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Published in:ourEconomy: ExplainerIn 2008, we bailed out the banks. In 2021, we need to bail out the planetThe COVID-19 pandemic is not a random event. It is a symptom of a global economic system that is destroying the...
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Published in:ourEconomy: AnalysisIf we are to ‘live with’ COVID-19, we must decide what we really valueIt is wishful thinking to pretend we can return to pre-pandemic norms. The time has come to decide what kind of...
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Published in:ourEconomy: OpinionourEconomy editors’ highlights 2021Our lives may have been put on hold, but our planet’s crises – and our journalism – haven’t stopped
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Published in: ourEconomy: Analysis‘Joe Biden owes us’: How a struggling administration can win back votersBiden is rapidly losing support amongst core constituencies. But he can turn the tide by canceling student debt
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhy climate justice must go beyond bordersThe elite’s ‘solution’ to the climate crisis is to turn the displaced into exploitable migrant labour. We need a...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe world’s food systems are in crisis, and big agribusiness is at its heartPublic finance has a key role to play in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionIf Martin Luther King were alive today his radicalism wouldn’t be celebratedTo honor King we should uphold his critiques of militarism, capitalism and racism and remember him for what he was: a radical
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionOur ancestors worked less and had better lives. What are we doing wrong?In an age of both untold prosperity and existential crisis, it’s time to rethink work
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Published in: ourEconomy: Interview'Oil companies owe a debt to the lives destroyed'In this interview, Ken Henshaw explains why Nigerians are demanding reparations for over 60 years of Shell oil extraction
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTo win, progressives must tell more compelling stories and understand powerThe success of the gay rights movement reveals keys to creating a better future
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhy it’s so infuriatingly hard to get around Europe by trainTrain is one of the greenest and most pleasant ways to travel. So why is the European system worse now than it was...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionZuckerberg’s metaverse is a natural extension of capitalist extraction of our dataTo build a better future we need to confront Big Tech and reject the enclosure of the virtual
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisScotland is on the global frontlines of The Great Net-Zero Land GrabAs investors look to profit from the carbon-offset gold rush, demand for land is soaring. But letting Big Finance...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionPundits say British politics is undergoing a post-neoliberal shift. They’re wrongOn the contrary, the new capitalist variant may look much like the old
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisGreenland’s government bans oil drilling, leads indigenous resistance to extractive capitalismThe young indigenous leadership of Múte Bourup Egede is battling for green sovereignty in a time of climate collapse
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisIt’s time for the renewables industry to get dirtyThe industry must step up and beat fossil fuels at their own game. Here’s the plan
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionMark Carney likes to talk green, but he’s just another agent of the status quoThe former Bank of England governor is finance adviser at COP26 and rumoured to be running for Canadian prime...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionUS and Russia eye Europe’s energy crisis, doubling down on gasTo achieve energy stability, the EU needs to resist US and Russian efforts to sell more gas and fully transition to...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionBarbados: the small but mighty force for climate actionThe island’s first female premiere shows the connection between slavery, reparations and climate finance – and how...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTackling climate breakdown and delivering economic justice must go hand in handGlobal leaders will fail to address the climate crisis unless they confront its root cause: an unjust economic...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIt’s time to issue climate reparations to working-class people around the worldShared struggles, shared solutions: connecting communities from east London to Ogoniland in search of justice
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionSunak’s Budget will hammer many Brits. This is where the Left can interveneFar from the promised ‘high-wage economy’, many face wages that look increasingly paltry next to skyrocketing prices...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisFrom Paris to Glasgow: fossil fuel interests continue to block climate actionNew research reveals how six fossil fuel giants captured European climate politics