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10 years on from the crash, what have we learnt?
We can expect the financial sector giants to do everything in their power to stop Jeremy getting into Downing Street, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
The Lehman Brothers headquarters building at Canary Wharf in London
In the third of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE
The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
NICK WRIGHT recalls one man’s journey from student revolutionary to Labour grandee – part of a wider world of working-class militants and communist activists whose lives shaped a generation and who should not be forgotten
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
It’s 10 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers created the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, but governments have failed to make changes necessary to prevent a similar collapse.
Back in the 1930s, the US government responded by introducing new laws that made it illegal for the local high street banks to make risky gambling decisions.
Today, if anything, the financial sector is growing more powerful and wealthier than ever. More and more of the wealth created across the world is going into the pockets of the richest 1 per cent and via methods that mean they seldom pay any tax. The result is that across the Western world inequality is getting dramatically worse and the lives of ordinary people are being squeezed. It is the anger of ordinary people responding to this injustice that fuelled the votes to elect Trump and to take Britain out of the EU.
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