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Published in: Home: OpinionIn this age of chronic uncertainty, we need a basic incomeOPINION: Millions in the UK are facing insecurity, impoverishment, stress and ill-health. Radical change is needed
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Published in: Home: AnalysisIt’s 5 years since Grenfell. Here’s what we’ve learned from the inquiry so farHousing journalist Peter Apps tells openDemocracy about the corporate and state failures that led to the fire
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionSunak’s Budget will hammer many Brits. This is where the Left can interveneFar from the promised ‘high-wage economy’, many face wages that look increasingly paltry next to skyrocketing prices...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEcuador’s new loan program: a tale of two IMFsThe IMF as it presents itself during the annual meetings is not the same IMF as the one putting together loan...
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Published in: Home: OpinionIreland’s Greens have betrayed their voters and the planetIn February, Ireland voted Left. So why have the Greens put the establishment back in power?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionIn Davos, my only message was to abolish billionairesSomehow a long-time Kenyan equality activist got invited to the World Economic Forum. This was her message.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionVoters deserve a media that tells them the truth about inequalityThe public is being let down by journalists who lack the knowledge or will to give them vital information about the economy.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy this election is suffering from amnesia about austerityThe Tory narrative about its economic record defies reality.
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Published in: ourEconomyVIDEO: interview with Owen Jones'We can’t allow this to be the Brexit election, it has to be an election about the injustices that led to this...
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Published in: ourEconomyBad debts make good profits - but what are the social costs?The financialisation of non-performing loans across Europe raises grave concerns over debtors rights.
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Published in: ourEconomyIt's time to tax for gender justiceUnfair tax systems hit women and girls the hardest. We need to make corporations pay their share.
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Published in: Shine A LightEXCLUSIVE: Arrests of suspected undocumented migrants soar in Sheffield, the UK’s first City of SanctuarySince Theresa May launched the “Hostile Environment” South Yorkshire Police have arrested hundreds of Sheffielders...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe G7 was a joke. Three degrees warming isn’tWe need a European Green New Deal that delivers justice on a scale to match the threat of environmental breakdown....
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Published in: ourEconomyStudying capitalist dystopias, and avenues for changeThe big questions being discussed at a big conference in Manchester.
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Published in: 50.50Austerity drives populism and is a frontal attack on the rights of womenWomen are disproportionately dependent on public services. They can’t afford austerity, and it’s time that...
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Published in: Shine A LightBudget 2017 offered little. We demand moreDay after day we witness the dangerous reality of austerity. #Budget2017 failed to alleviate the pain. But there is...
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Published in: Shine A LightAusterity stories you won’t hear about in today’s BudgetRhea needs a home. She is a full-time single mother of three living in destitution on the brink of homelessness. Yet...
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Published in: Shine A LightHousing activists stand up to dodgy landlords and council bulliesThe Grenfell tower fire forced a public debate on housing inequality in London. Tenants have long been at the mercy...
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Published in: Shine A LightResidents challenge council plans to demolish their homesCentral Hill housing estate in South London is threatened with demolition. Residents are challenging the...
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Published in: Shine A Light‘How do we get out if there’s a fire?’ In Yorkshire, G4S tenants live in fearSecurity company G4S housed six families with babies and toddlers in a fire-trap hostel in Halifax.
