Banks: neo-liberals beat the regulators
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“After the financial crisis”, in 2008, noted John Authers in the Financial Times of 16 July, “it was beyond argument that existing regulations had failed, and would need to be rethought.
Crisis opening in 2007
Neo-liberals win out
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“After the financial crisis”, in 2008, noted John Authers in the Financial Times of 16 July, “it was beyond argument that existing regulations had failed, and would need to be rethought.
Debating the crisis and socialist answers
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Vasilis Grollios reports on the Toronto conference of the academic journal Historical Materialism, held on 13-16 May.
Europe-wide cuts drive: Europe-wide workers' response needed
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The cuts programme is Europe-wide. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Greece are all making big cuts in social provision.
Questions and answers on the deficit, the debt, and the cuts
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Q. Are cuts in public services, welfare benefits, and public sector pay, jobs, and pensions unavoidable?
The Crisis, Part Two
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On 7 June the German government, which faces no acute government-debt crisis, announced £66 billion cuts.
London meeting debates Greek and eurozone crisis
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The debate at a 2 June meeting in London on the crisis in Greece and the eurozone was framed by a forceful opening speech from Costas Lapavitsas, a professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Is neoliberalism dead?
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Review of The Enigma of Capital: and the crises of capitalism, by David Harvey (Profile Books) and Meltdown: the end of the age of greed, by Paul Mason (Verso).
Eurozone crisis: for a workers' Europe!
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A general strike on 5 May against planned cuts stopped Greece, and brought onto the streets of Athens the biggest demonstration there since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974.
To stop cuts, seize control of the banks!
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The Tory shadow Chancellor George Osborne must think he pulled off a coup on Monday 15 March. He got Jeffrey Sachs - a real economist, an architect of Russia's "shock treatment" after 1991, but who has since distanced himself from extreme free-marketism - to co-author an article with him for the Financial Times.