Our letter demanding the Eau's Irish presidency to recuse itself from digital and fiscal (tax) files is now out at the @financialtimes.com Check it out and help us disseminate it! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Cecilia Rikap@ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ireland's questionable track in tax and digital regulation has led us to demand the Irish EU presidency to recuse itself from related files. Signatories: @mazzucatom.bsky.social Shoshana Zuboff @isabellamweber.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @nsrnicek.bsky.social & 50 more Sign below

NEW ISSUE: Renewal 34.2 Ft. @kirstymcneill.bsky.social, @daimoon.bsky.social, @demofuturist.bsky.social, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @sellottie.bsky.social @anaopp.bsky.social, @dmk1793.bsky.social, Sean McDaniel, John Chowcat, Carla Rocavert, and Hannah McHugh renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

political compass but it's whether you think Manchester is a success / failure and whether that's because of neoliberalism / leftism

Absolutely huge crowds in Belfast to reject the far-right, paramilitarism, racism and border violence. A loud message to the politicians who pandered to violent paramilitary groups this week

Just saw that the first piece from our special issue is already out: Factions of asset-based capitalism: a historical typology, by @melindacooper.bsky.social See here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Will write a thread on the SI and each of the papers once they're all out!

Philipp Golka@pgolka.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Incredibly happy and relieved that our special issue Asset Struggles co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social is now accepted for publication at NPE! More on the issue soon. For now: a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has been involved in this over the past few years – you are the best!

This has happened at least a dozen times on my count: whenever a 'ceasefire' is announced Israel follows it up with 'we will continue bombing and prevent civilians from returning home' I don't know how many more times this needs to happen for everyone to understand that Israel does not care

Re-sharing this essay by @neilwarner.bsky.social that we published in @renewaljournal.bsky.social in January, because it's one of the sharpest things I've read about how the left should respond to the current form of far-right politics, and its analysis has really shaped my thinking:

Anti-oligarchy as anti-fascism

03 Renewal 33.3-33.4_Warner03 Renewal 33.3-33.4_Warner.pdf95 KBdownload-circle Progressive responses to the rise of the far right have often been confused due to a tendency to overemphasise its dis...

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Communities have the ideas to transform high streets but need access to the spaces. Through our Community Led High Street Innovators project, Make CIC explored High Street Rental Auctions with Wirral Council + built this interactive tool to help others unlock buildings 👇 buff.ly/lLorPxJ

Which Legal Power Could Save My Local Building? (Quiz) — Platform Places

Explore routes like High Street Rental Auctions, Community Right to Buy, Compulsory Purchase Orders, Community Asset Transfers and Meanwhile Use, for unlocking community assets.

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NEW ISSUE: In this special extra edition of Renewal, @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, and other members of the Tribune Group of Labour MPs set out paths to repairing Britain's broken economic settlement. renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

I'm writing a book on material wellbeing since independence and quite chuffed with these two epigraphs from Cumann na nGaedheal for the opening chapter

Without minimising the dire results for Labour, it’s extraordinary how chipper the Tories are. They’ve lost 500 seats from a low watermark, lost historic major councils to Lib Dems and Reform, show no signs of recovery in the esp LD areas they need to win. But MPs seem to think it’s going well.

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

Israeli forces storm the funeral of Aws al-Na’san, 14, and Jihad Abu Naim, 32, in Al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah. The two were killed a day earlier when Israeli settlers, backed by an Israeli reservist, opened fire near a school in the village during an attack that also wounded others

I have a new piece out in the new issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, identifying the history of industrial and economic democracy in Thatcherism and identifying lessons for social democrats. renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

here's one of those insane, horrible connections of the contemporary era the primary liaison between the UAE and the genocidaires in the RSF over this time has been Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan the owner of Manchester City football club

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"The UAE has long denied supporting the RSF, which has been fighting Sudan's regular army for three years. El-Fasher's fall was one of the most brutal chapters of the conflict, which has led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis..."

NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

Volume 34, Issue 1

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

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It was great to have this as a Ralph Miliband lecture at the LSE a few weeks ago, where @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me spoke about the possibilities for economic democracy

Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future | LSE Event

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Here. We. Go. 🇭🇺💪 It’s a beautiful day for regime change in Hungary! Over the past weeks I wrote a few pieces making sense of what’s going on, how we got here & what’s at stake. I thread them here. 1/x brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/can-hungar...

Can Hungary Vote Out Its Autocrat?

Musings on the politics & political economy of Orbánism ahead of the April 12 election

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Karl Marx just took Adam Smith to his logical conclusion. Adam Smith is in "our tradition" too, like Jesus of Nazareth is a prophet of Islam

open all borders. stop having them be closed 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@dov.bsky.social · 4mo ago

*annoying pedantry voice* adam smith said very little that a socialist would actually disagree with anyway

Something exceedingly British about being evicted by your landlord, a veterans’ charity called ‘the Poppy Factory’, which somehow has a property portfolio and is kicking out tenants in order to jack up rents before the new renters’ rights come into force

"... economic democracy should be better seen not as a “third step” in democracy but as more like a third pillar. Without the implementation of economic democracy, the foundations of social democracy and political democracy are likely to remain unsteady and may ultimately be undermined. "

LSE Business Review@lsebr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fifty years ago this year, one of the most powerful labour movements in the world adopted an audacious plan to transform the ownership structure of a capitalist economy in an electoral democracy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

Fifty years ago this year, one of the most powerful labour movements in the world adopted an audacious plan to transform the ownership structure of a capitalist economy in an electoral democracy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

What will it take to revive economic democracy 50 years after the Meidner plan? - LSE Business Review

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Meidner plan, Neil Warner looks at the prospects for reviving the “third pillar” of democratisation.

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What should plans for economic democracy look like today? And what is the best way to pursue projects for economic democracy in practice? Join Dr Robin Archer and @neilwarner.bsky.social on Monday to mark fifty years of the Meidner plan.

Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future

6.30pm Mon 30 March | Professor Isabelle Ferreras, Matthew Lawrence, Neil Warner, Dr Robin Archer | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Larry Fink waxing lyrical about the magic 1950s, when American capitalism was oh so dynamic, but leaves out the bit about the heavy repression of finance within and across borders that underpinned it.

In person and online format. 'Is a democratic economy possible?' @neilwarner.bsky.social

Neil Warner@neilwarner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Is a democratic economy possible? What could it look like and how might we achieve it? Come to LSE on March 30th to discuss these questions and more with @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me. www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...

Is a democratic economy possible? What could it look like and how might we achieve it? Come to LSE on March 30th to discuss these questions and more with @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me. www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...

There have always been obvious flaws with pointing to Denmark as a model for different parties, operating under different electoral systems, but this seems quite pertinent.

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 5mo ago

Since the last Danish election, the largest individual movement of voters has been from the Social Democrats to the Green Left Meanwhile, the Danish People's Party have gained votes from other right-wing populist parties and the three parties in government yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

The public sphere is this tweet now coming with dozens of replies from blue tick accounts offering their thanks and congratulations

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