Wage repression, inequality and economic stagnation
Analysis suggests that capital has become far too strong to sustain a robust economy and that an increase in labour bargaining power should be welcomed rather than resisted.
Neoliberalism
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Globalization, democracy and Robert Kuttner
By decommodifying health services, pensions, the right to unions, and other social services, they showed that with political will in these aspects of life the power of the market could be and should be broken if real democracy is to be achieved.
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Shifting to the centre is no way to fight right-wing populism
The problem with this narrative that elections are won by appealing to the mushy centre is that it fails to come to grips with the electoral appeal of Donald Trump and other right-wing populist.
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Pierre Trudeau, the Liberals and the social democratic left
Aivalis’ argument that Pierre Trudeau was a “Constant Liberal” is subtle, and acknowledges that organized labour and the NDP were not always consistently advocating policies well to the left of the Liberals.
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Towards a new Canadian trade strategy
Development of a new trade agenda should certainly be on the agenda of labour and the left.
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Does Trump signal the end for free-market capitalism?
A necessary prerequisite for restoring Western democratic capitalism, and even more so social democracy or democratic socialism, is to force the genie of finance back into its bottle.
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The case against privatization and P3s
At this moment of deep political convulsion throughout the West, the fight against privatization is part of a broader struggle against the economic logic that has led to corrosive inequality and underpinned the bankrupt neoliberal economic paradigm.
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Rising right-wing populism and the failure of global economic governance
Despite ultra loose monetary policy, business investment is very low due to inadequate overall demand.
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Brexit vote underlines need for a reformed globalization model
It is to be hoped that political forces across Europe are up to the challenge of making the EU a force for economic and social progress as seemed to be the case in the 1980s.
