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Dot com disgrace: Amazon must end poverty pay in 2014

28 February 2014

Ed Miliband has been blazing a trail for living wages, calling out the private sector on the poverty pay which keeps people reliant on state support. There are many major companies which this applies to, but one in particular deserves...

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Confronting tax evasion is not enough: We need to reform taxation entirely

21 February 2014

One of the most urgent tasks facing a progressive government is reform of the current system of taxation. The reasons for reform are clear: the present system is inequitable, socially regressive and becoming more so; it is inefficient, due to...

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Public service outsourcing: Putting people first

20 February 2014

Giving a private seminar in Westminster this week Jon Trickett said: On Monday, Ed Miliband said that the times we live in demand “a new culture in our public services. Not old-style, top-down central control, with users as passive recipients of...

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Time for Labour to build a truly democratic economy

20 February 2014

The very ideas of ‘guild socialism’ and ‘distributism’ have been far and few between since the early 20th century, yet the case for equality and common ownership is stronger than ever. We have always been presented with a false choice...

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European elections: Is Britain heading for the naughty step?

20 February 2014

If students of communications were looking for an example of a successful, long-running misinformation campaign, they would have to look no further but to the unfortunate alliance between Eurosceptics and the British tabloid press. Together these two have, apparently successfully, built...

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Labour’s public service reforms must pass the social justice test

19 February 2014

The realisation of social justice is one of the overarching goals of the labour movement. Some have perhaps taken their commitment to a little too far (who can forget David Miliband’s famous proclamation that ‘social justice gets me up in...

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