The line that separates the public from the private sphere is arbitrary, but fiercely policed.
Category: economic justice
Smart Phones, Dumb Companies
17 years, and the phone companies still haven’t sorted out the issue of conflict minerals
A Telling Silence
Why we need land value taxation.
Bang Goes the Theory
How neoliberalism trashed your life, but made the super-rich even richer.
The Fat of the Land
Robbing the poor, trashing the natural world: Europe’s farm subsidies are an obscenity.
Romnesia
A potent myth is being used to justify economic capture by a parasitic class.
After Capitalism
An animation calling for economic democracy.
Scorched Earth Economics
Why have the Year Zero policies of neoliberalism not been abandoned?
The Great Pay Robbery
Here’s why the government’s proposals on executive pay won’t work – and why we need a maximum wage.
Big Farmer
The poorest taxpayers are subsidising the richest people in Europe: and this spending will remain uncut until at least 2020.
The Corporate Welfare State
Despite the crisis, it’s still socialism for the 1%, capitalism for the rest.
The Self-Attribution Fallacy
Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.
Wealth Destroyers
The Corporation of the City of London has harmed you more than you know.
Sounding the Deeps
If this analysis is correct, a Great Depression is all but inevitable.
More Cuts Please
The government is burning the money that could save public services.
Out of the Ashes
Now is the time to start planning for a new economy, not dependent on growth.
How the Billionaires Broke the System
The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement.
What We Are For
The movements opposing the British government need a set of aims: here’s my attempt at a first draft.
Response to Robert Peston
Does the BBC’s business editor need a crash course in tax?
Stripped Bare
Shocking new financial manouevres by the British government show who it’s really working for.