Eurozone finance ministers meet today, Monday 16th February, to try and reach an agreement on how to deal with Greek debt. Fred Weston analyses the pressures facing Tsipras and the Syriza-led government: the pressure of the Troika to continue with austerity, on the one hand; and the pressure of the masses opposing further attacks on their living standards, on the other.

This week revelations have sparked an explosive scandal: HSBC, the UK’s largest bank, has been caught facilitating industrial-scale tax evasion, committed by some of its wealthiest clients. This latest episode has yet again shone a light on the murky world of capitalism and exposed the Tory politicians who defend their rich fraudster friends.

Newly released figures show that the Chinese economy in 2014 experienced its lowest economic growth since 1990. Such figures illustrate the beginning of the end for China’s ‘miraculous’ boom, as the reality of capitalist crisis is seeping through to the world’s largest exporting economy.