Russia’s path toward a better political capitalism
Branko Milanovic explains the possible thinking behind Vladimir Putin’s recent clouded constitutional announcements.
Politics
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World Economic Forum: towards sustainability with neoliberal recipes?
The World Economic Forum has recognised intellectually that Scandinavian social models offer an alternative to rising inequality. It just can’t accept this ideologically.
Class struggle à la droite
Populism is boosted by economic crises, but its roots are cultural.
Telling a different story: the media and ‘just transition’
Continuing our series on ‘just transition’, Natalie Bennett argues that the media have an ethical responsibility to foster public understanding.
Just transition: replacing fear with hope
Just transition works and there are already many lessons learned. The most important is that workers must see a positive pathway ahead.
The fierce urgency of COP26
Adam Tooze stresses that the critical COP26 conference later this year hinges on European unity and radical leadership.
The Green Deal and a disordered world
The European Green Deal is a ray of hope but it faces two huge challenges: it must go global and the finances must be found.
Building a progressive alliance in Britain
Labour must abandon faith in one more heave for Westminster victory and embrace a progressive alliance, including for electoral reform.
Leaving Europe
Paul Mason turns in his Social Europe column from postcapitalism to the theme of post-Brexit Britain.
What to do about economic inequality?
Economic inequality has burgeoned as income from capital has risen faster than growth. Time to change the owners of capital.
Collective bargaining and social dialogue: part of the solution
There is no real alternative to social dialogue, collective agreements and the voice of workers—even the OECD agrees.
Material concerns about posting of workers
Legal arguments over the EU posting of workers directive raise the issue of which is to prevail: workers’ rights or unregulated markets?
Germany’s Zeitenwende of 1989-90 and its contemporary European reverberations
Sepia images of the historical sweep via the fall of the Berlin wall to the reunification of Germany, and so of Europe, look much clearer than today’s turning point.
Europe and the tragedy of Israel/Palestine
Amid the intractable struggle in Israel/Palestine for the moral high ground of legitimate victimhood, Europe has a historic responsibility.
The ranks of the working poor
Despite rising employment in many western economies, poverty is not declining. What’s wrong with labour-market policies?
Corbyn’s electoral defeat: myths, causes and lessons
Why did Labour lose so heavily in the UK? Partly it was 'Brexit', partly Corbyn.
The green agenda—a social and geopolitical tool
The European green agenda is key to saving the planet—but it could also save an enlightenment-based multilateral order from nationalist irrationalism.