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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

Their crisis, our challenge by David Harvey (March 2009)

In a far reaching interview with Red Pepper, David Harvey argues that the current financial crisis and bank bail-outs could lead to a massive consolidation of the banking system and a return to capitalist ‘business as usual’ – unless there is sustained revolt and pressure for a dramatic redistribution and socialisation of wealth

The world after Keynes by Stuart Holland (January 2009)

Keynes is back in fashion, but his policies did not give to the state – at all levels – the leading role in investment that is now necessary, argues Stuart Holland. What is required is a radical rebalancing of relations between economic and social power, led by democratised state institutions

What kind of crisis? by Hugo Radice (January 2009)

Hugo Radice delves through the layers of the financial crisis and lays out the challenges that any adequate alternatives have to meet

Crisis for Christmas by Hilary Wainwright (January 2009)

Rebuilding banking by Leo Panitch (January 2009)

Leo Panitch argues that what is needed is for the banks to become a public utility

Pressing the limits by Robin Blackburn (January 2009)

Robin Blackburn says that publicly controlled social funds could play a central role in a transition from a very unequal and crisis-prone world

Technological alternatives by Michel Bauwens (January 2009)

Michel Bauwens points to the importance of the possibilities for co-operative, peer-to-peer production opened up by new technologies

The green road to socialism by Kate Soper, Martin Ryle (January 2009)

Martin Ryle and Kate Soper say that now is the moment to stop the economy killing the planet

If not capitalism, what? [intro] by  (January 2009)

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