Real solutions to the crises fuelling the far right needs demand public investment. The super-rich must pay their share.
Tax on billionaires—political vaccine against the far right (socialeurope.eu)
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It was as if the ghost of Karl Polanyi hung over political leaders and top government officials as they plotted the social future of Europe in Vilnius this week. Behind their backs, the Hungarian political economist would have understood their efforts to address the ‘polycrisis’ into which four decades of deregulated markets had plunged the continent—and their focus on socially re-embedding those markets to point the European ship towards calmer waters.
There is no single future for the world of work—and it is up to policy-makers to shape it.
The future of work: getting ready for tomorrow today (socialeurope.eu)
For some time, most multilateral financial institutions have urged developing countries to borrow commercially, but not from China. Now, borrowers are stuck in debt traps with little prospect of escape.
US Fed- Induced World Stagnation Deepens Debt Distress | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)
The ultra-rich will happily march us into a dictatorship if we let them.
Opinion | The American Billionaires Who Fell In Love With Fascism Are Not the First | Common Dreams
On the historical relationship between peace and social justice
Social rights in Europe—in need of a new impulse? (socialeurope.eu)
The five largest landowners in America, all white, own more rural land than all of Black America combined.
Land Theft: The Alarming Racial Wealth Gap in America Today ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com)
Comparative research on healthcare financing options shows revenue-financed healthcare to be the most cost-effective, efficient, and equitable, while all health insurance imposes avoidable additional costs.
Finance Healthcare, Not Insurance Premia | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)
The European Social Charter has often been the poor relation of the European Convention on Human Rights. That may be changing.
European Social Charter: more relevant than ever (socialeurope.eu)
Mounting evidence shows that this funding is going to expensive out-of-reach private hospitals and clinics in low- and middle-income countries that are widening healthcare inequalities, exacerbating poverty and gender-based discrimination and violating human rights. Far from advancing progress towards Universal Health Coverage as governments have committed, this form of development finance is undermining it.
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