The revolt against reason
Many have lost all trust in politics, Robert Misik writes. The protests against vaccination and anti-virus rules however turn this into madness.
Regularising migrants: Portugal’s missed chance
The pandemic has encouraged a re-evaluation of key migrant workers. A botched reform in Portugal has however revealed the pitfalls.
Structural solutions for structural inequalities—a trade union perspective
Responses to the pandemic have upended the idea that ‘there is no alternative’ to macroeconomic policies engendering widening inequality.
Getting to zero—what’s the beef?
Most livestock land will have to be repurposed as carbon sinks to remove the huge global emissions related to food production.
Reimagining care
Many regard caring for the Earth and others as a means to an end. Everything changes if we view care as an essential set of relationships.
Andersson’s agenda
Magdalena Andersson has been elected the first female prime minister of Sweden. Again.
Reversing the procurement race to the bottom
Companies must be denied contracts if they refuse to respect workers’ rights.
Raising the resources to open the European sluice-gates
The growing challenges facing Europe, beyond recovery from the pandemic, require a budget to match.
Towards gender-parity democracy
It’s time to talk about a new social contract—one that women desperately need.
Putin, pugilism and pusillanimity
Paul Mason finds the democratic world in the very disarray the authoritarian in the Kremlin has sought.
More ambitious European minimum-wages directive demanded
The European Parliament has upped the ante, beyond a European Commission proposal, on a minimum-wages directive.
Women in union leadership—not seeing the wood for the trees?
The feminisation of trade unions is percolating to the upper echelons. But organisational cultures still work against women taking leading roles.
Matteo Salvini’s League and the price of unbridled populism
The strength of populism is its simple message that ‘the people’ are traduced by an ‘elite’ linked to ‘foreign’ interlopers. That’s also its weakness.
The twin original sins of fiscal Europe
With the post-Maastricht fiscal rules in abeyance due to the pandemic, it’s time to address their fundamental flaws.
The right institutions for the climate transition
Global climate commitments will not amount to much without the institutional foundation the transition to a zero-carbon economy needs.
How it feels to be a rank outsider
Young working-class people may have an aversion to being categorised on the social ladder. But that doesn’t make the ladder go away.
Globalisation, telemigrants and working conditions
The globalisation of service work may not bring the major job losses feared—but it could weaken workers’ power significantly.