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David Ransom

David Ransom joined New Internationalist in 1989 and wrote on a range of issues, from green justice to the current financial crisis, before retiring in 2009. He was a close friend of Blair Peach, once worked as a banker in Uruguay and continued to contribute to New Internationalist as a freelancer until shortly before his death in February 2016. He lived on a barge on the waterways of England’s West Country.

His publications include License to Kill on the death of Blair Peach in 1979 and The No Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade. He also co-edited, with Vanessa Baird, People First Economics.

Articles by David Ransom

David Ransom celebrates the life of a president with a fondness for Liberation heroes, who used oil wealth to boost ordinary...
Finance is only the half of it. Britain is facing deep, society-wide crises, driven by an erosion of what represents the public...
With corporates swarming all over the trade justice brand, David Ransom says Fair Trade must stick to its founding ideals or...
David Ransom’s community of boat people were under threat, but their defiance has secured their future, for now.
Last-minute land-grab by London Olympics.
Of all the insurgencies around the world, among the smallest and least likely must surely be ours, writes David Ransom.
David Ransom knows of no better way to celebrate New Year than as the anniversary of the Zapatista insurgency in Chiapas, Mexico...
David Ransom reckons the financial crisis shows us clearly enough.
David Ransom reflects on riot, recession and recovery.
The phone-hacking scandal in Britain conceals more than it reveals about corporate power.
The Great Recession may have stunned the Minority World, but the Majority World has survived more or less unscathed. David Ransom...
The Radio NI podcast returns with this interview with David Ransom

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