Category: economic justice

Malignant Growth

An obsession with economic growth is driving us towards catastrophe.

Liz Truss promises to double down on policies that have been completely discredited.

This could be how the fight against climate breakdown reaches critical mass.

The government’s attempt to hide a toxic waste disaster heralds a new bonanza for organised crime.

Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich?

Destroying the world’s living systems and draining its wealth are not perversions of capitalism. They are capitalism.

Brexit isn’t about Europe, and isn’t about the UK. It’s the outcome of a civil war within capitalism.

The UK’s economic and political life revolves around corruption.

For the sake of life on Earth, we should set an upper limit on the money any person can amass.

Governments have built a heaven for landlords and a hell for tenants. It’s time to change the system.

It is a weapon pointed at the living world. We urgently need to develop a new system.

Capitalism steals from the young and the unborn. It’s time for a new system, that respects their rights

Only the left can break the cycle of wealth accumulation.

Economic growth will destroy everything. There’s no way of greening it – we need a new system.

Some radical ideas for reshaping the economy.

We should use the political space being opened by the Labour resurgence to develop a new, participatory economy

Hope lies with a great, neglected sector of the economy, through which we can create a system that is neither capitalist nor state communist.

The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse

By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.

Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.