Building economies based on solidarity and decent work

In this joint paper by Christian Aid and the Center for Economic and Social Rights, Kate Donald, Ignacio Saiz, Sergio Chaparro et al discuss what the world would look like if economies were based on human rights. In sketching the vision of a rights-based economy (RBE), they argue that its primary purpose would be to guarantee the material, social and environmental ...

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung organizes an international series of online events between late March and May 2021 under the title “Farmworkers: Considered essential but exploited”. This series of three online events seeks to highlight the experiences of farmworkers and shed light on their working and living realities. The series will discuss, among ...

The new article "Economics and climate emergency", written by Barry Gills and Jamie Morgan, is free available.In this essay authors provide introductory comment for the collection of essays on Economics and Climate Emergency.The purpose of this collection of essays in Globalizations  is to critically address the relationship between economics, especially mainstream economics, though with ...

The video "The Feminist Economy: learning with the women farmers" has just been released on YouTube.The video is produced by SOF Sempreviva Feminist Organization, in partnership with RAMA - Agroecological Network of Women Farmers of Barra do Turvo.The video shows the Feminist Economy based on the contributions from women of the feminist and agroecological movement, from communities and quilombos ...

This article published by Fian-Indonesia shows the current peasant situation in Indonesia and calls upon new measures against the global COVID-19 crisis.The Corona virus disaster causes economic crises all over the world. Moreover, this virus attacks the economic centres of the world, such as China, the United States, the European Union, Japan, and South Korea. The world is entering the ...

This article was posted by ongroei on the initiative for post-covid-19 in the Netherlands. Five policy strategies for the Netherlands after the Covid-19 crisisOn Saturday 11 April a group of environment and development academics released a Manifesto for post-neoliberal development planning in the post-Covid-19 future.The Manifesto was published by the Dutch national newspaper ...

This is a collection of articles published by The Next System Project called Elements of the democratic economy, which distills the current political landscape of theoretical exploration and real-world practice into concise summaries describing each of the institutions involved, assessing their transformative characteristics and potential impact, and providing on-the-ground examples and a sense of ...

This article was published by the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt and goes about the economic crisis generated by the novel coronavirus. A public health crisisThe coronavirus pandemic is a serious public health problem and the human suffering caused by the spread of this virus will be enormous. If it massively affects countries of the Global South with very fragile ...

In this episode of the "David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles" , Prof. Harvey explores what the continuity of endless capital accumulation means to the continuity of human life.To hear the podcast, please visit: https://player.fm/series/david-harveys-anti-capitalist-chronicles/human-life-vscapital-accumulationPhoto ...

The Spotlight on financial justice, published by the Citizens for Financial Justice, reflects their interest on informing, connecting and empowering citizens to act together to make the global finance system work better for everyone. Rising inequalities between the global North and South, the economically privileged and the marginalized, between different genders and racial ...

The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies is the process of convergence of different local and international movements from the alternative economy, which we call transformative economies.The main objective of this process is to bring together social movements and projects which share the will to put people and the environment at the centre of the economy, to put an end to an ...