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Lehman Brothers and histories of the present
We must make sure we counter the narrative that the 2008 crash was ‘an aberration’ writes KEITH FLETT
Photo traders work in the product options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange in New York. Home prices had sunk, and foreclosure notices began arriving. Layoffs began to spike. Tremors intensified as Lehman Brothers, a titan of Wall Street, slid into bankruptcy on September 15, 2008
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
IT IS 10 years since the demise of Lehman Brothers caused a worldwide financial crisis, the impact of which is still being felt today.
The anniversary is being widely marked but only within a very narrow framework of analysis.
The late historian Eric Hobsbawm argued at a meeting of the Communist Party Historians Group in the 1950s that they “must become historians of the present too.”
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