Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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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
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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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