Tag: socialism

Financial Regulation ‘Has Failed to Protect the Public Interest’, City of London Economist Says

20 August 2020|Sputnik|Mohamed Elmaazi

Bringing the banking system under public control may ultimately be the only way to prevent the ongoing cycle of “scandal after scandal” in the financial sector, long-time economist Michael Roberts tells argues.

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Venezuela under assault: socialism, imperialism and oil

2 February 2019 | MEDIA DIVERSIFIED| Mohamed Elmaazi

In recent years the Venezuela government has found itself in conflict with right-wing opposition forces, but also with genuine grassroots organisers who want to carry the “Bolivarian revolution” forward. Thus democratising policies under Chavez have stalled. Mohamed Elmaazi details the steps that have led to ordinary Venezuelans being caught between a rock and a hard place.

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