The World Economy in the 2020s - time is running out

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9 October 2025

Michael Roberts will analyse the current phase of the world capitalist crisis and Britain’s place within it. The major economies of the world are stagnating in the 2020s. Poverty rates are rising and inequalities of income and wealth are increasing. Global warming is accelerating. And now Trump has launched a trade war against everybody to 'make America great again'. These are multiple crises for capitalism in the 21st century; But can capitalism find a way out?