Welfare and Social Issues

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.

To prevent the crystalisation of existing hierarchies and oppression, techno-scientific advances must keep freedom, equality, and sustainability as guiding principles.

Why is basic income gaining grassroots support as an idea? What methods can basic income groups use to build a following?

A Green New Deal is good, but an ecofeminist one is even better.

Interest in basic income is growing in Scotland and across the United Kingdom. Can we expect trials from the Scottish government and where might the momentum lead?

The MeTooEP movement shone a light on sexual harassment in European Parliament. Despite important progress, much remains to be done.

If progressives want to fight the movement against so-called ‘gender ideology’, they need to break with neoliberalism.

A conversation on how to rework the political economy to end inequality and challenge the “business as usual” attitude of the EU and Italy’s ruling classes.

Jean-Claude Juncker’s outgoing EU Commission emphasised a fair approach to trade – how far do the steps it has taken go towards protecting workers?

Trials in recent years, an advanced national debate and a new progressive majority in Parliament make Finland a key context to follow for basic income developments.