By Dave McKee It sure didn’t take long for Hurricane Trump to make landfall. Less than a month after the US election, the President-elect announced his intention to impose 25-percent tariffs on all products from Mexico, China and Canada. Trump’s feverish flip-flops during his first term in office are the stuff of legend, but that […]
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Originally published by Socialist Voice, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Ireland – https://socialistvoice.ie/ The airways and newspapers have been full of discussion around the “housing crisis”, its nature and possible causes and effects. What was clear from the recent local election results is that the majority of those who voted did so
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By Ryan Nisly. As Hurricane Helene brought damage to the Southeastern US last week, it highlighted the need for the United States to provide aid to, and invest in, itself. This problem has shown itself in the past through natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and through preventable disasters such as the Flint, Michigan water
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by Dr Robert Daly China, Russia, Norway, and Italy have each launched emergency programs to encourage families to have more children and increase their birth rates. In Russia, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that population decline is “one of the major issues [Russia] has to face now,” reported RT May 19.1 According to the
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Subhead: The Worker opposes bailouts for rich depositors. Photo: Unemployment Center, Massachusetts By Dr Robert Daly, PCUSA Political Economy Committee March 22. The ongoing banking crisis that felled three US banks and Switzerland’s Credit Suisse in the past 12 days slowed today the rate of increase of the interest rates controlled by the Federal Reserve Board
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By Robert Daly Will China’s attempt to establish an alternative monetary and trade system with a Petro-Yuan be fast enough for it and its allies to escape the danger of a Western financial collapse? Over the past eight years, Russia, China, and India have been slowly moving to establish alternative trading institutions. This movement began
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“When I look at a map of the civil war in 1919, I always wonder how from this spot around Moscow and Petrograd a new empire could re-emerge. Yes, and its name was the Soviet Union” December 30, 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Rossa Primavera News
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American civilians continue to struggle with high inflation, failing infrastructure, and underfunded social programs, all while the US government remains fixated on starting and waging wars abroad As temperatures drop across Europe, Ukrainians in black-out-induced areas are being told by their government that they have only themselves to blame should the energy difficulties continue. Freezing
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By the PCUSA Political Economy Committee. Inflation for urban wage earners hit 9.1% in July, the highest rate of inflation since 1979 when Paul Volker jacked up interest rates to astronomical heights to curb an earlier inflation crisis. Now the Federal Reserve is trying to apply the same medicine to kill inflation again, only this
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As gas prices, groceries, utilities and rent continue to increase at an alarming rate, the average worker is the one bearing the additional costs and consequences of one of the most nefarious and volatile capitalist-imperialist structures to be conceived. In addition to the failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden Administration has graciously allocated
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