Economic crisis

Articles

Confronting the city by Mat Little (November 2009)

Mat Little profiles Maurice Glasman, dubbed the father of ‘Blue Labour’ and learns more about Glasman’s plans to clean up the City of London

Transitioning the financial crisis by Sam Mohun Himmelweit (June 2009)

While the financial crisis seems to have knocked the wind out of the international community and the British government’s environmental passion, one group is going from strength to strength, Sam Mohun Himmelweit reports

Meltdown politics by Larry Elliott (June 2009)

Larry Elliott welcomes Paul Mason’s new book Meltdown, because it takes forward the urgent task facing the left of developing a coherent alternative to neoliberalism. But Elliott urges us also to seek solutions to the climate and energy crisis simultaneously with the financial crisis

Feelbad Britain and the future of the left by Pat Devine, David Purdy (June 2009)

If the left in all its diversity is to develop the coherence to meet the new challenges posed by the implosion of the capitalist financial markets, then it needs to overcome the weaknesses that allowed neoliberalism to triumph in the 1980s. Here Pat Devine and David Purdy suggest strategic thoughts for the future, drawing from their analysis of what they see as the left’s lack in the past of a positive project for social change

Wanted: alternative banking system by Sargon Nissan (May 2009)

Nationalising the banks is a a good first step – but then what? What would a genuine people’s bank be like? Sargon Nissan of the New Economics Foundation looks at local, international and historical experience to find answers