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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionSocial security needs a massive boost to help people through this crisis
A million more thrown into the benefit system. 14 million in the UK already poverty before coronavirus struck. It’s...
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Published in: HomeGenocide is not an Essential Service
"We are doing this to save humanity…. If we destroy the Earth, the Earth will recover; … we won’t. The Earth doesn’t...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationCleaners forced to work in empty Houses of Parliament
MPs slam Commons authorities, say outsourced low-paid workers are being put in ‘unnecessary danger’
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Published in: Home: InvestigationDemocracyWatch: Pandemic power grabs all over the world
Sign up for our weekly email round-up of attacks on democracy during the coronavirus crisis.
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Published in: Home: OpinionShaping a new social contract through the pandemic
The actions of governments, business, investors and civil society in response to COVID-19 will shape our futures.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe UK and US need job security, not just job subsidies
British and American workers have among the worst worker rights in the western world. This needs to change, fast.
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Published in: HomeWe need to develop our empathy muscles in these troubled times
" I have lived with my partner for over forty years and as a psychotherapist I am embarrassed to say that my empathy...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The applause for society’s vital workforce rings hollow. Give them a raise instead
They deserve support in their fight for living wages and working conditions.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Angela Merkel urged to put European solidarity over German interests
500+ lawmakers and academics call for entire eurozone to share the cost of the pandemic with the use of euro bonds.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionQuarantine in Venezuela: the war against society by other means
The response of the Chavista state to Covid-19 goes no further than repeating its authoritarian patterns of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?COVID’s borders: between peer-to-peer surveillance and the “common good"
The vocabulary of war contributes to concealing the differential impact of COVID, which has just found its first...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionI made a fortune predicting the last crisis. I fear for what’s about to unfold
We must urgently start discussing who we want to shoulder the cost of the coronavirus crisis, or the future could be...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Authoritarianism masking incompetence? The case of the Republic of Cyprus
Authoritarianism, left unchecked to shape the public discourse, can self-propel and legitimise itself, diverting the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow is Venezuela when COVID-19 is about to hit hard?
Amid political deadlock and ongoing humanitarian and human rights crisis, and facing an increased hassle from the...
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Published in: openMovementsSocial movements in Corona times: new constraints, new practices
Movements compensate for the lack of collective actions in public spaces, laying the groundwork for future...
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Published in: openMovementsCommunity spaces in India: constructing solidarity in pandemic times?
Can the initiatives we see pave the way for the exercise of participatory democracy, of solidarity as a way of...
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Published in: HomeThe impact of COVID-19 is all down to inequality
Coronavirus must change the neoliberal rationale, and rescue the social contract between the welfare state and the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCovid-19: Why is it so important to protect indigenous territories?
In the face of the rapid advance of the Covid-19 pandemic around the world, it is worth asking who are among the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Opinion‘Protect the NHS’ must not be another excuse to blame patients
Scaring people away from using Britain’s National Health Service is a dangerous and toxic message - and now it’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?COVID-19: on the epistemic condition
Indigenous cosmologies have always argued that we must treat the world as an interconnected, living organism with...