The left must confront the EU’s shortcomings and offer an alternative
Democratisation of Europe has to be front and centre of a progressive vision.
Compass
We need less corporate socialism for private sector landlords
The UK housing debate is increasingly focused on who the housing system serves: the nation’s needs or vested interests that seek to preserve tenure-based wealth inequalities.
Everyone agrees mutualism helps, but where’s the action?
Chris Nicholson looks at the agenda for co-operatives following Nick Clegg’s call for John Lewis capitalism.
With Plan B, we can have a good economy for a good society
One year on from the Emergency Budget and the Spending Review, it is becoming abundantly clear the coalition government’s austerity plan – Plan A – isn’t working.
A blueprint for real banking sector reform
After the failure of Project Merlin to introduce any real and significant reform of the banking sector, the call for the government to break up the banks is growing louder.
Time to muzzle the legal loan sharks
Lisa Nandy MP talks about the problems caused by the extortionate rate of legal loan sharks and discusses the End Legal Loan Sharks campaign.
Public unaware of just how much those at the very top are paid
Today is the official launch of an independent inquiry into high pay. The aptly named High Pay Commission has been established by Compass and is supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. To mark the launch the commission conducted private polling with YouGov which had some remarkable results.
Evan Harris: Progressive coalition in 2015 “if the arithmetic is there”
Former Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris has said his party and Labour need to be in a postion to form a progressive coalition after the next election.
Socialism is Democracy: Labour should accept AV
This week MPs have voted in support of a Bill which would mean that next May the country would get to decide on whether they want to stick with FPTP (first past the post) or switch to AV (Alternative Vote). While this may not have been the choice many of us who support a more proportional system wanted we shouldn’t underestimate its significance.
MPs call for end to loan sharking
This week the ‘End Legal Loan Sharking’ campaign working with Lisa Nandy, newly elected Labour MP for Wigan, have tabled an early day motion to bring attention to the issue of legal loan sharking and put pressure on the government to act.