An extract from Steve Fraser's book on the end of the age of acquiescence and the rise of the populist right in America.
Occupy Wall Street, the ongoing demonstration-cum-sleep-in that began a month ago not far from the New York Stock Exchange and has since spread like wildfire to cities around the country, may be a game-changer.
BY Steve Fraser 18 October 2011
To those who remember the history of 1929, the current crisis and rising public anger bears a painfully familiar ring. It happened once before -- a vital chapter in the ongoing story of how an old regime dies and a new one is born.
BY Steve Fraser 10 February 2009
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