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Global Issues
Slumlands — filthy secret of the modern mega-city
08 August 2011

Across the world, slums are home to a billion people. The rich elite want the shanty towns cleared,

International Politics
The feeling on the street is that Greek society is crumbling at the edges
27 June 2011

Paul Mason, economics editor of BBC2’s Newsnight, presents an eyewitness report from Athens

Culture
Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest
12 May 2011
Ideas
Diss capital
06 January 2011

Karl Marx, in London for a book signing, stumbles off the Eurostar and straight into an interview wi

International Politics
Workers against Wall Street
01 November 2010

President Obama’s “shock and awe” statism is failing. On the eve of the midterm elections, the US ec

Books
Them and Us: Changing Britain – Why We Need a Fair Society
04 October 2010
International Politics
Beyond the door marked “Austerity”
21 May 2010

Europe has become the weak link in the global economy. In the next phase of the world economic crisi

International Politics
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy
21 January 2010

A Nobel Prize-winning American economist and a cynical English novelist agree on one thing – it’s ti

Books
Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street
03 December 2009

Everything glitters but nothing is gold in this colourful account of the collapse of Lehman Brothers

Global Issues
Thinking the crisis
26 March 2009

­The G20 is in danger of becoming wrapped up in a futile argument between fiscal stimulators and re-

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