Opinion
Rampant corporate power is destroying our democracy
People have a choice: we can have rampant corporate power or democracy, but not both.
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How we can reverse the financialisation of the care sector
The care sector is only one example of how financialisation - the turning of society to serve finance, rather than seeing finance serve society is a leader, in the wrong direction
Privatising Channel 4 could lead to ‘money flowing out of the country and into pockets of multinational corporations’, say MPs
Privatisation could also result in the channel losing its publisher-broadcaster status which means that all revenues are invested back into the production of its content.
Create three million employee-owners to reduce inequality now, says think tank
Are new ownership models, that give people a stake and a say in the economy, the best way to genuinely ‘take back control’?
Why are companies so rich and states so poor?
The state is broke, and democratic government ineffective, because big business no longer pays tax.
Christmas is coming and EDF is getting fat
Andy Atkins details Friends of the Earth’s plans to take on EDF’s massive profits off the back of public cash.