The ‘gilets jaunes’ protests have shocked France, expressing a profound exasperation and anger that goes much deeper than frustration at a fuel tax. This is clearly a movement from below, of the people. But it is leaderless and thus far rejects affiliation with political parties. How far can it go? Is Macron’s government at risk? This isn’t the ‘start-up nation’ he dreamed of…
This is a talk held by Ann Pettifor on 15 September with the subject “Financial capitalism 10 years after Lehman Brothers (Inciting uprisings against the imperious government of finance capital)”, in Berlin at the Monarch […]
Adam Tooze joins me for part two of our discussion on his new book, ‘Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World’. We spoke about the Brexit vote, Emmanuel Macron’s EU reform agenda, […]
A typically interesting lecture by Wolfgang Streeck. Begins at 8:55
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