NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work
Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social
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The event was organised together with @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social Programme on Cohesive Capitalism & Alternatives to Capitalism research group. You can also see more on the ideas for economic democracy that were explored in the lecture in this article that I wrote for @lsebr.bsky.social
I spoke on Sweden's 1975/6 "Meidner plan" for wage-earner funds, Isabelle on her bicameral model democratising work & recent report to the Spanish government on democracy at work (reportondemocracyatwork.org/en/home/), & Mat on the work of @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and need for a "productive state"
It was great to have this as a Ralph Miliband lecture at the LSE a few weeks ago, where @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me spoke about the possibilities for economic democracy
Here. We. Go. 🇭🇺💪
It’s a beautiful day for regime change in Hungary!
Over the past weeks I wrote a few pieces making sense of what’s going on, how we got here & what’s at stake. I thread them here.
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Karl Marx just took Adam Smith to his logical conclusion. Adam Smith is in "our tradition" too, like Jesus of Nazareth is a prophet of Islam
A screenshot of an FT article, which reads “Her landlord, the Poppy Factory veterans’ charity, told the FT it was evicting “a small number” of tenants to bring properties up to market rate before the new rules on rental increases came into effect.”
Something exceedingly British about being evicted by your landlord, a veterans’ charity called ‘the Poppy Factory’, which somehow has a property portfolio and is kicking out tenants in order to jack up rents before the new renters’ rights come into force
"... economic democracy should be better seen not as a “third step” in democracy but as more like a third pillar. Without the implementation of economic democracy, the foundations of social democracy and political democracy are likely to remain unsteady and may ultimately be undermined. "
Fifty years ago this year, one of the most powerful labour movements in the world adopted an audacious plan to transform the ownership structure of a capitalist economy in an electoral democracy.
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What should plans for economic democracy look like today? And what is the best way to pursue projects for economic democracy in practice?
Join Dr Robin Archer and @neilwarner.bsky.social on Monday to mark fifty years of the Meidner plan.
Larry Fink waxing lyrical about the magic 1950s, when American capitalism was oh so dynamic, but leaves out the bit about the heavy repression of finance within and across borders that underpinned it.
In person and online format. 'Is a democratic economy possible?' @neilwarner.bsky.social
Description of March 30th economic democracy event at LSE
Is a democratic economy possible? What could it look like and how might we achieve it? Come to LSE on March 30th to discuss these questions and more with @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me.
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And Official IRA/Workers Party is also 1/3 via Democratic Left & Irish Labour (albeit allowing for very generous interpretation of ruling party of power)
There have always been obvious flaws with pointing to Denmark as a model for different parties, operating under different electoral systems, but this seems quite pertinent.
The public sphere is this tweet now coming with dozens of replies from blue tick accounts offering their thanks and congratulations
A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.
NSF Update through March 13, 2026
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It's lovely to read through the list of groups supporting the March 28th march against the far right
Join also at a lunch and seminar the next day March 31st in Sir Arthur Lewis Building B.07 in LSE (1pm to 2.30) to hear more about the new expert report on economic democracy to the Spanish government
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It's in Sir Arthur Lewis Building B.07 at the LSE. No need to register before
The seminar will be the day after this connected lecture
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Key recommendations of International High-Level Expert Committee report on democracy at work
You can find the report here. It's a very extensive (over 400 page) study of the conditions and models for economic democracy, including these key recommendations
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A new report for Spain's government shows exciting paths forward for democracy at work. Come to this @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social "Alternatives to capitalism" seminar to hear about it from @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, who led the report's committee, and @benbraun.bsky.social, report co-author
Wrote about the Iran crisis, electricity costs, and why clean power is the right strategy - but not enough.
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Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.
Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.
A far right protestor holds up a sign reading "we are Jeffrey Epstein"
There was a far-right protest against mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York yesterday and well, that's quite the sign
I'm out of words here
This is a social democrat.
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”