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Guy Standing

Guy Standing is honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network. He is author of Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth (Pelican, 2019) and The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea (Pelican, 2022).
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Europe must unite to stop deep-sea resource grab

Guy Standing

The ban on deep-sea mining risks losing its traction—and Europe is divided on the issue.

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The left must embrace fiscal restructuring

Guy Standing

A raft of new instruments are required to address the rentier capitalism of today and the threat to the ecosphere.

Rescuing the concept of precarity

Guy Standing

The cause of the precariat isn’t helped by fuzzy thinking about who and what it is.

Building a progressive alliance in Britain

Guy Standing

Labour must abandon faith in one more heave for Westminster victory and embrace a progressive alliance, including for electoral reform.

Left Should Stop Equating Labour With Work

Guy Standing

It is intellectually excusable for those on the political right to want to restrict the meaning of work to labour, or income-earning activity. It is

The Five Lies Of Rentier Capitalism

Guy Standing

We live in the age of rentier capitalism. It is the crisis point of the Global Transformation, during which claims made for capitalism have been

Basic Income Pilots: A Better Option Than QE

Guy Standing

With much fanfare, Mario Draghi announced on January 22 that the European Central Bank (ECB) would be pumping €60bn a month into the financial markets

How To Combat Inequalities Produced By Global Capitalism

Guy Standing

Rising inequality is one of the most salient issues in global and European politics. Guy Standing writes that what we have witnessed in recent decades is not

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This episode of Eurofound Talks examines the evolving landscape of European working conditions, situated at the nexus of profound technological transformation.

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