Tax justice—a crucial tool to advance human rights
On Human Rights Day, the world looks a lot different through a lens of social and economic rights.
European Commission takes the lead in regulating platform work
The draft directive published today is already breaking the united front of the platform companies.
EU borrowing—time to think of the generation after next
Financing post-pandemic recovery via EU borrowing has proved remarkably straightforward. So why keep it temporary?
Regulating digital work: from laisser-faire to fairness
The proposal for an EU directive on platform work about to emerge is welcome, yet insufficient—and no substitute for national action.
The ‘freedom’ to work for nothing
Irregular pay is one of the criticisms levelled at platform companies. But some of the time there is no pay at all.
Monitoring of workers’ personal data via entrance control systems
Preventing 1984-style monitoring of workers requires a rebalancing of workplace power, based on legal regulation and human dignity.
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.