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Published in: ourEconomyRepaying the debt owed to Black people requires a democratic and reparative economyThe entire racial capitalist system that extracts labor and blood from Black lives must go.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionFinancialised care is crumbling. How can workers shape what comes next?By building power in the workplace, trade unions could be the crucial agent in de-financialising care and the...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe are doomed if, in the post-Covid-19 world, we cannot abandon non-essentialsInstead of growth and profit-seeking, a new economy needs concepts from Gandhi, Marx, the Zapatistas and the Kurdish...
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Published in: ourEconomyZimbabwe's new gold rushAmid COVID restrictions, families, youths and women are flooding into the sector. Policy interventions are needed to...
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Published in: ourEconomyCreating the digital commons after COVID-19The pandemic has accelerated the growth of the data economy and the digital giants who dominate it. It's time to...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionRegulators must crack down on big tech’s anti-repair practicesTech giants are using their dominant positions to shorten the lives of electronic goods. This is bad for consumers...
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Published in: ourEconomyPodcast: US election special #3 – the housing crisis (part 1)In the third installment of our podcast series on the US election, we explore the history of discrimination and...
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Published in: ourEconomyRemembering John WeeksA leading critic of economic orthodoxy who dedicated his life to building a better world.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionDeep Adaptation opens up a necessary conversation about the breakdown of civilisationMany scientists say that societal collapse is now a likely outcome. We must prepare for this possibility and not...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionIntellectual property must be transformed to put the public good before private profitsPatent enclosure by pharmaceutical giants results in many being denied life-saving treatments. It’s time for a new approach.
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Published in: ourEconomyourVoices podcast: Tom Steyer on Joe Biden’s new climate planFormer presidential candidate Tom Steyer discusses the future of the environmental justice movement in the US.
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Published in: ourEconomyOur hour with Michael BrooksThis week the US and international left lost a vital voice.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe may have to live with the coronavirus. And it's going to be painfulThe media want us to believe that we are on the path to recovery. But keeping a lid on the virus will exact a huge...
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Published in: ourEconomyCOVID-19 and the garment industry’s invisible handsThe pandemic has unveiled an opaque global supply chain that is propped up by exploited labour and a quagmire of...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe clash of capitalisms?We're constantly told that state capitalism is back. But these narratives are far from innocent.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe can have a golden future with a Green Recovery ActThe climate crisis cannot be addressed without a transformative reconstruction of the law.
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Published in: ourEconomyourVoices podcast: Vijay Prashad on “is capitalism racist?”In the latest episode of ourVoices, we ask historian Vijay Prashad if racial hierarchies are a necessary component...
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Published in: ourEconomyThe faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep AdaptationThe claim that runaway climate change has made societal collapse inevitable is not only wrong – it undermines the...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionDeveloping countries urgently need more policy space to fight COVID-19The international community must act to ensure that all countries can protect their people from the pandemic.
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Published in: ourEconomyAnother town is possible: community wealth building in the Basque CountryThanks to its unique economic model, the town of Oñati has a history of adapting successfully to economic disruption.