Unite general secretary Sharon Graham lays out her vision for the future of the Left – from rebuilding power in the workplace to forging new international alliances to take on multinational corporations.

A Vitalité Health Network whistleblower has told The Guardian that previously healthy young adults suspected of having the neurological illness are experiencing rapidly deteriorating health and that the number of cases are growing.

2021 saw setbacks for the Left across much of the West, but victories in Latin America are a reminder that socialist policies continue to offer an alternative to a system in crisis.

The crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 across the planet has revealed all the contradictions, limitations and deficiencies of a neoliberal, predatory and unsupportive model of society.

Assuming no new disasters from the continuing COVID pandemic, the world economy will grow in 2022, but nowhere near as fast as in the ‘sugar-rush’ year of 2021. And by the end of this year, most major economies will have started to slip back towards the low growth, poor productivity trends of the Long Depression of 2010s, with prospects of even slower growth over the rest of the decade.