Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, April 2022
The news you didn’t seek this week…
Inequality
The UK’s tax system is regressive, rewards the wealthy and is in urgent need of reform
‘The UK tax system is regressive. It penalises workers, pensioners and their families. It rewards speculators and rentiers. It favours financial speculation over the hard graft of work’
Here’s how we can reset the economy and undo the damage done by neoliberal policies
‘It is only the visible hand of government policies that is condemning people to poverty and hardship.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, March 2022
The news you didn’t seek this week…
A failure to tame corporate power has been a disaster for society
‘We live in a world dominated by corporations who control the supply of food, water, medicines, energy, transport, savings, pensions, deadly weapons and most other things.’
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, March 2022
The news you didn’t seek this week…
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
Dawn Butler MP: ‘We can’t allow levelling up to be seen only in geographic terms’
‘If the Government is serious about tackling inequality and levelling up, it needs to act to increase the incomes of those in poverty’
Why tackling the class pay gap should also be a priority for progressives
People from working-class backgrounds who enter ‘elite’ universities and professions still earn on average £6,400 less than peers drawn from the middle-class.
Calls for a 6% increase to benefits to protect low-income families amid cost of living crisis
‘There has long been a profound mismatch between what those with a low income have, and what they need to get by’
