Just getting by is not enough
“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many …
Just getting by is not enough Read MoreTag: debt reduction
The deceitful image of money scarcity has no place in our society.
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership … not only between those who are living, but those who are dead and those who are to be born. Edmund …
The deceitful image of money scarcity has no place in our society. Read MoreTime to worry less (or better not at all) about the national debt and challenge the government’s economic record instead.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters. Antonio Gramsci In the week that the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced …
Time to worry less (or better not at all) about the national debt and challenge the government’s economic record instead. Read MoreWhat’s the choice?
Do we accept there is no alternative to our rotten economic system or demand something different? Let’s re-examine our values and use our imaginations to redefine how we work and …
What’s the choice? Read MoreLet’s not let the debt doomsters rule the roost!
Doing so will come at a huge human and planetary cost. In this week’s news the train crash economics of neoliberalism continues to thunder on. The government, still ensconced in …
Let’s not let the debt doomsters rule the roost! Read MoreWe pay for it by spending the money
We would like to share an article by GIMMS associate Alan Hutchison. This article was posted on his excellent website Matches in the Dark here. I use this as supporting …
We pay for it by spending the money Read MoreWe ignore the fate of our young people at our peril.
If we value a better future for all, the secret will lie in asking them what sort of world they want to live in and using their talents to create …
We ignore the fate of our young people at our peril. Read More“Whatever great meaningful and impactful work we are doing now is only the beginning, let’s keep moving forward for a better tomorrow.” – George Stamatis
According to the Office for Budget Responsibility, whose fiscal sustainability report was published last month, the news is bad. In its Executive Summary, it noted that the UK was on …
“Whatever great meaningful and impactful work we are doing now is only the beginning, let’s keep moving forward for a better tomorrow.” – George Stamatis Read MoreWhat sort of future do you want for yourself and your children? If it’s not more of the same, then it’s time for some radical thinking.
Three common neoliberal threads run through this week’s news: How will the enormous sums of money borrowed by the government to hold up the Covid-19 ailing economy be paid for? …
What sort of future do you want for yourself and your children? If it’s not more of the same, then it’s time for some radical thinking. Read MoreThe government’s spending promises have shown the need for austerity is a lie and a sham. It’s time to hold the government to account for its political decisions, not its fiscal prudence or otherwise.
In 2010 the newly elected Conservative government, using smoke and mirrors, turned what was a private debt crisis caused by global reckless greed and speculation by financial markets into a …
The government’s spending promises have shown the need for austerity is a lie and a sham. It’s time to hold the government to account for its political decisions, not its fiscal prudence or otherwise. Read More