Category: economic justice

Lost in the 21st Century

Consumerism has broken its promise. Perhaps now we can begin to reconnect.

The blind pursuit of economic growth stokes a cycle of financial crisis, and wrecks our world.

The justifications for extreme inequality have collapsed. But only the Green Party is prepared to take the obvious step

The point of current housing policy is to sustain a system built on injustice.

As the food queues lengthen, the government is giving our money to the super-rich.

The market has not solved the problem of power: it has simply given it another name.

Why do we ignore the most blatant transfer of money from the poor to the rich?

Who do Bono and the ONE campaign really represent: the very poor or the very rich?

There is no point at which those who accumulate money become satisfied.

Our record-breaking petition has been dismissed as a stunt by the minister it targets. But it has a serious purpose.

The line that separates the public from the private sphere is arbitrary, but fiercely policed.

17 years, and the phone companies still haven’t sorted out the issue of conflict minerals

Why we need land value taxation.

How neoliberalism trashed your life, but made the super-rich even richer.

Robbing the poor, trashing the natural world: Europe’s farm subsidies are an obscenity.

A potent myth is being used to justify economic capture by a parasitic class.

An animation calling for economic democracy.

Why have the Year Zero policies of neoliberalism not been abandoned?

Here’s why the government’s proposals on executive pay won’t work – and why we need a maximum wage.

The poorest taxpayers are subsidising the richest people in Europe: and this spending will remain uncut until at least 2020.