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As the COVID-19 crisis has further highlighted, local, accessible public services are essential to achieve a sustainable and democratic life.

“We want to reform capitalism and achieve sustainable, inclusive growth.” Celebrated economist Mariana Mazzucato argues that the opponents of growth are focused on the wrong target. The real problem is the kind of growth.

It is time for Europe to fulfil its desired role as a standard-bearer in environmental, social and gender-based protection.

As we think about building societies that can be ready for pandemics and resilient to shocks, basic income needs to be part of the picture.

Still to be ratified, the EU-Mercosur agreement could entrench centuries-old inequality between the two regions, as well as threaten the planet.

This interview on eco-social struggle in Latin America highlights the importance of social movements and warns against the illusion of change from above.

Abundance and Freedom by Pierre Charbonnier is an environmental history of ideas that links changing patterns in land use to political thought as it developed in the modern era.

From Brexit to climate change and coronavirus-induced economic shock, new issues cut across old divides. But how did they emerge? How is the centre ground made?

This May’s presidential elections in Poland have been postponed for now but dilemmas remain in a political scene where cynicism permeates voter choices and perspectives.

Thirty years after Eastern European states began their transition out of socialism, the outcomes of the process are still contested.