Taxes on exploiting the commons - both exhaustible and non-exhaustible resources - could be used to give people basic financial security.
The Charter of the Forest was sealed 800 years ago today. Its defence of the property-less and of ‘the commons’, means the Right would prefer to ignore it - and progressives need to celebrate and renew it.
Old systems of wealth redistribution cannot combat the rise of rentier capitalism. We must find new solutions.
George Osborne's emergency budget reveals a government more concerned with moralising than any actual morals.
As 800th anniversary celebrations loom, it's time for the left to reclaim the Magna Carta.
The events surrounding the signing of Magna Carta 800 years ago may sound more familiar to readers than they might expect...
An extract from Guy Standing's new book, A Precariat Charter, from Bloomsbury, and available here.
The precariat, a class-in-the-making, is the first mass class in history that has systematically been losing rights built up for citizens. So, why is it the new dangerous class and how is it differentiated from other class groups in the evolving global labour process?
To arrest the drift to social engineering, the voice of those subject to the steering should be inside the institutions responsible for social policy. This means more than putting token ‘community leaders’ on boards. It must be a collective democratic voice. At present, we see the opposite.
