Category: economic justice

Stunt Man

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.

Despite the crisis, it’s still socialism for the 1%, capitalism for the rest.

Intelligence? Talent? No, the ultra-rich got to where they are through luck and brutality.

The Corporation of the City of London has harmed you more than you know.

If this analysis is correct, a Great Depression is all but inevitable.

The government is burning the money that could save public services.

Now is the time to start planning for a new economy, not dependent on growth.

The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement.

The movements opposing the British government need a set of aims: here’s my attempt at a first draft.

Does the BBC’s business editor need a crash course in tax?