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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe basket police are watching you
Hard up families need higher benefits, not restrictive vouchers and smears about the feckless poor.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Covid-19 and the surge of the antiracist movement in France
Under the impulse of the Justice and Truth for Adama committee, the fight against racism may be at a turning point in France.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“We were the people who started talking to each other”: unexpected solidarities under forced devolution
An account of recent experiences of community organizing in Tottenham, North London, from conversations and an...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionBoris Johnson's plan to 'build back better' is an attack on democracy
The prime minister wants to dismantle England’s planning system and hand over more power to private developers. He...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionTo dodge the worst of COVID, we must oppose the British government
We can assume that incompetence will continue and that the economy will trump health – unless we all keep the pressure up.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTo ‘build back better’, we must tackle executive pay
New research has revealed how much CEOs earn compared to their colleagues – and the results aren’t pretty.
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Published in: Home: OpinionWatch: How Dominic Cummings' contempt made us feel
Director Mark Cousins has turned Fintan O'Toole's words into a powerful statement of public anger: 'This Violation'...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionA New Deal for rentiers: whose side is Boris Johnson really on?
Whereas Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed financiers and speculators, the Prime Minister is one of their biggest cheerleaders.
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Published in: openJustice: OpinionPolicing during the pandemic: an insight into racism in the UK
The policing of lockdown and the Black Lives Matter protests demonstrates the insidious nature of racist policing in the UK.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionBeneath the bluster, Boris Johnson’s ‘New Deal’ offers nothing new
The UK needs real change, not more of the same under a different name.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionShared parenting in Greece: three cheers for the Mitsotakis cabinet
“This coming autumn, the Greek right-wing government will be introducing shared parenting. This is a major...
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Published in: ourEconomyThe case for a digital non-aligned movement
The world wide web is on a crash course that could lead to permanent fragmentation. Only coordinated international...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWere Labour’s antisemitism failures really Corbyn’s fault?
A leaked Labour report seems to provide evidence that it was in fact Corbyn’s opponents who delayed the disciplining...
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Published in: HomeChanged My Mind: a Jewish Labour activist on why he left the party
“Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is complicated because it is not what people traditionally imagine anti-Semitism...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionCities versus multinationals: who will win our post-COVID future?
Municipalities and social movements have gained new energy from the crisis. Can they win against corporates set on...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionYou can't understand the world without learning about empire
As academics, we teach about empire, slavery and colonialism because without them, the world makes no sense.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Coronavirus and the crisis of globalisation: dangers and answers
“We must demonstrate the superiority of democratic governance over authoritarianism, bringing about a set of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionMy Jewish roots taught me that you can’t avoid the past
Moving forward requires accepting who you are
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy does England vote Tory?
Progressives will never dominate English politics without confronting Churchillism.
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationExclusive: Egyptian billionaire’s firm’s £1.5m export deal unveiled days after Tory donation
Unatrac gave the Conservatives £125,000 in January. Six days later the firm's taxpayer-backed deal was announced....