Finance
Anna Baum: Resisting the gig economy: the emergence of cooperative food delivery platforms
Workers’ cooperatives are the future of work if we wish to escape predatory capitalism. Read here
Solutions
EU politics
Owen Jones: Labour must be bolder – only a wealth tax can defeat inequality
Political parties will have to find the courage to start increasing taxes on excessive wealth – of private citizens and of corporations. That is a good start. What can follow is suggested here by Owen […]
Finance
Tax Justice Network – New report: German-African research linking illicit and criminal financial flows with global poverty
That would be a bleak day for tax havens and financial institutions: “After our research it is obvious that Kenya and Zambia could do without development aid if they were able to tax justly and […]
Finance
Karen Rowlingson – Poor people are penalised for borrowing to make ends meet – a new alliance gives them another way
Many people on low incomes are paying dearly for access to credit. shutterstock.com Karen Rowlingson, University of Birmingham Michael Sheen has just launched the End High Cost Credit Alliance. The actor has supported various charitable […]
Fake News
Renegade Inc- Question Everything
Stine Jensen is a Danish philosopher who lives in the Netherlands, a country and people that are not afraid of big or new ideas. We travelled to meet Jensen to learn about the importance philosophy […]
Austerity
Thomas Piketty: Towards a Union in the Union
“The threat to the world today is not a trade war but a social war, conducted by means of aggressive policies of fiscal dumping which benefit the wealthiest and the most mobile.” Read here
EU politics
The Revival of French Left-wing Populism: Interview with Political Strategist Manuel Bompard
As we experienced in the campaigns of Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders the left has to revolutionise how it organises itself, voters, and its communications to overcome corporate media. In this lengthy interview Manuel Bompard […]
Climate Crisis
Aditya Chakrabortty: The small town that started a community revolution across Europe
Not only did the little community of Wolfhagen in Germany take over its electricity grid from the multi-national E.ON, but in the meantime has gone over to renewable energy. All of this in the hands […]
Climate Crisis
Aditya Chakrabortty – The Alternatives: German town takes power back from energy giants
Not only did the little community of Wolfhagen in Germany take over its electricity grid from the multi-national E.ON, but in the meantime has gone over to renewable energy. All of this in the hands […]
Economics
Positive Money – Why I Care About Sovereign Money
Neo-liberalism has been so successful, among other reasons, that most people do not understand economics. Austerity would never have been possible with well-informed citizens. Positive Money is trying to disseminate knowledge concerning money – something […]