the government will expect us to pick up the bill.
There is a renewed attack on abortion rights in Britain. Anti-abortionists are still trying to hijack the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill by tabling amendments attacking a woman’s right to choose.
